mawilson's landlord

[mawilson 2,133]

Got this letter from my landlord today.

LisaD c/o mawilson (see attachment)

[kitkat1 5]

That letter is horrifying. Perhaps you could direct them to "The correct use of apostrophes":

http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/

The rules concerning the use of Apostrophes in written English are very simple:

1. They are used to denote a missing letter or letters, for example:

I can't instead of I cannot

I don't instead of I do not

it's instead of it is

2. They are used to denote possession, for example:

the dog's bone

the company's logo

Jones's bakery (but Joneses' bakery if owned by more than one Jones)

... but please note that the possessive form of it does not take an apostrophe any more than ours, yours or hers do

the bone is in its mouth

... however, if there are two or more dogs, companies or Joneses in our example, the apostrophe comes after the 's':

the dogs' bones

the companies' logos

Joneses' bakeries

3. Apostrophes are NEVER ever used to denote plurals! Common examples of such abuse (all seen in real life!) are:

Banana's for sale which of course should read Bananas for sale

Menu's printed to order which should read Menus printed to order

MOT's at this garage which should read MOTs at this garage

1000's of bargains here! which should read 1000s of bargains here!

New CD's just in! which should read New CDs just in!

Buy your Xmas tree's here! which should read Buy your Xmas trees here!

[Jason-Sasha 1]

The scary part is this came from someone with a job that requires reasonable intelligence.

[~Nini~ 2]

Oh man, and I thought my assistant manager was bad with commas...

[Ban Hammer 14,291]

i think i just saw lisa blast off into orbit over that note

[kitkat1 5]

The scary part is this came from someone with a job that requires reasonable intelligence.

Depends on how you define "reasonable intelligence". The job may require it, but if the boss doesn't know what "reasonable intelligence" is, he probably thinks this idiot IS reasonably intelligent. More sad commentary on the state of American education . . . that kind of stuff drives me CRAZY.

[Jason-Sasha 1]

The scary part is this came from someone with a job that requires reasonable intelligence.

Depends on how you define "reasonable intelligence". The job may require it, but if the boss doesn't know what "reasonable intelligence" is, he probably thinks this idiot IS reasonably intelligent. More sad commentary on the state of American education . . . that kind of stuff drives me CRAZY.

Agreed!

[Fandango 1,440]

i think i just saw lisa blast off into orbit over that note

My head just exploded!!!!!!!!!!

Mark, omG your landlord is an idiot. Gimme his number...

[Peikko 1,575]

Looks like the note was written by an illegal alien...

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

'Is' is capitalized too

[KarenCee 3]

Ok. This just makes the teacher in me scream! We're teaching this very subject to our third graders...proper capitalization. LOL, I just might take this and use it as an example of what is NOT proper capitalization. Maybe I'll get one of my third graders to correct it and send the corrected copy to this...um...landlord.

[Mags 112]

Mark's landlord needs to be Lisafied.

[MissStacey 1]

At least you are recycling there.

The recycling program here in Louisiana is nil. It makes me sad. I'm phoning Nagin's office tomorrow to have a chat about it.

[mawilson 2,133]

Mark's landlord needs to be Lisafied.

[AtlantiCat 0]

Wow, I didn't know an adult human could make so many grammatical errors and yet still manage to spell everything correctly. Typically if somebody is poor in one department, he/she is poor in the other as well.

Must have used a dictionary....