O, the much-embattled apostrophe, whose legacy is under fire in the English language, now faces an even greater, if not farcical, fight in Kazakhstan as folks become apoplectic. Is this apocalyptic? Or merely apocryphal?
“Linguists . . . protested that the president’s approach would be ugly and imprecise.
“Others complained the use of apostrophes will make it impossible to do Google searches for many Kazakh words or to create hashtags on Twitter.”
O, the horror.
Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apostrophes
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