Prepoceros

I don’t read Slashdot, but John does, and today he showed me one of the funniest grammar smackdowns I’ve ever seen. In a thread about New York City and Apple having similar logos and something happening and/or not happening blah di blah, one poster said

actually I hope it goes the over way. Apple needs to be shown that not every apple is their’s.

The two logo’s don’t look anything like each other. NYC’s is missing the giant bite for starters.

And a few comments down someone else replied

Damn, dude. An apostrophe doesn’t mean “Look out, here comes an S!”

Love it. Quick and awesome.

[The relevant bit of the comment thread is here, though John says it might show up differently on your screen than it does on mine if you read Slashdot and have fiddled with your preferences.]

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P.S. The grammar nazi in me feels compelled to point out that the witty second commenter has grammatical errors in his signature (who/that). My laid-back side, on the other hand, feels that this detracts from the joke somewhat and has thus squashed this observation into a postscript.

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