Digital talent–often in their 20's and 30's–need to see a clear path for uninhibited career development that's based on merit, not years spent, and that's beyond the confines of the digital department.
Both of these cases are not about contractions though. In my opinion, they’re not about contracting nor about plurals, so I think the apostrophe should be omitted (and some style guides suggest doing that)
Fix
...but that doesn’t fix anything. If those apostrophes were omitted in both cases, this plugin would still warn about 20s, 30s, and 50s.
What to do? Maybe this plugin should just drop the decade handling?
Currently, this plugin emits messages for two cases on
benbalter.github.comWarnings
Referring to a set of years
— (Emphasis mine, source:
2011-10-29-why-digital-talent-doesnt-want-to-work-at-your-company.md)Referring to a title
— (Emphasis mine, source:
about.md)Why
retext-contractionswarns about these cases as they match a decade:https://github.com/wooorm/retext-contractions/blob/5a4414770b341bb4d2bc9068aa3edd5b95fb6bb3/index.js#L34-L40
Reasoning goes that, “Generally apostrophes are used to indicate possession (‘Shirley’s dimple’) and contraction (‘can’t’),” and as this plugin is about contractions, and decades are contractions (the
19part is omitted), a warning is given.Both of these cases are not about contractions though. In my opinion, they’re not about contracting nor about plurals, so I think the apostrophe should be omitted (and some style guides suggest doing that)
Fix
...but that doesn’t fix anything. If those apostrophes were omitted in both cases, this plugin would still warn about 20s, 30s, and 50s.
What to do? Maybe this plugin should just drop the decade handling?
/cc @benbalter.