So the three of us played hosts this weekend to a LAN party. It ended up being mostly Diablo II, with some Brood Wars thrown in, but there was some actual non-computer gaming going on in the basement as well. There was food too, which is always a plus. I’ve got some pictures that I need to upload.
Speaking of pictures, I’m hoping that Luke mentions his new camera soon… it was quite neato.
On another note, relating to the comment that
The priority (for me, anyhow) was to get exposure to the group with the most number of people ’80s music including friends without listing it multiple times. If we all wanted to be grouped with people who punctuated correctly, we’d go join punctuation or grammar.
And the one guy who spelled it ’80’s is trying to be too clever. It’s not possessive; it refers to music from the decade of the 1980s (a pluralization), not music that belonged to the year 1980. =)
According to the Chicago Manual Of Style, a well-respected publication regarding grammatical issues, no apostrophe is used. It’s the 1980s, or the 80s, since written with words, you’d write “the nineteen hundred eighties” or “the eighties.”
Remember that those digits stand for real words, and you’ll always be fine. 🙂
Even I can admit when I don’t do all of my research.
It’s “the 1980s” or “the ’80s.” The apostrophe stands for the missing 19. It’s not a possessive. Think of “Class of ’91” and you’ve got the right idea.
Thanks to http://www.nd.edu/~design/pages/punctuation.html , http://www.elca.org/os/stylenew.html , and lots of other pages like it. 🙂
But isn’t it music that belongs to the ’80s, and therefore should have a possessive? In fact, shouldn’t it be “’80s’ music” because it’s a plural possessive? (For those of you keeping track, 0 people have that listed as an entry).
Eh. Mob rules. ’80s music. Whatever.
I’m with Hamu. I am also an English major (though my focus is British Lit not semantics). Look at it this was if I were to say I was born in the Nineteeneighties it would be written ’80s or 1980s. However we are saying music of the 1980s. If you remove the modifier of, you have to put a possesive apostrophe on the word because it is possesive (or genetive for those of you keeping score in Latin) making the proper term ’80s’ music. Though in rethinking this just now Rock music is an exception that throws me off kilter. In conclusion. Mod Rules, and so does Duran Duran.
welcome to real world of editorial judgement
rock music is not the only “exception”… blues music, italian music, emotional music, klingon opera music… ’80s music. there is NO possessive element here, this here is what we call an adjective:
ad·jec·tive (
j
k-t
v)
n. Abbr. a. or adj.
by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase.
people are trying to be too clever with this. trust me on this one, i had to read and correct such copy for over 2 yrs every fucking day, including xmas eve/day… wtf.
according to my ap stylebook AND chicago tribune stylebook (yes they are arrogant enough to warrant their own stylebook and actually tout it as being more grammatically correct than the ap one), it is as follows:
’80s
plural digits, not possessive thus no possesive apostrophe, and missing words of the full term “nineteen-eighties”, thus the replacement apostrophe.
i would almost get back into journalism/editing if it didn’t pay jack shit.