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How it feels to use the apostrophe in Hawai’i
36 upvotes, 3 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "How it feels to use the apostrophe in Hawai’i"
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Puerto Rico when they vote on independence usually vote for statehood. Hawai’i sadly at this point is only 10% native…
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Anonymous 7w

Ngl that shit was cringe, but respecting the native name the people gave it is different. 💀

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

Linguistically I don’t think omitting the apostrophe is disrespectful. It’s just the braindead American English language with strange grammar and spelling that picks and chooses what rules to include.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 7w

Just hard to project native names into a Latinized alphabet

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