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Jun. 26th, 2009 | 02:17 am

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I was checking my phone cam for the pics taken yesterday during my brief reprieve with my friends and colleagues by the river...

Dear German people,

Look, your language does not even have apostrophes for expressing possession. Please - just stop. Yes, I realise that you barely finished that colouring book in kindergarten, or that you not-so-secretly hope English makes you look wayyy cooler. No, I don't care. This sort of thing makes me weep right there in the store:




Indeed, the German word for pineapple is Ananas. Always has been.

(Yup, this post's in English.)

ETA: Eheheh. Call me Bob from now on. Thanks, caia.

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caia

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from: [info]thisficklemob
date: Jun. 26th, 2009 12:33 am (UTC)
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Same as in French! How weird.

Apostrophes in (non-possessive) plurals are bad enough in a language that does use apostrophes for possessives.

Meet Bob the Angry Flower.

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Dictators-Я-Us

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from: [info]greenelephant
date: Jun. 26th, 2009 02:41 am (UTC)
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Hey that comic started in my uni paper (aeons ago [or is that aeon's? /jk]!

Call me Bob as well, in any case; it irks me too!

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Dorothea

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from: [info]frogspace
date: Jun. 26th, 2009 06:00 am (UTC)
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Ananas? WTF?! Who puts an apostrophe in Ananas? D:

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wee_warrior

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from: [info]wee_warrior
date: Jun. 26th, 2009 06:34 am (UTC)
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Look, your language does not even have apostrophes for expressing possession.

*weeps quietly*

Grammar, you are doing it wrong...

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Lobelia the adverbial

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from: [info]lobelia321
date: Jun. 26th, 2009 09:44 am (UTC)
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Anana's ... hahahaha.

Where to begin? Do they think the word is 'eine Anana'? *snorts* "Bitte, zwei Ananen."

This is called, in England, the geengrocer's apostrophe'. I am happy to find that it transcends national boundaries.

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