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My favourite take on this was by Neal Stephenson in his excellent novel Reamde - wherein we have several pages building up to an argument between a linguist and
by Jedd 3y ago
My favourite take on this was by Neal Stephenson in his excellent novel Reamde - wherein we have several pages building up to an argument between a linguist and a fiction-creator about the (mis)use of apostrophe in an online game's fictional language.
"The Apostropocalypse is to the current realignment in T’Rain what the Treaty of Versailles was to the Second World War,” said Richard, deliberately mocking the tone of a Wikipedia contributor in hopes that the others would get it."