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• ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Look, just because your one of the people who understands it, doesn’t mean their one of the ones who do.

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  • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I would of got it right

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    • satanmat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      wood have

      Sigh

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  • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This comment hurt

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    • tapdattl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This comment hertz

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  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Eye twitch at intentionally wrong use of they’re/their/there

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    • dcooksta26@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Your instead of you’re.

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      • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Also that

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “Could of” and similar phonetic replacements making no sense whatsoever irritate me more.

  Here at least the logic is arbitrary, “Anna’s apartment” and “school’s leadership” vs “Anna’s waiting” and “school’s empty”, but “its tail” vs “it’s cold”.

  OK, I’m not a native speaker as it may be clear.

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fwiw, the logic is, “its” isn’t quite the equivalent of “Anna’s” or “school’s.”

    Rather it’s the equivalent of “his,” “hers,” and “theirs.” Also “mine” but that’s just irregular af. In other words, possessive pronouns don’t take an apostrophe while possessive nouns do.

    It’s not a LOT of logic, a pretty shaky ladder, but there it is.

    (Oh, and for both nouns and pronouns, position in the sentence makes a difference whether to use a contraction at all, or go with the separate “is.” But that’s a horse of a different color!)

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The one that kills me is the positive use of “anymore,” which I’ve come to learn is colloquial to Northern Ireland and the midwest US, but good lord it just doesn’t sound right when people say stuff like “everybody’s cool anymore” instead of “everybody’s cool now”

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    • tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Huh; never heard that use, before. Sounds incredibly wrong to be, as well.

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• Devmapall@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My autocorrect always tries to correct “its” to it’s" no matter the context

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Same. But that shouldn’t be a factor in a professional publication.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s not are fault, it’s the school’s!

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• jfrnz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah its so annoying when someone uses the wrong one

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  • Reference4054@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh you.

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• wischi@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  First, could be autocorrect, and second: How many languages do you speak FFS?

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