Everyone always shoves these little lessons down people’s throats, but I’m different and special for some reason since I’m making a little preface before I go and do it. Also, I’ve only seen this lesson being taught about 100 times, instead of 1000 like the “there” and “your” ones.
The topic for today is “its,” which is much more accepted than the other two I mentioned. Let’s go over the differences between “its” and “it’s”:
Its is possessive. If something belongs to something else, it is its thing. It is in its possession. No, there are no excuses to ever use apostrophes in this case. The reason this is often mistaken is because “Microsoft’s lawsuit” or “dog’s ball” or “Jeffrey’s FREE IPOD!” is correct, but “it’s thing” is not.
It’s is a contraction of it is, ONLY. That is the ONLY time that “it’s” should be used – when someone’s saying “it’s… Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” or “It’s Walky,” or “it’s a really lame comic on Keenspot.”
Do we have an understanding? It’s so great that I’m helping the Internet; because of me, its overall intelligence will increase over time.
edits are hellof fun: This entry was meant for those that add apostrophes when they don’t need to. I’m not talking about laziness; laziness iss aweomseone.
it’s pointleess to use proper grammer on the enternet…
Just about as pointless as it is in “real life.” At least, while you’re spending your entire day just clicking on random shit online, you can learn a thing or two.
your brain cells’ capacities for actual intelligence is surprisingly small.
keep up the good work ^_^
(realizes that he is guilty of said crime) but i realize i’m doing it, its just that i am usually too lazy to put in the apostrophie.
Nah, the real criminals are those that put in the apostrophe when they don’t need to. They could have used that energy much more efficiently!
that brings to mind the whole “eat your plate there are kids starving in ethiopia” kinda thing, it is such a minute ammount of energy…..but imagine if we could harness that power from everyone in the world…..WE COULD POWER A TOASTER!!!!!!!………’ <- 😉
I make up for this by driving a Hybrid car! (no not really)
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to be perfectly honest i think that the bigger problem is people who type in 1337 ALL THE TIME. or use stupid or pointless abbreviations (eg. “wut”) have you ever read the AOL teen forums! *winces* they all uses horrible grammer, addreviations AND text colors that make my eyes bleed. a perfect trifecta of all the things wrong with writing on the internet.
Yes… fortunately (I think), we tend to distance ourselves from that. Just giving the elite crowds more reason to uphold their stature, or something stupid like that.
I think that the biggest problem is people who don’t capitalize and punctuate their sentences correctly.
…heheheh.
sorry! about.that.
At least you punctuate.
curses, foiled again… ¬_¬
i like how we’ve turned your comments page into a slow version of AIM XD
Man, you should see the Something Awful forums. So many people are on there that it IS like chat… if not FASTER.
faster!? @_@
i weep for the forum goons
Didn’t you mean its’ instead of its?
Hmm…But I dunno. I suck at grammar ^_^
You learn something everyday.
Yes, you do suck. What? You said it first!
There’s no such thing as its’. Never use it, ever.
haha, its’ is one of those old rules that doesn’t get used much anymore…
and it’s= it is
Please give me an example of “its'” ever being used.
Don’t worry ha, I don’t even want to. Heh, that was taught to me so long ago and I’ve just been told to basically forget it. It’s basically a useless rule now.
When referring to its’ spelling.
how did this get 14 comments already?
some people just dont feel like using apostrophes, i mean, if you rip on “its time to go” you have to go into “were all idiots,” “thats so retarded,” and a bunch more.
As well one should. The English language may well be chaning, but it doesn’t have to turn into some kind of “I Wish I were Black” forum for “Ghetto-fabulousness” (witness: “aight,” “wutup,” and, my personal favorite, “hella tite”).
*changing
ARRRGH
word! XD
Yes, I addressed this.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jeffreyatw/166611.html?thread=563155#t563155
I have a feeling this was spurred by my using “it’s” incorrectly twice in my last post.
I think it’s because I haven’t been typing much of teh english lately, but I’m gonna go through my journal and see if I’m right or wrong ^_~
Also, an addendum: “it’s” can also be a contraction of “it has,” as in “It has been a good day.”
That’s what I was going to say. Good thing I decided to read the existing comments first.
Huzzah! We rock.
Ycom is tomorrow. What’s your status on rideage? My parents would prefer to pick up…
whoops. sorry. well, what’s done is done. i guess i gotta read these comments more often. though why we’re having a conversation on jeffrey’s livejournal’s comments page is beyond me.
Nah, ain’t you. It was actually the writeups in Ishkur’s Electronic Music guide. If the guy’s going to be all high and mighty about stuff, he might as well not make himself look the fool!
i believe there’s a song about this very subject.
http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail89.html
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