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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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 1 points 11 months ago

Why did catasthropie hoard all our apostrophies?