Talk:Possessive apostrophe

We say: Should that be "use non-standard language"?--Bob M 12:50, 12 October 2012 (CDT)
 * ".... many native users of English also make mistakes, ..."


 * Nope. At least if you mean to substitute it, that is. A mistake is a mistake is a mistake... whoever makes it. Non-standard language is non-standard language. As I just pointed out in Confusable, writing principle for principal is a mistake. Yep for yes or nope for no is non-standard, but not a mistake. The bottom line is, if you want to add it, fine, but not either... or... --Technopat 13:03, 12 October 2012 (CDT)
 * Well, it's the point I just made on the talk page of Non-standard English.  If a native speaker writes it, and especialy if many native speakers write it, then surely it's a non-standard usage rather than a mistake? Case in point "We was robbed".--Bob M 13:15, 12 October 2012 (CDT)

Note that the mistakes that native English speakers make are spelling mistakes. This means that the word "also" is not needed. No native English speaker will say The Mary's house. Ghoti (talk) 13:27, 18 December 2015 (UTC)