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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months 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 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

You forgot /'s

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

What about for the Goa'uld?

[–] themusicman@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

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