Why is it that when people are proven wrong, they have to clutch at straws and make up some bullshit excuse to make their point seem valid to them? I’m not talking about opinions or trends — that would be arrogance — but cold hard facts. I’ve already talked about how people power can affect anything, in large numbers, but that was about music sales and what’s popular and whatnot, what I’m on about now is the correct usage of apostrophes. Yes, that was the first thing I covered but you think when I point out that mistake, they’d happily accept it and know the drill next time, in my dreams it would seem.
RAGE
Is this how bad the world is, people can’t accept the facts and would rather argue in favour of being wrong? It’s not a moral dilemma, don’t give a shit about them, it’s a little mark that’s used to denote omission or possession. I see potatoes spelt as potato’s, you could argue that’s right because you’re omitting the e. That’s not what the culprit had in mind, they saw a word ending in s and thought an apostrophe should automatically go before it so let’s use an uncontentious example, in the same context; jackets and jacket’s. If someone points out a mistake I made, I don’t argue with them or come up with some bollocks reasoning as to why their point shouldn’t be considered, I acknowledge it and correct it, not dismiss it. Quite a few times I’ve done that to people but all they say in return is ‘how much work have you done?’ Irrelevantly, I haven’t done enough to know what is grammatically considered right or wrong, dickheads.
It’s similar to refereeing, albeit refs aren’t your peers and have power over you; they make a mistake, it’s final and they can’t overturn it. You argue with them because they’re wrong, you’re cautioned for “dissent”. That’s one prime example of not being able to handle the pressure and your superiority complex kicking in, punish others for your own undoing. I’ll be afraid one day that’ll get into a fight with someone who thinks the sky’s green and can’t come to terms with it being blue, shake my mother fucking head. They say GCSEs are getting easier and easier and no fucking wonder, how can exam boards let that apostrophe abuse slip through the net? The “graduates” probably think being wrong is right because they passed by being wrong, getting awarded a piece of card which they can use as a certificate of authority. Then again, in an RE exam, I did put that Joseph baptised Jesus and that got marked correctly. Something I missed there? Did I miss that episode of QI, did Joseph baptise the resurrected Christ? Who knows…
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