Worse than that. I mean, let people do what they want to themselves, and function has always been sacrificed for fashion, but this kind of thing is a step on the road to foot binding.
Virtually no one, perhaps. One of the gym teachers in my high school used to wear 2"ers while teaching. Many laughs when she messed up and sent them flying during basketball or volleyball.
Yes! I have 2 personal emails. One that I want to be alerted for, and one where I check it once a day. Other than phone calls, the only time my phone reaches out to me is for calendar alerts/reminders, which I set myself, and texts and messanger apps for people I allow.
Pretty much the same, though I usually just keep the file open in a side terminal. I want to use stuff like cheat.sh (ex. curl cheat.sh/grep) but I never remember.
45 here. I certainly didn't and don't appreciate the fact that I spent hours on Saturdays improving my cursive during early education because my writing was horrible unless I took too long to do it. I envy the younger generations.
I was considering what to call a Toyota employee and thought Toyototian sounded right. Accidentally added an additional to* but oh well. It's pretty incredible how fast Google adds stuff to their index this quickly!
Great. I thought, after 35 years with this language, I would have finally would gotten to the end of inconsistent rules that favor what looks/sounds/feels right.
> I thought, after 35 years with this language, I would have finally would gotten to the end of inconsistent rules that favor what looks/sounds/feels right.
That's your mistake: You're looking for consistent rules, instead of looking for what communicates.
In the "Two i's" title, if you leave out the apostrophe, all you're left with is capitalization. So you can try:
Two is
Two Is
Two IS
All of those are clearly wrong; they beg the question [1], "Two is what?"
The problem is, "is" is already a word. You can't possibly use it as a plural of "I", because there's no way in the world that anyone could tell that that's what you meant.
So, you have to use the apostrophe here.
It's really fairly simple if you forget about looking for consistent rules.
Of course, this is not important, but with any luck it's interesting.
[1] This applies to "beg the question" too. Forget the rules, and instead communicate with people the way they do in the real world.
"i's" solves a communication problem, by resolving ambiguity.
redefining "beg the question" creates a communication problem, by introducing ambiguity.
Inventing new words like "blog" is progress. Confusing existing words is like solar flares flipping bits in RAM, causing unrecoverable damage to our shared system.
In some situations that can work, yes, but it's often harder to read unless it's typeset well, and obviously doesn't work in non-styled text environments.
