• Octavio@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It’s getting really bad. Some people even use “populous” when they mean “populace.”

    • tym@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      It’s getting so bad that some people even put the period INSIDE the quotation mark at the end of a sentence!

      • jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk
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        6 hours ago

        It’s getting so bad that some people can’t distinguish between British and American punctuation conventions.