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Linus must have English as his '1st' language now. For non-originally-native speaker mistakes like 'it's vs its', 'than vs then', etc. are pretty uncommon.

• Tade0 6y ago
  I guess this is what happens when someone first learns to speak the language, learning how to write in it only later on - as it often is the case with children. I spent my preschool years in a multicultural environment and English was our lingua franca(ironically the school-mandated language was French), so I didn't properly learn contractions until grade school - same with similarly sounding words like "than vs then" and "your vs you're".
• jacquesm 6y ago
  I've spent my whole life speaking multiple languages and this still trips me up every now and then, in fact quotes as such are a problem for me and I keep using them wrong, no idea why, it just won't register. So unless I slow down to 1/10th of my normal writing speed I will definitely make mistakes like that. Good we have proofreaders :)
  • dehrmann 6y ago
    (guessing you mean apostrophes) It's because they have two different uses (three if you count nested quotes, but those aren't common and are pretty easy to figure out), contractions and possession, and they seemingly collide on words like "its" where you'd think it could mean either. Not sure if you've already learned this (or if it helps), but English used to be declined, and its pronouns still are, e.g. they/their/them. That's why "its" isn't contracted; the possessive marker is already in the word.
    • mixmastamyk 6y ago
      His, hers, its