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An ode to Surface 3

18 points by edandersen 10y ago

molecule 10y ago
As the author posted the article and the error is consistently made within the posted article: http://its-not-its.info/ http://its-not-its.info/
- edandersen 10y ago
  Fixed :-) thanks
- grawlinson 10y ago
  Fantastic. Is there a similar one for their/they're/there?
- intopieces 10y ago
  It's/its, there/they're/their, two/too/to should and will collapse into a single form in the coming decade. In the age where English is a worldwide lingua franca, prescriptivism is a worthless endeavor. Language changes. The subjunctive is practically dead, long since merged with the indicative and therefore only inferred from context. You had no trouble reading this article with the author using the 'wrong' its/it's.
  - kkarakk 10y ago
    sure in this context maybe but if you actually consciously ignore it/it's in your writing style you'll end up with a lot of confusing sentences. saying things will change in the future doesn't mean you get to ignore accepted rules in the present.
    - intopieces 10y ago
      You certainly do "get to ignore accepted rules." That's how we got to where we are today, language wise. Split infinitives, sentences that end with prepositions, slang, emoji, abbrevation -- language lives. Things aren't changing in the future. They're changing now. I challenge you to compose a sentence, in context like this blog post, that is confusing to a native speaker with its/it's collapsed.
untog 10y ago
The Surface is the best piece of hardware I can never quite bring myself to buy. In an alterative universe Microsoft started making their hardware years earlier, before people like me jumped to Intel Macs and now can't justify switching back from OS X.
- bitmapbrother 10y ago
  You make it sound like it's all about hardware in your alternative universe. After being a Windows user for many years and recently switching to a Mac Pro / Mac OS I could never return to Windows. Anything I need from Windows I can easily run using WINE.
  - untog 10y ago
    It isn't all about software, but I've watched OS X get worse and worse over the years. I don't see Windows as a particularly bad alternative.
WayneBro 10y ago
I got an iPad Mini 4 this week to see if it could replace my Dell Venue 8 Pro as my daily web-browsing tablet. Turns out it can't. Browsing in iOS is a 2nd rate experience no matter which browser you use. Apps are great in iOS but I just can't bring myself to give up Chrome on Windows for that. So my wife got the new iPad Mini and I took her old 4th gen for testing stuff and using iOS when necessary...

18 points by edandersen 10y ago

As the author posted the article and the error is consistently made within the posted article: http://its-not-its.info/ http://its-not-its.info/

edandersen 10y ago
Fixed :-) thanks
grawlinson 10y ago
Fantastic. Is there a similar one for their/they're/there?
intopieces 10y ago
It's/its, there/they're/their, two/too/to should and will collapse into a single form in the coming decade. In the age where English is a worldwide lingua franca, prescriptivism is a worthless endeavor. Language changes. The subjunctive is practically dead, long since merged with the indicative and therefore only inferred from context. You had no trouble reading this article with the author using the 'wrong' its/it's.
- kkarakk 10y ago
  sure in this context maybe but if you actually consciously ignore it/it's in your writing style you'll end up with a lot of confusing sentences. saying things will change in the future doesn't mean you get to ignore accepted rules in the present.
  - intopieces 10y ago
    You certainly do "get to ignore accepted rules." That's how we got to where we are today, language wise. Split infinitives, sentences that end with prepositions, slang, emoji, abbrevation -- language lives. Things aren't changing in the future. They're changing now. I challenge you to compose a sentence, in context like this blog post, that is confusing to a native speaker with its/it's collapsed.

untog 10y ago

The Surface is the best piece of hardware I can never quite bring myself to buy. In an alterative universe Microsoft started making their hardware years earlier, before people like me jumped to Intel Macs and now can't justify switching back from OS X.

bitmapbrother 10y ago
You make it sound like it's all about hardware in your alternative universe. After being a Windows user for many years and recently switching to a Mac Pro / Mac OS I could never return to Windows. Anything I need from Windows I can easily run using WINE.
- untog 10y ago
  It isn't all about software, but I've watched OS X get worse and worse over the years. I don't see Windows as a particularly bad alternative.

WayneBro 10y ago

I got an iPad Mini 4 this week to see if it could replace my Dell Venue 8 Pro as my daily web-browsing tablet. Turns out it can't. Browsing in iOS is a 2nd rate experience no matter which browser you use. Apps are great in iOS but I just can't bring myself to give up Chrome on Windows for that. So my wife got the new iPad Mini and I took her old 4th gen for testing stuff and using iOS when necessary...