Kris, who submitted this screenshot from CNN.com, said that the Toyota-related apostrophe catastrophe was on CNN's home page for almost an entire day last week.
Thanks, Kris!
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Apostrophe Catastrophe from CNN.com
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Couldn't that be a contraction of "Toyota has"?
If it pointed to this page, it was wrong to use the apostrophe: http://us.cnn.com/2010/US/02/13/toyota.recall.report/index.html?hpt=Sbin
"Toyota has behaved normally" doesn't really make sense.
But…What if the link had pointed to an article suggesting Toyota (the company) had responded prudently (and normally) to vehicle malfunctions, just as other car companies had done in the past? If the article defended Toyota’s response, the headline could have read, “Report: Toyota has behaved normally”.
I was simply contending the use of the apostrophe in a contraction of Toyota has could have been correct. Without knowing where the link pointed, I couldn’t know it wasn’t a contraction.
Context is everything :-)
You're right, Carlos, but "has" in "Toyota has behaved normally" is about as redundant as "got" in, for example, "America has got talent".
Also, if it was "has", then "normally" is a strange choice for an adverb to apply to a business.
So for these reasons, I believe we have an apostrophe catastrophe here, and the link did point to the link from my previous post.
Then we'll just have to agree to disagree, Mark. I'm not going to convince you, and you're not going to convince me :-)
PS
I did see the link in your comment, but your comment wasn't here when I was responding to the original post, which didn't have the link.
Hi Carlos,
Sorry, I don't disagree with you - you're correct too!
With the excess use of 'got' and 'has', nothing surprises me anymore.
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