Punctuation has specific meaning in computer systems, according to the “service corporation” commonly known as “North Yorkshire council,” in England. This “service corporation” is ditching the punctuation point on street signs after careful consideration.

According to Dr Ellie Rye, a lecturer in English language and linguistics at the University of York, (in North Yorkshire) apostrophes are a relatively new invention in our writing. And, often, context allows people to understand their meaning.

Yes, that’s why we see punctuation on coins, seals, and “Coats of Arms.”

So what is Dr Ellie Rye’s definition of “relatively new”? Because the apostrophe was first used by Pietro Bembo in his edition of De Aetna (1496). And the apostrophe is introduced into English by Geoffroy Tory (1529).

From the 16th century, following French practice, the apostrophe shows when a vowel letter is omitted either because of incidental elision (“I’m” for “I am”)

It’s of little wonder how the younger generation is being dumbed down, if they’re being taught by ignorant “experts” in English language and linguistics.

Which makes the work of people like John Richards, who founded the Apostrophe Protection Society(A.P.S.) in 2001, so critical. He witnesses the “amazing” misuse of the apostrophe, and what he believes is an increase in crimes against punctuation.

Eighteen years later he closes the A.P.S. declaring: “The ignorance and laziness present in modern times have won”.

Laziness of Sentence Punctuation

Imagine a world where proper apostrophes cease to exist. What will happen? Will people misguidedly try to re-task commas to do the job of an apostrophe?

We’re seeing an increase in the fictitious conveyance of language and grammar. For readers unfamiliar with fraudulent grammar usage, click this link.

For example, quoting an anonymous “spokesperson” on behalf of the fictitious entity by the name of “North Yorkshire council”:
“All punctuation will be considered but avoided where possible because street names and addresses, when stored in databases, must meet the standards set out in BS7666.

“This restricts the use of punctuation marks and special characters (e.g. apostrophes, hyphens and ampersands) to avoid potential problems when searching the databases as these characters have specific meanings in computer systems.”

More Grammar Fraud

Who writes the aptly named BS7666. (Does BS refer to what we think it is? And how apt that it’s numbered 7666.) Just a thought 😉

Such statements raises issues about whether these unlawful “service corporations”, posing as “government” are looking at ways to avoid correct sentence structure communication.

Perhaps they are seeing more people using full colons and hyphens in their declarations as living men and women. (As in a Life-Live-Claim)

Here’s what the Australian Government Style Manual claims about the use of apostrophes:

Descriptive phrases don’t need an apostrophe. Some nouns are descriptive rather than possessive, such as “drivers licence”, for example:

· You must hold a valid drivers licence to drive on Australian roads. [Descriptive: a type of licence]
· The officer asked to see the driver’s licence. [Possessive: the licence owned by the driver]

Let’s think about those two statements from the “service corporation”, commonly known as “Australian Government.” Have a look at those false and misleading statements.

1. If you are holding a valid drivers licence while driving, you cannot have both hands on the steering wheel.
2. You actually need to operate a motorized mode of transport to drive on Australian roads. So there’s not full disclosure in the statement about “holding” a drivers licence
3. The licence is not owned by the driver, as you will see by reading the small-print. The licence is owned by the issuing “service corporation”, which is why “they” can cancel it at any time.

Sentence Punctuation

More from the Australian Government Style Manual:
“To correctly show possession by using an apostrophe, first ask, ‘Who or what is doing the possessing?’

“Shortened forms that have the same spelling as normal words (eg WHO, POW, PIN) can raise accessibility issues because of the way they are treated by screen readers. For web writing, it is a good idea to define terms on every webpage because of this issue.”

“Neither acronyms nor initialisms are punctuated with full stops. Add an s, without an apostrophe, for acronyms and initialisms that take a plural:

“In government text messages, use correct punctuation and grammar to avoid ambiguity. Correct writing shows people that the text is authoritative and trustworthy.

“Include a full stop at the end of a text message if it finishes with a sentence. Don’t include a full stop if the message ends with a fragment or sign off.

“Initialisms comprise the initial letters (or sounds) of the words in a term and are pronounced as letters, not as a word.

“If there’s a chance users won’t know the meaning of an acronym or initialism, define it at first mention. Write the term in full first and follow with the acronym or initialism in parentheses. Use the shortened form rather than the full term for later mentions.
Examples:
ASIO [Australian Security Intelligence Organisation]
NSW [New South Wales]

Sentence Punctuation, Abbreviation and Initialism

According to “The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition”, the word “initialism” is defined as:

“(Noun) An abbreviation consisting of the first letter or letters of words in a phrase (for example, IRS for Internal Revenue Service), syllables or components of a word (TNT for trinitrotoluene), or a combination of words and syllables (ESP for extrasensory perception) and pronounced by spelling out the letters one by one rather than as a solid word.”

There are no such words as “ASIO” or “NSW” or “IRS” in the dictionary, because they are not words. They are abbreviations for words, which is why we have to spell out each letter when we mention them in conversation.

This is all evidence of fictitious conveyance of language. Making false and misleading statements, based on assumptions and presumptions, too fool “we the people.”

Sentence punctuation has specific meaning, and when words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom. Confucius warns us about this over 2000 years ago.

Every day, staff and agents acting for and on behalf of “service corporations”, and “Governments” commit grammar crimes by bastardising sentence punctuation. Remaining ignorant of fictitious conveyance of language  will keep you enslaved in their fraudulent sandpit.

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