Rouges sux!

[Plane Sailing]

Soon I think I will start sending people money by Paypal if they actually know the difference between ITS and IT'S.

I look forward to receiving my first payment soon then. It's only fair!

 

[Samuel Leming]

I look forward to receiving my first payment soon then. It's only fair!

Will you post it on the wall like a Knuth Check? It'll never have the same status...

[Edit]Ugh! that was my 500th post. I should have said something pompous instead of cracking a joke.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Their they're, freind. They're their...

If your right he could loose a lot of money.

(I feel dirty now.)

 

[ExploderWizard]

All this hate over a little makeup

 

[Aberzanzorax]

You could just spell it:

Rog.


That might remind people to throw on an occasional 'e' and 'u' at the end (in some random order).

 

[Asmor]

Actually, I find in my experience that abuse of its/it's is relatively uncommon on the Internet, given how frequently other things are screwed up and how easy it would be to confuse the two...

One thing (of many) that drives me batty is spelling contractions phonetically, i.e. "would of" rather than "would've."

I also not too long ago saw someone write "half-hazardly" in a 400-level college fiction workshop...

 

[darjr]

BS!









uh... I mean back stabber.

 

[Derulbaskul]

Actually, I find in my experience that abuse of its/it's is relatively uncommon on the Internet, given how frequently other things are screwed up and how easy it would be to confuse the two...

Really? By my estimation that would be one of the most common errors on the internet... and in most unedited writing (including the work of quite a few RPG publishers and a surprisingly large number of business documents [including legal contracts!] that I read).

One thing (of many) that drives me batty is spelling contractions phonetically, i.e. "would of" rather than "would've."

That's another pet hate for me, too.

Actually the only reason that any of these things annoy me is that I am constantly trying to improve the standard of my writing so it surprises me when I see others happy to sit at the "functionally illiterate" level. And if I am not alert to the errors then there is a greater risk of it creeping into my own writing (business writing: I am no novelist or other sort of writer).

 

[ProfessorCirno]

Irregardless.

 

[Fifth Element]

Of course, this raises the wider issue of the use of the apostrophe. Frankly, if I was Morrus I would ban any person for three days who uses an apostrophe to create a plural form of a word.

"...if I were Morrus..."

Pedantic posts tend to have greater authority when they do not contain grammatical errors.​