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the point of the title I took away was a reference to the Alice Cooper song lyric, which as spoken (sung) language, contains no apostrophe. The title of the Al
by neilc 17y ago
the point of the title I took away was a reference to the Alice Cooper song lyric, which as spoken (sung) language, contains no apostrophe.
The title of the Alice Cooper song absolutely contains an apostrophe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_Out_(song) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_Out_(song)
- mmt 17y ago.. and yet your link doesnt [sic].
- neilc 17y agoThat is apparently due to a HN bug which strips single quotes from links. The WP article has an apostrophe in the title; the HN-modified link loses the apostrophe, and is broken.
- mmt 17y agoA broken link seems, to me, to be far more jarring than omitting the apostrophe entirely. Incidentally, I doubt it's a bug in HN, merely a lack of feature: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%27s_Out_%28song%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%27s_Out_%28song%29