Plural's

[Jean-F]

I have no wish to start WW3 here, but I can’t be the only one who is amazed at the amount of nouns in these posts that have miraculously become apostrophised when they become plural, e.g. car’s, door’s, window’s, cat’s, instead of cars, doors, windows, or cats.
I’m no English major, but it looks so obviously wrong when you see it

 

[Jean-F]

If you can understand what someone is trying to convey, or at least get the sentiment, then the grammar and syntax (they normally go hand in hand when people are going all Oxbridge over some non major thing) is secondary.

Perhaps so, but to see, “I should have took the dog’s for a walk”, as opposed to
“I should have taken the dogs for a walk” grates a bit on me.
FWIW, I didn’t go near Oxbridge, the pinnacle of my education was passing the 13 plus, and going to a grammar school, where I was taught regular english, but grammar wasn’t rammed down my throat.

Apostrophe abuse should be an actual crime.

Agreed.

Fully agree. The number of people that can't write properly is too damn high. Apostrophes are really easy to understand.

When it comes to nouns, they are possessive.

It's is a conjunction. Its is possessive.

It’s not difficult, is it?

it should be a ban for 24 hrs

Insufficient, a month at least, after maybe two warnings.

Moose.
Meese.
Mooses.

Reminds me of Mr. Jinks, the cat who said of mice Pixie and Dixie, “I hate those meeces to pieces!”

 

[Jean-F]

Wooooah there buddy.

The rules of the road state a flash is to inform you they are proceeding and you are to stay put!!

On motorcycles the flash button is even labeled the "passing light".(can you imagine the chaos if we actually used it to indicate an overtake?)

You've interpreted the rules 100% wrong!

But somehow you've never noticed your error was so g

I don’t know to which rules of the road you are referring, unless it’s the Highway Code, and I haven’t looked at that for sixty plus years, and you seem to me to be too intelligent a person for me to argue with, but it certainly doesn’t work that way with truckers, (as in if I flash, it means stay where you are).
Hopefully Scania will back me up if he sees this, but if two truckers are heading toward each other on a road, and there’s e.g. a parked car, meaning one of them has to give way, the one who cedes the road will flash his headlights once.
This means, and every trucker knows this, come on through, I’m giving way to you.
There are other vehicle light signals that truckers use, which car drivers may have seen but not understood.
If a truck overtakes a slower truck, as soon as the overtaking truck is far enough past the the one being overtaken, the overtaken driver will flash his headlights, this means that you are far enough past me now, you can safely move to the left.
The truck that has been flashed will wink his tail lights twice to say “thanks pal”, or some drivers will flash their hazards once or twice to say thanks.

 

[Jean-F]

wait a minute did someone change this thread title for a laugh or has it always been wrong

I wouldn’t bet the farm, but I was the OP, and I’m reasonably sure that I typed Plurals.

 

[Jean-F]

sidelights on and off is old school ...it's a left right left right, or maybe right left left of the indicators nowadays, or whatever the speed of your stalk allows

can't remember who but think it was an instructor said using the indicators to thank for getting 'flashed in' was 'false indication' (his words, not mine) and technically an offence!

and yeah any flashing of lights in any vehicle (to me) means they're letting you go and they're not going to move...although not everyone follows that and you're left sitting there flashing the lights and the other person not moving

No argument, I quit truck driving in the very early eighties, I’m pretty sure that it was two winks of the tail lights for thank you then, but things change so quickly, e.g. there was a time when if you saw a cop car in a lay by, you flashed other truckers and gave them a thumbs down, with the advent of speed cameras, that soon fell by the wayside.
ETA oops, pun unintended.