Roophilia Update

[marko_the_rat]

• The Thiess Kangaroo in the Thiess building, under Art.
  

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[ristin.livejournal.com]

My Uncle works for Thiess...

[marko-the-rat.livejournal.com]

My dad used to work for Thiess! (Though he worked for lots of construction companies.) That's something we have in common! *jump up and down and squeak for joy*

[aldi.livejournal.com]

Good stuff! :-D

Roooooos.... *murrrrs*

[lupine52.livejournal.com]

This artwork piece reminds me a little of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 program.

[mike-a-roo.livejournal.com]

anything involving roo's is Good Stuff

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Neat.

[ristin.livejournal.com]

^_^ Joy.

[marko-the-rat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but a roo's what? ;) I've been reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss and it's empowered me to embrace my love of pedantery and I want to explain a few of the basic rules about apostrophes. You see, if you want to say the plural of something by putting an "s" on the end, it doesn't need an apostrophe, eg "There are lots of kangaroos in the paddock today." If you want to designate ownership, then you should put an apostrophe before the s, eg "Look at the kangaroo's pouch." The exception is the word "it", so when you say that it owns something, you don't need the apostrophe, eg "The kangaroo has a joey in its pouch." The apostrophe is also used when you want to indicate that you're skipping one or more letters, like when you say "you're" instead of "you are".

These rules aren't difficult to learn and I'm pretty sure I've told you this before. I don't say this to embarass you, but because it jars with me every time I see the apostrophe misused.

[mike-a-roo.livejournal.com]

Its not so much the apostrophe, its the word. It always makes me second guess. Glad I got an english teacher :)