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Small critique: you probably want its (possessive of "it") in the title rather than it's ("it is") as in: > I like Svelte more than React (its store management
by rendall 1y ago
Small critique: you probably want its (possessive of "it") in the title rather than it's ("it is") as in:
> I like Svelte more than React (its store management)
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- bravesoul2 1y agoCorrect: when it's possessive, its form of it is its not it's. Easy mnemomic: the apostrophe is for a missing letter, I.
- okonomiyaki3000 1y agoAlso `a lot` not `alot`
- bsaul 1y agoas a non english native, i find it incredible how many native english speakers do this mistake
- zamadatix 1y agoIf enough of us make this mistake then maybe the prescriptive half can drop the whole "possessive pronouns don't get an apostrophe" rule altogether :D. The same goes for "alot", avoiding the use of "whom", and so on - I ain't gonna give up on them!
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- elpocko 1y agoI think they've given up on this, it's ubiquitous. I've recently noticed that a CLIP model (a neural network for image understanding) gave me image descriptions using "it's" where "its" would have been correct. Hundreds of thousands of dollars to train the thing; no one noticed, no one cared ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- billforsternz 1y agoIronic that this is one case when you don't use an apostrophe to indicate the possessing entity. I suppose the rule is possessive nouns only, not pronouns.
- tln 1y agoWith the original title, it's perfect, but after the edits its coherence is a little fractured... Honestly I don't love HN's title edits. Why can't we have nice blog titles that start with why?