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[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

I don’t want to be that guy, but ‘s is for possession, or when it is short for “is”, like what’s or how’s being what is and how is. Just a plain s for plural, never ‘s. I don’t get how so many people get this wrong, it’s not that hard.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think you are wrong in this case. For example, many people would write X's when talking about multiple instances of the letter X. As another commenter said, there are exceptions and acronyms can be one of them.

But I upvoted you anyway because us pedants need to stick together.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Really? Damn, I did not that. English is a weird language.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 days ago

The cool and/or awful thing about language (not just English) is that if enough people many the same mistake, it's no longer a mistake!

[–] farcaller@fstab.sh 7 points 1 week ago

OP should have vibecoded the title, chatbots know how to use apostrophes.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

There is technically a rule that allows for 's, and acronyms are one of the possible uses