"It's" versus "Its"

[Lubernaut]

There is an important difference.

[johnnie]

1. Its important

You just have to know it's proper use.

[Lubernaut]

2. That hurts.

That really, really hurts.

[johnnie]

3. .

Is that your art in your profile? The link?

[Lubernaut]

9. Yep, that's my art.

Thanks for looking!

[ghostsofgiants]

10. I just checked it out too, pretty cool site!

And it's nice to see skateboarding listed in someone else's profile, haha.

[Lubernaut]

15. Thanks!

Skateboarding is probably the purest art form I've come across.

Plus its really fun.






















Gotcha?

[johnnie]

14. I like it

:thumbsup:


Oh, and the site is pretty cool too.

[Lubernaut]

18. Merci bien!

Please refer any people in need of weird metalwork my way!

[henslee]

24. Its the punctuation police. Yawn.

[ContraBass Black]

23. Don't make me rip that apostrophe out and throw it at you.

I'll do it, too.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Yeah...that clown was damned scary.

:hi:

[In_The_Wind]

5. it is important

[Redstone]

6. Yes. It's especially important because when people get it wrong,

it's goddamned infuriating. We're not talking rocket science here; it doesn't take more than a little bit of IQ to understand the difference.

There's just NO excuse.

Sorry, this one bothers me a lot when I see it. And I see it too damn frequently.

Redstone

[Lubernaut]

12. It's annoying

that people neglect its importance.

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. It's not an IQ thing

I'm a Language Mechanics Nazi, but that's professional; I cut a lotta slack on the internets. There're all kinds of people here, and not everybody has LM skills, the same as my lack of advanced math skills. Every brain isn't wired the same way.

It does bug the crap outa me, though. Like fingernails on a chalkboard or something. :hurts:

[johnnie]

22. I try to explain that too

I have a hell of a time with spelling and grammar but there are a lot of things that I can do that others can't and I can get frustrated by them. I just know that it isn't about intelligence or even knowledge, it's about natural ability.

I think it is a big thing on the net because it is almost all words.

[Mutley]

26. I figure a lot of people just don't pay attention.

I don't treat my posts here the same way I would a term paper. I could spend a lot of time making sure every post is mechanically perfect, but that's just too much work. So, I make sure it's good enough for me to appear reasonably intelligent.

That being said; its and it's is a no-brainer.

[Oeditpus Rex]

30. It's a no-brainer if you have the brain for it

To a lot of people, 3x2y>4xy is a no-brainer. To me, it might as well be Plutonian. Again, everybody's wired differently.

[Mutley]

33. I knew how to solve equations like that once upon a time...

No clue now. :D I thought it was one of the basic rules that everyone should know, but I should know what happens when I assume.

[KitchenWitch]

7. its importance is way understated.

[Dangerously Amused]

8. Up here, where I live...

...people put apostrophes before every damn "s" they can get their hands on.

I think because they're free.

It's (ha!) annoying as hell.

[Redstone]

16. It's pretty much everywhere. How many houses do we all see with letters

on the mailbox saying "The Anderson's?"

Or stores with signs saying "Fresh local watermelon's?"

Yeesh.

Redstone

[RebelOne]

27. When I see houses like that, I am so tempted

to knock on their door and tell them they have it all wrong.

[Mutley]

28. LOL!

I block those out. Otherwise my head would explode.

[Kellanved]

32. here as well

Which is especially scary, as the language spoken over does not use apostrophes, except in very few well-defined circumstances.

Yet plural and genitive both get regularly decorated with a "'s", or even a "'n". :scared:

The phenomenon was dubbed "the idiot's apostrophe", or "Deppenapostroph"

[Elidor]

11. You have no idea!

It is my firm belief that society will crumble in on itself if we don't enforce the correct usage. Please humor me on this point.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

20. No argument here.

I'm all for breaking the rules where most things are concerned, but language is nothing to be made light of. Separates us from the beasts and all that.

And while we're on the subject, it's "a lot", not "alot". $deity, that pisses me off even more than the whole its/it's thing.

[Elidor]

21. I have to deal with lots of auctioneers at work

They have, as a rule, the most atrocious language skills I've ever encountered. They routinely send me copy to set with everything capitalized except those words which SHOULD be capitalized. Syntax, grammar...mean nothing to these people. I have little purple fits trying to untangle their words for publishing. I'd love to send them all to adult ed and make them learn proper english.

It's funny: I'm not anal about much, but the importance of clear communication can't be overestimated. It makes me laugh at myself to realize how anal about it I am. (Did I just dangle my participle or something? It feels like I did.)

[tuvor]

17. Hyphenate was doing some grammar lessons on DU recently.

I think that was her first lesson.

What happened to the lessons?

[MrSlayer]

19. Yes, it's very important.

A lot of people do not understand its impact.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

25. One of my pet peeves.

Today, I heard someone say "a animal" instead of "an animal."

[Mutley]

29. That just doesn't even sound right!

:silly:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

31. And it's going to be on TV soon.

It was from an ABC show called "A World Away," which will be premiering soon. I work in the closed captioning industry, so I see early episodes of many shows, and the grammar mistake was made by a 17 y/o girl.

[Mutley]

34. Hmmm.

Now, that one IS a no-brainer. I would think... ah nevermind. I should just stop thinking. :D

[Starbucks Anarchist]

35. No, don't stop thinking!

You'll become like them! :)

[rug]

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