Es hilft auch nicht, wenn wir (größtenteils unbegründet) die (begründete) amerikanische Polizeifeindlichkeit importieren.
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In German we simply add an s for the genitive, and we add an apostrophe when a letter is missing.
For example Jacob's book would be "Jakobs Buch" ¹ but John's book would be "Johannes' Buch", not "Johannes's Buch" ² and also not "Johannes'' Buch" ³.
¹ not "Jakob's Buch", which is called the "Deppenapostroph" - fool's apostrophe
² fool's apostrophe
³ fool's apostrophe and a second apostrophe to mark the cancelled letter
The genitive is nice, convenient and useful, yes. But there's no reason to add an apostrophe when no letter is missing.
(And as explained above, no, it is not foreign, this isn't changing anything in spoken language either, it's just a common spelling error due to commonly seeing it in English)
To draw a comparison regarding how annoying it is for anyone who cares about written language: It's quite similar to as if people in English suddenly started marking the plural with an apostrophe. Or if "would of" instead of "would have" would become correct.
What's the legal reasoning behind it?
You can stop it any time you like
But you can never leave
The only thing that carried me through rough times was a hobby where I regularly meet a group of people for sports. Then you live so you can go there again the next week.
But... but... what about infinite growth??
At least in Austria the first e in Mercedes is much closer to e than to ä.
On the other hand many actual ä are also much closer to e than to ä in Austria so ig it might be different in Germany.
It's less of an issue in Europe at least. US news always sound like news from an alternate reality where humanity has gone down the dark path for me.
I like to say that there was a bad side and an even worse side, so I'm glad the bad side won.
Wasn't Trump banned from Twitter
But then there's also the seven heads (seven trump headquarters), getting shot in the head thinking it's fatal but surviving seemingly through a miracle, the ones about his relations to the kingdom to the south, resulting in criticism from the north and east etc
Of course it's coincidence (at some point there just has to be someone who can be accurately described with these prophecies) but it's still very interesting
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So if many people (still a minority by a large margin of course) started writing things like "I would of visited the museum's today but I saw two rare bird's, their just so fascinating." it should become correct?
It's not like a majority is using apostrophes for the genitive in German. But since it's so easy to spot the few % of miswritten genitives just stand out.