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fix the title please An apostrophe as a possessive marker in its is nonstandard: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/it%27s#Etymology_2 https://en.m.wiktionary.o
by riffic 5y ago
fix the title please
An apostrophe as a possessive marker in its is nonstandard:
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/it%27s#Etymology_2 https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/it%27s#Etymology_2
- ghayes 5y agoCurious if there’s any reason this is of particular importance. E.g. is it bad for screen readers?
- xtian 5y agoIt's bad for English readers
- retSava 5y agoWe as human beings should always strive for the better, to improve, to do the best we can within reasonable bounds. It's imo not about pettiness, finding errors of others to shame them, or holding others to a bar set too high, but rather, if we don't, we start tumbling towards lesser good things as a society and community and humans. Not to say that it's not ok do make errors (it is, and it's human), but if we spot one and can easily correct it, we should.
- brobinson 5y agohis, hers, theirs, ours, yours,... it's? It is just egregiously wrong.
- riffic 5y agobad grammar and it makes my brain melt trying to parse through the error.
- dumpsterdiver 5y agoNon-standard doesn't mean improper. It's still valid English. Just because some people are too lazy to type or comprehend an apostrophe in the word "it's" to signify "it is" doesn't mean that the rest of us have to follow their lazy example.
- abofh 5y agoIn which case, it's still wrong in the title. Just because people are too lazy to scroll up and read the erroneous title doesn't mean nit picking pedantry makes them correct.
- dumpsterdiver 5y agoI just scrolled back up to the title and realized that my argument is totally wrong. They weren't trying to say "it is". I was wrong.
- 0des 5y agoGet in the corner!
- mypalmike 5y agoThe problem isn't the use of "it's" to mean "it is". The problem is the use of "it's" to mean "its", a different word with a different meaning.
- dumpsterdiver 5y agoYeah, I took up a cause that I was passionate about a little too quickly there, and realized that I was fighting for the wrong "it's". It's past my bedtime here...
- underdeserver 5y agoYes, please. It's also not the title of the post, so as long as HN is editorializing, might as well do it correctly.