Pet peeve alert!
Oct. 5th, 2011 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sister_luckThis ' is not the same as `.
This don`t is wrong, this don't is correct.
There are too many German English teachers who don't know the difference between an apostrophe and an accent grave. It angers me when I get semi-official stuff that contains this typographical mistake.
It's more a question of not knowing your way around a (typewriter) keyboard than anything else, but it's embarrassing.
And yes, I know there are peevers around who'd prefer us to use the typographical version instead, so here it is:
don’t.
This don`t is wrong, this don't is correct.
There are too many German English teachers who don't know the difference between an apostrophe and an accent grave. It angers me when I get semi-official stuff that contains this typographical mistake.
It's more a question of not knowing your way around a (typewriter) keyboard than anything else, but it's embarrassing.
And yes, I know there are peevers around who'd prefer us to use the typographical version instead, so here it is:
don’t.
