Hold on, I also remember Ozzie Smith doing backflips as he took the field
I demand that science produces a pill my baby can take to prevent SIDS.
How about a vaccine? Would that be OK?
No I heard that vaccines kill babies. I demand a gluten free pill.
Jesus christ what a cesspool. Note how all the asshole harassers are American
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Clearly not Midwest.
Oh wait:
https://twitter.com/misopogon/status/1522700792456749058?s=21&t=sStA6xyd6WrEk2NGKomxmA
I stand by my theory that raccoons have grown in size 10% per year since I was a kid. They look like chonky bear cubs when I see them in my neighborhood. Not beasts I’m going to one-arm grab by the scruff and swing around.
The guy in the white shirt in the background makes the video worth watching
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WTF Pacific Northwest weather?
Guess we’re skipping summer this year and just going to continue with spring for a few more months and roll right into winter.
Yea this weather is really starting to get to me. It also seems like it’s windy every day as well. Long term forecast says cool wet June as well.
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Here’s a sentence that I would say out loud, but looks wrong in print: “For better or worse, a road would turn everyone in eastern Panama’s way of life upside down.”
Is it wrong to put an apostrophe there? Also should eastern be capitalized?
I don’t think it’s technically correct.
I would rearrange the sentence to make the question moot.
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Why not? It’s the possessive form, isn’t it?
As skydiver said, rearrange the sentence.
As you are talking about a fixed region, capitalizing would seem to be correct, as it is part of the name (even if it is not an official one). Would not be capitalized if you were talking about Panama and just highlighting one part (e.g. if the next sentence was „People in the western half were not affected by the road“.
Eastern should be uncapitalized and an apostrophe is correct as written.
I would consider:
For better or worse, a road would turn upside down everyone’s way of life in eastern Panama.
or
For better or worse, everyone in eastern Panama would have their way of life turned upside down by a road.
or
The way of life for everyone in eastern Panama would be turned upside down by a road, for better or worse.
What function does “for better or worse” have in that sentence?
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“A road would turn life upside down for everyone in eastern Panama” imo. The fewer words you have between “turn” and “upside down” the better.
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Yeah, this is much better. Apostrophe in Suzzer’s original is definitely wrong. The “way of life” belongs to “everyone,” not “Panama,” so the possessive should be on everyone. But rewording to avoid the possessive is much better. I know people talk in the manner of Suzzer’s quote, and it is decipherable, but the above is far clearer.
Doesn’t it belong to “everyone in eastern Panama”?
“Everyone” is the relevant noun, while “in eastern Panama” is a prepositional phrase that functions as an adjective that modifies “everyone.” You should only put possessives on nouns.