Apostrophe Catastrophe

I think it’s safe to assume that most of us are on Facebook. And most of us on Facebook have at least a few friends that aren’t actually friends, per se.  Acquaintances, friends of friends, people we just want to keep an eye on, people from high school we never really spoke to but felt inclined to request as a friend based on Facebook’s recommendation… there are lots of reasons. So even though I have these so-called friends that I don’t speak to very often, I do tend to read their status messages and comments when I’m bored.

The other important part of this story is that I am somewhat of a grammar nazi. I try to hold it in around people I don’t wish to offend, but it’s hard sometimes. This past Father’s Day, I was on Facebook and saw the following from one of the friends I don’t really ever speak to:

Now, I’m ok with “DadKs.” I mean, it’s not like he thought that was correct. It was probably a phone-related typo. No sweat. “Dad’s,” on the other hand, is a little different. It annoys me when people don’t know the difference between plurals and possessives. But what really eats at me, what really makes my nostrils flare and the vein in my forehead bulge, is trying to be the grammar police and being wrong. “That is the correct plural for the word dad.”
NO. IT’S NOT.

I have no idea who this guy was… a friend of a friend of a friend apparently. But I had to restrain myself from jumping in there and correcting him, which would have made me a bigger douche than he was, but at least I would have provided a valuable lesson. After all, I am here to help.

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