Possessive Punctuation
On Monday of this week, I set out to write a post, but seriously lacked for any good ideas.
I seem to be going through the Mohave Desert of good ideas lately, and it’s killing me. I think I abused The Muse mightily back in June when I did four different entries for the county fair, and she’s pouting now. Seriously pouting.
So I decided to rely on my tried and true Muse busting trick of going to the random word website, laying down the rule that I must use the first word that shows, and then just writing.
The word I got was: apostrophe
Well. It’s Wednesday and I still got nothing to write about the word apostrophe. I’ve been Googling the word trying to come up with good ideas, but nothing really sparks my interest.
I mean, c’mon: “apostrophe…from the Greek apostrophos (prosoidia) (the accent of) turning away”
Um. Ok.
And then the grammar pages discussing how the apostrophe is either used to denote a missing letter, as in can’t, or to denote a possessive, i.e. Karen’s blog.
And a dissertation on how the apostrophe and the single quote are two TOTALLY different things (even though they look exactly alike).
Yawn.
I mean really, random word generator? Apostrophe? If you had to give me a punctuation word, why not something with flair, like Ampersand? Or as mudane as Comma, but at least I could wax on for a thousand words about my own personal, overuse, of, the, comma.
But nooooooo. You had to drop apostrophe on my already massively blocked self.
Damn you aposotrophe for making my already stifled Muse even stiflier!
Tis simply a writer’s dilemma. (<--Huh? Huh? Did you see what I did there?)
Cartoon from What The Duck.
