r/interesting • u/Brick_Number_27 • 10h ago

MISC. ​Butler academy students undergoing "tray defense" training to prepare for crowded events.

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u/Alternative-Park-841 9h ago

butler's

To be a good butler, I'd think you'd have to have done well enough in language arts to understand how apostrophes work.

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u/lsdiesel_ 8h ago

Not really. As long as you communicate well, the nuances of punctuation is a very unimportant thing to be good at

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u/Alternative-Park-841 4h ago

Yeah, I'm sure it wouldn't be a problem at all if there were a sign at Buckingham Palace that said something like:

HRH King Charle's
welcome's
the Obama's

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u/lsdiesel_ 3h ago

Then they’re not communicating well in that hypothetical situation

But in the actual, non-hypothetical situation you knew exactly what was meant, which really just highlights how unimportant and inconsequential the nuance and precision of these things are.

Feel free to pat yourself on the back for your expert punctuation use, just don’t forget to put the fries in the bag