English Appreciation Thread

[sinkoman]

As it's the English appreciation thread I figure you should be called out on your suggestion that the apostrophe in "don't" is diacritical. Diacritical is the same as accented. E.g. the little umlaut in naive - it's over the "i". So unless you can show me the error of my ways my new thing I hate in English is when people use the word "diacritic" in the wrong way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe

An apostrophe ( ’ ) is a punctuation and sometimes diacritic

I even checked before I made that post.

Technically, AND PURELY TECHNICALLY, the way it is used would not allow one to call it a Diacritic mark.

BUT, there is an Apostrophe in the word "Don't", and again, TECHNICALLY, an Apostrophe CAN be diacritic.

So, there is a mark in there that can be diacritic, depending on how you look at it.

Me, I see it as a diacritic mark. But then again, hell, I see any tiny dot floating infront of a letter as a diacritic mark.

Okina ftw.