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Well, he wrote that he would account for extenuating circumstances like dyslexia, so if he actually does as he says you'd be fine (for a non-writer position).
by luca_ing 10y ago
Well, he wrote that he would account for extenuating circumstances like dyslexia, so if he actually does as he says you'd be fine (for a non-writer position).
But I'm inclined to agree with him.
Getting the itses right is trivially simple - there are no judgement calls or anything. And English isn't even my first language.
Yet many people people get it wrong, and I can't comprehend how this happens.
My only explanation is sloppiness.
Honestly I don't know much about dyslexia and I might be wrong, but it seems to me that even a dyslexic would have no trouble getting its/it's right, even though they might be orders of magnitude slower than non-dyslexics. Am I wrong it this assumption?
I suppose for important texts such as job applications, re-reading to be sure that you get these things right can just be expected of you.
- r_smart 10y agoFor me, I've found its / it's is a class of mistake that I never made when writing by hand, however, now that I type almost everything, and have a decent typing speed, I just sort of get whichever one comes out. This happens in a number of other cases (their, they're there). If I'm typing at a stream of consciousness speed I start making all kinds of rudimentary mistakes from what I can only assume is a corrupted mental lookup table :)