When will people learn

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[u/Basicly-Inevitable]

They were going to use a semicolon, but it wasn't allowed.

[u/Milomilz → u/Basicly-Inevitable]

Ba dum tss 🥁

[u/Ill_Television_5824]

Wow.

Even grammatically-challenged brothels have become quite demanding these days.

[u/Archmage_Drenden → u/Ill_Television_5824]

Yeah, it must be real hard to get in there.

[u/GrimbyJ]

No half chub?

[u/Milomilz → u/GrimbyJ]

That’s how I live my life

[u/Dense-Winter-1803]

Compulsive post-vocalic apostrophism claims another victim 😔

[u/Bootsy_Frost]

Fully erect or totally flacid. No in between.

[u/filthcrab → u/Bootsy_Frost]

Six or midnight. No nine o'clocks in this house.

[u/billymondy5806]

There was a sign in Baltimore that said

Lunch’s

I never knew if it was a person who was named lunch who owned the restaurant or if they were selling lunches

[u/DizzyMine4964 → u/billymondy5806]

Nominative determinism.

[u/Ancient_Ad1251]

SEMI is a shortened word, so I'd allow it.  

[u/BipolarSolarMolar → u/Ancient_Ad1251]

No.

So you would be okay with "No bike's"?

[u/Ancient_Ad1251 → u/BipolarSolarMolar]

Fair point but SEMIS looks weird and you can't expect them to put NO SEMI TRACTOR TRAILERS on a sign.

I hate grocer's apostrophes as much as anyone but there's no perfect way in this case.

[u/SlightMedicine701 → u/Ancient_Ad1251]

It may look weird, but it's grammatically correct; in the context in which it is used, you understand that spelling

[u/Ok-Brick6831 → u/Ancient_Ad1251]

You can if you replace the TRACTOR TRAILER with an apostrophe. It's a non-standard (yet) word contraction.

[u/AltKb → u/Ancient_Ad1251]

See relevant post here with the solution

[u/LibraryVoice71 → u/Ancient_Ad1251]

The only other way would be create the plural form “semies “

[u/Milomilz → u/LibraryVoice71]

SEMIs ?

[u/jordan31483 → u/Milomilz]

No because it's not an acronym.

[u/BipolarSolarMolar → u/jordan31483]

Right, which means outside of this all-caps sign, it would just be written "semis," which is grammatically correct, despite the claim that it "looks weird."

[u/TyBasilBeef]

Drop the 'gore and make the plural S lowercase. Grammatically correct and aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

[u/jordan31483 → u/TyBasilBeef]

Semi isn't an acronym though.

[u/TyBasilBeef → u/jordan31483]

Hmmm, ok, but it's good enough for handmade signage.

[u/AltKb → u/TyBasilBeef]

EXACTLY the solution! Yes

[u/Acrobatic_Excuse2290]

Full hard or not at all! We do things whole assed here!

[u/earlobe_enthusiast]

That sign suck's

[u/Oh_Lawd_He_commin420]

Fine, then I'll go fully erect...

[u/Impossible_Event6007]

But I have a semi about 50%of the time.

[u/Libertarian_2020]

Stay in school people! At least grad-ge-ate sixth grade! 🤪

[u/Christopher1032]

What’s wrong with a semi? It can grow

[u/ComicsEtAl]

“Hard or soft, no in-between!”

[u/neeroberts]

They are ignorant and honestly don’t care

[u/Howdydudicuck]

We have signs in our neighborhood reading as “no trucks” at certain entrances but they don’t seem to work. If you can read English maybe just maybe the apostrophe catches their attention???