I recently noticed in a novel that I was reading that the punctuation was missing from the sloppy enunciation of the characters. For instance, "I'm goin' to the park" was simply "I'm goin to the park." And this wasn't just an oversight. It was like that throughout the book. And, it's not some dime store, cheapo novella (although I got it at Wal*Mart for less than $6); the author is HUGE. So, is this now the acceptable, normal way of writing the English language? Does the newest, most updated spell checker believe that "goin" is a word? I guess this is your fair warning that if I'm ever missin an apostrophe in the future, it's not cause I have bad grammar, it's cause I'm so very avant-garde.