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Old 13-07-2007, 05:04 PM
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'Harf yew beeen feedling wiv mah ahpoostrapheys Meester Krewk?'



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Batman, you are sentenced to the punctuation punishment!

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It wasn't me who started the thread, DB7's your apostrophe villain! I was just havin' a laugh with Mr Crook.

Note: 3 correct uses of said punctuation.

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Old 13-07-2007, 06:29 PM
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To be absolutely right, should it not be "Onscreen Dracula"!
Not when there's more than one of them
Although it's the same character they are different portrayals so I think they warrant the plural

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Old 13-07-2007, 06:39 PM
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It wasn't me who started the thread, DB7's your apostrophe villain! I was just havin' a laugh with Mr Crook.

Note: 4 correct uses of said punctuation.

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How many I only count 3

The appearance of the aberrant apostrophe is often known as the "Greengrocer's apostrophe" because you often see signs like Apple's - only 20p each

It is also erroneously seen in things like the 1960's


The one that used to fool me was in a sentence like The car had burst it's tyre. because it seems that it should be a possessive. But it's should only ever be used as an abbreviation for it is.

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How many I only count 3

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There were 4, one was edited out by me. Duly corrected.

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Not when there's more than one of them
Although it's the same character they are different portrayals so I think they warrant the plural

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I disagree!
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Even though the film is a little odd, I found that Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire was a particularly fine performance.

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To be absolutely right, should it not be "Onscreen Dracula"!
Or... since we're into plurals... how about 'Onscreen Draculae'
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Excuses, excuses, excuses!
I see, so the fact that I had nothing to do with the errant punctuation qualifies as an excuse. Glad you're not my lawyer!

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Is 'onscreen' really a word? Surely it should be 'on screen', or even 'Draculas On The Screen'.

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You are obviously a big Ed Wood fan....
You bet! I've been a fan of Ed Wood since I was 15 (thanks to Michael Medved's Golden Turkey Awards book, which truly changed my life), and I'm now 42.
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Is 'onscreen' really a word? Surely it should be 'on screen', or even 'Draculas On The Screen'.

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or even 'Portrayals of Dracula on the Screen'!
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Oh dear... we have lost a few posts...

Cinematic Draculae anybody?
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