Germans decry influence of English as ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ gets official approval

[Piethagoram 𝕏 @piethagoram]

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Germans decry influence of English as ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ gets official approval | Germany | The Guardian

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Linguistic body has relaxed rules on use of apostrophe to show possession, not traditionally correct in German

 

[Robbie 𝕏 @Robbie_NCFC]

Every language goes through a linguistic evolution over time. I would have thought the German language is no different.

Lots of languages have influences from other languages. 

The full stop, and semi colon are familiar to the majority of written languages, why not the apostrophe?

If you listen to the Indian languages such as Urdu, there are lots of English words incorporated into that language.

English, has become the World language of choice, so there is no surprise that English influences will spread into different European languages, such as German.

I also think social media will push linguistic evolution around the World at an ever increasing rate. You even hear the occasional English word in Chinese, Japanese & Korean when they speak.