Honestly I’ve done mostly forgot, and with the proliferation of AI technologies and all the typos AI has read from in the training models, I bet AI isn’t always right about this either.
I usually just don’t care anymore, whether the autocorrect puts the apostrophe in or not.
Ya dumbass, it’s = it is. Apostrophe means combo.
Apostrophe also means possession, so why the historical nitpicky difference?
I feel like that one isn’t that hard to remember because “its” stands out as a common exception to the rule for possessive singular nouns.
“It’s” is a contraction of “it is” while “its” is possessive.
Over the years, I’ve become more and more unsure on that one. I usually have excellent spelling and grammar, but it was so long ago when I learned the difference between its and it’s, that I’ve gradually assumed I’ve seen so many typos over the decades that I just couldn’t remember for sure.
I do. But only because it is burned into my memory. When I was in college one of my professors got really angry at our entire class because nobody knew this grammar rule. So he explained it, and for some reason it stuck with me.
But to your other point, yes, autocorrect often gets it wrong. I’ve had to remove the unneeded apostrophe on the possessive ‘it’ so many times.
π is burned into my memory, up to 50 decimal places, since age 10. So is the alphabet backwards, since age 10 as well.
But when you see typos going on for 30 years regarding a simple apostrophe difference, you might start to forget which way is correct.
It’s about as important to me as which country uses a dot or a comma to separate thousands…
$1,000 … £1.000 … ???
I do and it’s not even my native language. Even words like there, their, were, where, than and then, i have no issues with. One thing that does confuse me is with names, because that is used differently than my european country.
I do. I proofread everything to make sure that swipe typing got it right, and I judge people who get it wrong.
It does bug me that the possessive form (fundamental to the language) rather than the informal contraction is the non-standard one, but I suppose it matches “his” and “hers”.
Your Apostrophe looks like an Arbitrary Value.
LOL, at the end of the day, it’s not really a big deal though. Hell, weren’t there once strict rules on the semicolon ; …?
Anyways, thanks everyone for the comments and the reminder, not like I’m gonna remember tomorrow.
Happy New Beer! 🍻
I think it’s a big deal for me because English isn’t my native language. I have something to prove in a way that native speakers don’t.
I do. I proofread everything to make sure that swipe typing got it right, and I judge people who get it wrong.
I’m a serial offender. I’ll correct it later if I see it and think someone might actually read it.
AI is just next probable token.
With my crap health and back, it is nearly impossible for me to tell what state of mind I’m in due to severe ongoing sleep deprivation. I’m on here when I’m pretty much useless for anything else due to pain. You can almost predict 1:1 how bad I’m doing based on: its it’s, they’re their there, your you’re. My coherency breaks are generally the long pauses it can take to collect a thought or interruptions by others.
At this point, I project myself in what I see from others. I’m probably the worst offender, but I assume everyone’s mistakes have an understandable reason. Experience and hardship carries lots of empathy for others.
I don’t, but I also don’t have autocorrect on. I’ve just given up on trying to remember.
I remember. And disregard it unless context isn’t enough for people to tell.
