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Re:Switzerland bores underground by sievebrain on Thursday August 04, 2016 @12:16PM (#12226545)
You're assuming its vs it's is always due to lack of knowledge. Sometimes it's just a brainfart.

I noticed today that I had sent an email that used the wrong form of "to" ("too" instead). This isn't because I don't know English. It's just that what came out of my fingers was wrong. Mea culpa, it happens.

The way English uses the apostrophe is especially tedious and offers no value: it'd be no real shame if the distinction between "its" and "it's" disappeared over time, just like English lost gendered nouns and words like thy and thine.

Re:Switzerland bores underground by raverbashing on Thursday August 04, 2016 @01:48PM (#12227245)
Oh brainfarts and autocorrects do happen, but by the frequency I see this mistake happening I see it's not just a regular slip
Re:Switzerland bores underground by sievebrain on Friday August 05, 2016 @07:02AM (#12231307)
You probably see a lot more English than other languages, so you'll see a proportionally higher number of mistakes too.