Facebook on-the-go; not just for iPhones and Blackberry's anymore!

[nelsonmxmarc]

http://www.geekologie.com/2010/09/zuckerberg_is_that_you_hot_fac.php

Poke around the site - good stuff.

[QuietChaos]

Waste of a perfectly good Impala SS.

[nelsonmxmarc]

I was hoping for 9c1, or best case scenario .. Classic.

[raijin-xiii]

why does iphone get an apostrophe and blackberry doesn't?

[nelsonmxmarc]

why does iphone get an apostrophe and blackberry doesn't?

Facebook on-the-go; not just for iPhones and Blackberry's anymore!

You mean the other way around?

Well, for starters; Berry in plural form is berries, and the company name is Blackberry; thus you can't write Blackberry in plural form as Blackberries because it's a company name, like the name of an individual.. And berrys isn't proper.

iPhone.. Well, the plural term for phone is phones, not phone's which would dictate phone-is or the singular sense of ownership. And we all know everyone owns an iPhone.. Wtf is a blackberry?

[raijin-xiii]

You mean the other way around?

Well, for starters; Berry in plural form is berries, and the company name is Blackberry; thus you can't write Blackberry in plural form as Blackberries because it's a company name, like the name of an individual.. And berrys isn't proper.

iPhone.. Well, the plural term for phone is phones, not phone's which would dictate phone-is or the singular sense of ownership. And we all know everyone owns an iPhone.. Wtf is a blackberry?

yes, other way around lol sorry.
I made that statement just to bust your balls, as I don't actually want to argue over contradictions in the English language (it would be endless)... BUT I just wanted to point out your bro-grammar of the company name thing:

Pluralizing a -y word with an -s isn't proper, as you stated, but now I don't understand why pluralizing a -y word with an apostrophe is proper (or less improper) in its place lol. Apostrophes are only used to pluralize something in two cases (aside from the probable contradictions as I mentioned before): for pluralized letters (I got all F's on my report card...) and when we are trying to create the plural form of a word that refers to the word itself (I don't want to hear any if's, and's or but's) -- but that one is like the English equivalent to dividing by zero as it requires specifically-placed italics and only in the word-of-a-word when we're referring to it in itself, not to mention it's not really followed, so hell, why not just fill it in yourself.

Anyway, proper nouns that end in -y are actually pluralized simply with an -s added to the end. You can try it yourself on this grammar quiz (the example being "Kennedy" in this case):

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/cross/plurals_gap.htm

I hope I don't look like I **** by making this correction, but you brought up an interesting argument.
I'm usually a **** to people who just randomly pluralize things with apostrophes that do not deserve them at all... to be honest I thought this was one of those cases at first, but I'm glad you had at least a logical argument, so I'm proud you're not a moron. Again, I didn't mean to come off as a **** or anything, and I'm sorry if I did.

[nelsonmxmarc]

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