I am editing a book for someone and, while it is my job to clean this up, I would like to take a moment to step outside this immediate task and IMPLORE everyone this might apply to to stop using apostrophes to indicate plurality. Thank you in advance.
Also what about in my stupid made up alien language where apostrophes are sprinkled about like glitter? The proud K'than'gas's many languages use apostrophes to indicate group possession!
@mentallyalex
It's a newish thing, I edited magazines for a long time.
Your sentences look fine to me. And I don't go on facebook a lot anymore and it vastly reduces my exposure to shitty thumbtyping of my friends' friends in Iowa.
OH ALSO don't use "interesting" as a modifier with the intent of having it describe the thing you're talking about because it doesn't. "Interesting" is the passive voice of modifiers.
Turnip brought this up and I can't change any official brand names but I will still, in passing, always refer to The Go-Go's as The Go-Gos, typically with some kind of explicit declaration that The Go-Gos kick every ass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSF9JD3dU-Y
As new things pop up, I might just turn this into a #writing thread of, I don't know, Handy Rules of Shit to Not Do When Trying to Write Good or something. Let me know if you would find that useful. Or if I should shut up. I can do both pretty easily.
AT LEAST PASSIVE VOICE HAS SOME LIMITED RHETORICAL VALUE FOR ELIDING AGENCY. "INTERESTING," BY CONTRAST, IS A LINGUISTIC SKIN TAG THAT SHOULD BE FROZEN OR BURNED OFF.
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