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>Produced better results than expensive graphics coolers even though its lighter and cheaper.

Could you tell me where I could buy a lighter and cheaper? If you wouldn't mind letting me know, it'd be great.

At the same time, I'd like to recommend a purchase for the editors (this is their responsibility). This is it.

Now let's get an apostrophe expert in here to clean things up.

...right here

Why people don't say PCs instead of using the universal pluralizer 's

Ahem

Er, well, it looks like the one I previously linked to provides some handy information, but not it's/its specifically. So the editors should have this one as well: Bob the Angry Flower's Guide to it's/its

The Slashdot editors need to print this out and tape it to their monitors: Bob the Angry Flower

http://www.angryflower.com/itsits.gif

WTF?

Kill or capture all Islamic terrorists? Sure - just like each retaliatory strike by Israel against Hamas prevents violence rather than inciting more of it.

Indeed. In the words of Bob The Angry Flower: how much do you gotta BOMB people to get 'em to quit HATING you?

I threw in the "yo's"...average Joe's use that today.

Good job getting down with the people. I see that you also emulated their punctuation habits, seeing as how Joes don't know how to use the apostrophe, either.

Are we just putting apostrophes anywhere we damn well please now? It's bad enough when people think "it's" is a proper possessive (it isn't), but now you're just sticking them places to your heart's content?

The Angry Flower can help you. See rule 3. http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

Not a chance.

DVD's in drugstores ?

Please read this.

Get your's today!

Please read this.

http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

This should explain things a little clearer - http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

For those of you looking to improve your punctuation I'd highly recommend Lynne Truss's "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" (ISBN: 1861976127). It's a surprisingly funny book that's equally applicable to British and American English, although it's written with a British slant as Lynne's from London. If you've ever struggled with the humble apostrophe -- as the Angry Flower so eloquently observed that many people have -- and wish you knew the full rules of its use, this book's for you!

But there are correct rules of grammar which you have followed in the creation of your post. Saying there is no correct English is ridiculous. Why else would someone make fun of the "All your base are belong to us" translation or create this comic strip if the English language was a free-for-all?

You are missing the bigger picture in life. And that is that spelling and grammer only matter up to high school unless you are an English major or a Tech writer. Otherwise you get credit for best effort as long as it makes sense.

Ummm.. No.

There are still plenty of folks in corporate management who consider reading bad grammar, spelling, and/or punctuation akin to the sound of fingernails scraped across a chalkboard. They consider correct writing and speaking a sign of intelligence, and the lack of it a lack of it. Of course, non-native English users get a legitimate break, but anyone coming out of an accredited degree-granting institution should be able to write a letter free of spelling, grammar and punctuation errors.

Those are the folks who decide whether you get hired, promoted, fired, etc.

And yes, I am frequently tempted to carry a permanent marker around with me to correct graffiti, ad copy, etc. Seeing poor spelling is bad, but poor punctuation kills me.

ObBob:
http://www.sablesys.com/apostrophes.gif
http://angryflower.com/worlds.gif
http://angryflower.com/destro.gif

You are missing the bigger picture in life. And that is that spelling and grammer only matter up to high school unless you are an English major or a Tech writer. Otherwise you get credit for best effort as long as it makes sense.

Ummm.. No.

There are still plenty of folks in corporate management who consider reading bad grammar, spelling, and/or punctuation akin to the sound of fingernails scraped across a chalkboard. They consider correct writing and speaking a sign of intelligence, and the lack of it a lack of it. Of course, non-native English users get a legitimate break, but anyone coming out of an accredited degree-granting institution should be able to write a letter free of spelling, grammar and punctuation errors.

Those are the folks who decide whether you get hired, promoted, fired, etc.

And yes, I am frequently tempted to carry a permanent marker around with me to correct graffiti, ad copy, etc. Seeing poor spelling is bad, but poor punctuation kills me.

ObBob:
http://www.sablesys.com/apostrophes.gif
http://angryflower.com/worlds.gif
http://angryflower.com/destro.gif

looks like you need some help

I'm surprised the nitpicking failed to link to this...

As long as we're bitching about bad grammar and punctuation, here's one of my faves:

http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

Derek

The grandparent was fine. However you, sir, are a monkey.

Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe.

Damn. I don't remember putting that in there.
I prefer Bob the Angry Flower's Guide to the Apostrophe, myself.

But that story was submitted after being awake for 20-something hours, so I hereby blame my sleep-deprived state for any spelling and grammatical errors found. If you think the story itself is nonsensical, well, I blame Society. :-)

To wit.

The verbal abuse is just an added bonus.

And I must be losing my edge for inserting that apostrophe...

http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

This sounds like a job for...

Bob The Angry Flower!

May Bob have a word?

Mac's

See this quick guide to the apostrophe.

as someone in here earlier pointed out all the cat's are out of the bag.

Its != it's

Thank you.

First sentence:

Citing user requests to coalesce it is disparate services, Google today released it is new personalized homepage service.

Or, just read Bob the Angry Flower's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots (his words, not mine!). I mean, sheeh, twice in the first sentence? You idiot. (My words, not his!)

I am the submitter of the article...

In that case, here's a link to proper use of the apostrophe.

I remember a cool science teacher in High School getting people to write papers on the science of Star Wars. Rather than do anything particularly scientific, I gathered all the fictional information I could find on the ion engines in TIE fighters. I did not do well.

Of course, ion engines do exist now. I want some marks back.

Also: Bob's Quick Guide to Its and It's.

See bob the angry flower's guide to the apostrophe.

Cliff, meet The Angry Flower. The Angry Flower, meet Cliff. Cliff, The Angry Flower is going to tell you a little about our friend, The Apostrophe. Enjoy.

Because of Einstein's insight into the conversion of mass and energy, we now understand how distant Sun's illuminate the cosmos

Is this a print publication? Because the editor must be an illiterate moron..

Also, the capitalized 'Sun' refers to the star at the center of our solar system. Stars in general may be referred to as 'suns'.

Oh sure, it sounds good at first, but beware of the Curse of the Fast Snails!

I didn't think that /. comments are to be written to impress you with their English abilities.

http://angryflower.com/aposter.html

In addition:
its: possesive (as in it owns something)
it's: contraction for "it is"

For a better illustration of the use of the apostrophe, visit Bob the angry flower's apostrophe rage page at http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

Asteroid 2030

"DVD's" and "CD's" are not plural. They're possessive ("my DVD's surface is all scratched up because I'm an idiot") or contractions ("That DVD's about a guy who can't pluralize"), but not plural. If you want the plural form of "DVD", it's pretty simple -- add an 's' without the apostrophe, as in "DVDs". Is that so hard?

Bob disagrees.

There's no apostrophe required for the plural, moron!

link

Apostrophes, commas and capital letters aren't something you sprinkle over sentences randomly. Even if you have a very good reason for having crappy English skills, you still look like a moron when you write like a ten year-old, and people will still place less importance on your opinion when you express yourself so poorly. You would be doing yourself a favour if you improved your English skills.