Does it want defending?
The signal on some bushes close to a park in my city says, Beware: Bee’s.
An area service provider provides a be aware to some receipts that claims, Your superior.
It’s tempting to talk up and level out that the sky comma is displaying up the place it shouldn’t. And lacking when it is perhaps useful.
However language shifts, altering over time, and as we grow to be ever extra post-literate, it’s not onerous to think about that the apostrophe’s assigned function is ending. Greengrocers and others with pens have taken possession.
Typically, folks throw in an additional apostrophe to sound good. And generally, they merely quit as a result of it’s not definitely worth the hassle to determine when or when to not use one.
Pedants will at all times pedant and attempt to defend the language, however the language adjustments whether or not we wish it to or not.
This cycle of the casual turning into formal, then a badge of honor after which fading away has at all times been with us. It’s solely going to speed up, yet another shift because of know-how.
PS to this point, it looks as if AI is absolutely good with apostrophes.
