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[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Catastrophe's*

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why?

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's a joke, because that's the way people make mistakes with apostrophes all the time.

The correct spelling is indeed "catastrophes", but a lot of people would spell it "catastrophe's" (which technically means "the [...] of catastrophe").

[–] 4thDimensionDuck@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Why did catasthropie hoard all our apostrophies?