• bisby@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Because otherwise if you have too many small letters in a row it stops looking like a plural and more like a misspelled word. Because capitalization differences you can make more sense of As but not so much as.

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        3 months ago

        As

        That looks like an oddly capitalised “as”

        That really gives the reason it’s acceptable to use apostrophes when pluralising that sort of case

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        3 months ago

        It’s not stupid. It’s just the bastard child of Germany, Dutch, French, Celtic and Scandinavian and tries to pretend this mix of influences is cool and normal.