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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

NFTs

Note: this is how you spell it. Apostrophes are for possession & contraction …not making words plural.

[–] HerbSolo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's not true, clearly an apostrophe means: "watch out, here comes an s!"

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Correction:

That's not true, clearly an apo'strophe mean's: "watch out, here come's an 's!"

[–] onion@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

You forgot /'s

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

What about for the Goa'uld?

[–] themusicman@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not true. Apostrophes can be used to make acronyms plural, and there are cases where not doing so is clearly wrong (e.g. Oakland A's)

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

No style guide says this. The only exception I have ever seen is single letters, and even that is up to interpretation.