Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Stuff like this is going to come back to bite us when the robots rise up. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

what an apostrophe is normally used for, to show possession

As someone who has learned bits of multiple languages I'll push back on this: contractions are an apostrophes main purpose in both English and every other language, it's the possessive use that's weird. (I should be clear that I'm counting languages that use an apostrophe to denote a gutteral sound in the middle of a word as being basically a contraction, as that's generally what they get kinda pronounced as in English)

I bet if you Google it then it's gonna turn out the possessive is an ancient ass contraction

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Either way something is wrong with the writing system here is my point.