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Joeshlabotnik
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July 29th, 2016 at 8:33:28 PM permalink
I'm seeing it here, I see it on every internet forum, I see it in blog posts, I even see it in major newspapers and magazines:

"It's" is confused with "its."

I really wonder why. Isn't this the sort of thing we all learned in first grade? Even those who spent four years in first grade should have eventually gotten it.

And yes, before some very thick person says something, the misspellings in Choices 3 and 4 are deliberate and meant to be ironic.
MrV
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July 29th, 2016 at 8:36:07 PM permalink
Your correct.

Its a shame.

To bad.
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billryan
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July 29th, 2016 at 10:40:57 PM permalink
It's code. it let's other sovereign citizens know what up.
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GWAE
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July 30th, 2016 at 4:29:24 AM permalink
I do it all the time. With auto correct on phones, sometimes it changes it and sometimes it doesn't. It is a pain to put it in sonic it doesn't do it automatically on leave it alone. Just like the word doesn't, my phone puts in the apostrophe.
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DJTeddyBear
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July 30th, 2016 at 6:31:06 AM permalink
I attribute it to ignorance.

My current favorite pet peeve on this subject is when people use the word "of" when they intended "have" because the contraction "_'ve" sounds like "of".

IE: "Could of" instead of "could've" or "could have".
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Joeshlabotnik
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July 30th, 2016 at 6:59:59 AM permalink
Quote: GWAE

I do it all the time. With auto correct on phones, sometimes it changes it and sometimes it doesn't. It is a pain to put it in sonic it doesn't do it automatically on leave it alone. Just like the word doesn't, my phone puts in the apostrophe.



I have a Grabnoid (or something) phone, and I am surprised when it actually figures out whether the word should be its or it's (based on context, obviously) and puts in the apostrophe when appropriate, so I don't have to bother to put it in myself. This magnificent technological advance shows that there is hope for phonekind. Mankind, not so much.
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July 30th, 2016 at 8:12:48 AM permalink
Quote: DJTeddyBear

I attribute it to ignorance.

My current favorite pet peeve on this subject is when people use the word "of" when they intended "have" because the contraction "_'ve" sounds like "of".

IE: "Could of" instead of "could've" or "could have".



I quite often have discussions about grammar with a Co worker. She says everything correct. (She woulf have corrected me there and said it should be correctly)

I am very good at ending a sentence in a preposition. My argument is that if you watch TV or movies actors will often say the same thing. I can't think of an example but I believe I use the word at to end sentences. She will scold me and say that the sentence was over at the word prior and at was Un needed. Anyways, my argument is that if a lot of Americans use it and it even gets written into scripts which have proof readers then maybe our language is shifting and prepositions at the end are ok. Way back when, Shakespeare used weird sentence structure and it was then changed, why can't it go through a new change?
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July 30th, 2016 at 8:26:56 AM permalink
Quote: GWAE

I quite often have discussions about grammar with a Co worker. She says everything correct. (She woulf have corrected me there and said it should be correctly)...


"Would" :-)
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July 30th, 2016 at 9:09:34 AM permalink
Quote: DJTeddyBear

My current favorite pet peeve on this subject is when people use the word "of" when they intended "have" because the contraction "_'ve" sounds like "of".

IE: "Could of" instead of "could've" or "could have".

For all intensive purposes, they are the same! :P

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I am very good at ending a sentence in a preposition.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put! ;)

It's funny, but in the south, we hand out apostrophes like candy. I have a co-worker who adds an apostrophe + s to make a noun plural. Drives me nuts.
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DJTeddyBear
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July 30th, 2016 at 11:03:23 AM permalink
Quote: Joeman

It's funny, but in the south, we hand out apostrophes like candy. I have a co-worker who adds an apostrophe + s to make a noun plural. Drives me nuts.

Right here at WoV, we often see the word "casino's". Drives me NUTS!
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July 30th, 2016 at 12:02:02 PM permalink
Quote: Joeshlabotnik

And yes, before some very thick person says something, the misspellings in Choices 3 and 4 are deliberate and meant to be ironic.


Then shouldn't the last choice be, "People dont know what an apostrophe is"?
onenickelmiracle
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July 30th, 2016 at 1:25:06 PM permalink
Quote: GWAE

I quite often have discussions about grammar with a Co worker. She says everything correct. (She woulf have corrected me there and said it should be correctly)

I am very good at ending a sentence in a preposition. My argument is that if you watch TV or movies actors will often say the same thing. I can't think of an example but I believe I use the word at to end sentences. She will scold me and say that the sentence was over at the word prior and at was Un needed. Anyways, my argument is that if a lot of Americans use it and it even gets written into scripts which have proof readers then maybe our language is shifting and prepositions at the end are ok. Way back when, Shakespeare used weird sentence structure and it was then changed, why can't it go through a new change?

I looked this up a month ago. It was basically just one guy's opinion way back who wanted English this way, so to be compatible with grammar rules for Latin. All the teachers tought this way since but the rule itself is useless and using it religiously just makes English sentences difficult to comprehend in many cases.
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July 30th, 2016 at 1:37:01 PM permalink
My old signature on slot fanatics used to try to explain the difference between loose and lose, but intentional was incorrect. I thought it was funny contributing to what I actually hate and being part of the problem. A few members must have believed me and learned the juxtaposed definitions. Always wanted to come clean there but never did.

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July 30th, 2016 at 2:56:19 PM permalink
I grew up with a very 'Southern' dialect of English.
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August 1st, 2016 at 8:10:17 PM permalink
I was at a small town diner the other day. When I was walking out I happened to notice the front page above the fold headline. A word was spelled Weekned. I kid you not.

Woof.

I'm also the guy who points out registration tags in Jack Reacher are not consistent. So maybe I notice literally everything.

At a dive tow place, they won't accept "parshall" payment. I wish I would have taken a pic of the other sign. This cat couldn't have finished the 3rd grade the way this piece of art was composed.

I'm pretty sure I read everything, and I feel dumber for it.
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