The example given by Ed, Wales is somewhat misguided, but I share the view of the 89% of voting people that the possessive apostrophe should stay. As well as being a beautiful part of the English language, it's often necessary to avoid confusion.
My favourite comment is from Karen, England below:
"...we should stop being so lazy! Languages would be very difficult to learn if we did not have punctuation, so lets keep it."
I'th'ink'we'sho'uld'all'use'apostrophe's'more'ofte'n'. They'a'dd te'xtur'e'to'sent'enc'es.
Yeah, guvnor you stick it to the yanks. Fab use of the word "spurious" BTW. Wee deffo should save all the very unique feetures of the Engrish.
Apotophies are the best, dey look like a little dot. It's like I'm reading, and I don't see any dots, then all of a sudden I see an apostophee and I think oh sweeet dude, ther'e s like a little dot. Niiiiiceeeee. Sometimes you can put them together like a bird's head ('v') looks like a littol owl.
ROTFLOL
i think youre all crazy theres no need 4 punctuation or even a lot of words to communicate effectively its much faster 2 leave them out al2gether and you dont even need them anyway it saves so much time 2 leave them out you can also get away without capital letters and while im at it you can make words shorter by using numbers like l8r or lk8r ill close with and endorsement for the internet speak like w00t or l337 for instance im a l337 hax0r
