medem@lemmy.wtf 2 months ago
FFS will people ever use “it’s” and “its” correctly ?
“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.
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!)
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”
Huh; never heard that use, before. Sounds incredibly wrong to be, as well.
My autocorrect always tries to correct “its” to it’s" no matter the context
Same. But that shouldn’t be a factor in a professional publication.
It’s not are fault, it’s the school’s!
Yeah its so annoying when someone uses the wrong one
Oh you.
First, could be autocorrect, and second: How many languages do you speak FFS?
ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Look, just because your one of the people who understands it, doesn’t mean their one of the ones who do.
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I would of got it right
satanmat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
wood have
Sigh
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This comment hurt
tapdattl@lemmy.world 2 months ago
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Eye twitch at intentionally wrong use of they’re/their/there
dcooksta26@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Your instead of you’re.
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also that