Smoked Since My 20's

@MissBarbara

For your information Barb, the use of apostrophes are always used at the discretion of an author of a piece of literature, which means the author decides where an apostrophe should go in her written work, not where someone else decides how apostrophes should be used in her written work.

An apostrophe is used when an author wants their reader to PAUSE momentarily for whatever reason within a sentence, especially when a pause would otherwise be inappropriate or unexpected by the reader, so that the sentence in question is intentionally NOT READ as one continuous thought.

That being said, the Original Poster of this thread has intentionally created a 'pause' through the use of a comma where she wants the reader to read her written words EXACTLY as the OP would speak them verbally, meaning she would pause between words if she were to speak those words aloud.

@swirlie For your information, Swirlie, it is NEVER acceptable to use an apostrophe to form a plural. It never has been and it never will be. You haven't inserted an apostrophe into "20s" because you want your readers to pause momentarily for whatever reason. I suspect you inserted it to test other people's reactions or some other trollish reason.

A COMMA is used when an author wants their reader to PAUSE momentarily for whatever reason within a sentence, especially when a pause would otherwise be inappropriate or unexpected by the reader, so that the sentence in question is intentionally NOT READ as one continuous thought. Commas have nothing to do with apostrophes. Your comment appears to be confusing the two for some reason which might make sense to you but not to other people.

@MissBarbara
You misspelled my username. My username is spelled "swirlie" not "Swirlie".

And speaking of trolling, have you ever considered hiring yourself out as a professional website troll with the possibility of making a decent living at it?

@swirlie Personal names conventionally begin with a capital initial. I was taught that it is disrespectful to spell someone's name with a lower case initial, so if anybody misspelled it you did yourself.

I am not a troll, I am an anti-troll. That was why I joined this site.

@MissBarbara
My username is not my conventional name but everyone's username on this website becomes our registered identity with SW, therefore our usernames are NEVER capitalized unless the registered username is capitalized in the first place.

@swirlie From what I've seen most of them are capitalised. Yours is in the minority.