Today in The Apocalypse Approaches

Written By: admin - Jul• 17•09

I am all about living languages and words changing meanings and suchnot.  I just feel that there’s a material difference between the natural evolution of vocabulary as fashion and new invention dictate and the evolution of language because people’s ignorance leads them to make a mistake over and over.

For example!  I am starting to suspect that using an apostrophe-s to pluralize days of the week is rapidly becoming acceptable.  I think this comes from the (debatable) utility of apostrophe-s to pluralize things like “CD” and “DVD.”  But I don’t really understand the logic, because I’m pretty sure the culprits wouldn’t argue that the plural of “day” is “day’s.”

Or maybe they would.

Anyway, Reporter #1 found this gem, which just makes me sad.

Bullfeathers 1

Of course, we also have here a lovely “Kid’s Menu,” which I imagine is only available to the first child into the restaurant at any given time.  And that’s just wrong, ladies and gentlemen.  So I can take refuge in that, at least.

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4 Comments

  1. DavidS says:

    They even misspelled the name of the restaurant! It should be “Bullfeather’s,” right?

  2. Reporter #1 says:

    I’m not sure if Bullfeathers is intended to be a possessive or not, Dave.

    I can see argument’s for Kid’s Menu in the singular, but I do think that Kids’ Menu would be more appropriate.

    I can make no argument for Monday’s.

  3. Jessica says:

    Since when do bulls have feathers anyway?? 😀

  4. Cortical Slim says:

    They stole the idea from horses.

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