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True, my pet-peeve as an ESL speaker is that native speakers write
it'sinstead ofitsall the time. They could make it right and save one character, but nope.I'm pretty particular about my there, their, and they're but what you described happens to me all the time. My phone defaults to using "it's" and, unlike many other scenarios, I don't feel like correcting that one is worth the time it takes to do so.
My phone is smart enough now that it corrects it depending on the context. Not always but most of the time, like if it write "it's his aunt" it does it automatically and also if I write "my life has had its struggles" it writes it's at first and then corrects it once I finish the next word
Whereas I'm extremely pedantic and edit my posts to correct such errors if I notice them later in the day.
A lot of people would get "its" wrong anyway, but my autocorrect on my phone changes it basically every single time. Including just now. I sometimes don't catch it, other times I don't feel like fighting a touch screen to go back and fix it. Having said all that, it's a pet peeve of mine too lol
As a native speaker who has to write grammatically correct, professional communications all day, it drives me crazy other native speakers can't be bothered.
My pet peeve is "could of"
Ugh. That's just immediately makes me cringe when I hear or read it.
As a non native speaker I almost always type "it's" out before my brain autocorrect reminds me "that means 'it is'" and then I have to correct it to "its" - it's kinda counter-intuitive...
The confusing part of “it’s” vs “its” is that “its” is a pronoun, and therefore its possessive doesn’t use the apostrophe, where as you use one with possessive nouns. So usually when you are writing you’re thinking about the possessive relationship, not so much about whether you are using a pronoun to describe your subject.
“My Lemmy account’s username”
“Its username”
It’s funny because my phone defaults to adding the apostrophe when I just type “its” but if I follow it with a noun (or adjective) it automatically goes back and removes it.
I get if you're not paying much attention to it, but the apostrophe indicates a contraction, idk how that's counter-intuitive.
The apostrophe is also used for possession. For example, the DoJ's lawsuit against Apple was filed Thursday morning or Adrian's baseball went missing. It's only backwards for its.
And they also regularly use whatever vowel suits their mood. It's like they have a vowels bucket where they're all mixed up.
The one that really kills me is the apostrophe for plural stuff. My boss did a PowerPoint the other day with fuckin apostrophes all over the place. It's not that hard.