Idiot language pedant? I mean, the difference between it’s/its is just a matter of basic grammar. We’re not talking here about some obscure feature of the English language. And to be honest, the “fuck off” part was kind of off-key, if you ask me.
None of us here have invented the rules of the English language (or, for that matter, any other language). But once these rules are given, let’s try to use them as best as we can.
I refuse to believe that distinguishing between “its” and “it’s” is complicated (you just need to know that “it’s” is a contraction of “it is”). Rather, I believe that most people simply don’t want to take their 0.01 seconds to think of the correct case: “I’ll be understood just the same.”
Or in other words: I’m sure that if you gave a prize of, say, $100 to a group of people for correctly placing “its/it’s” in a hundred sentences, more than 90% would do it correctly in all of them.
From my point of view, the number of times “its/it’s” is written incorrectly does not measure how difficult the English language is but rather the number of people who bother to try to write it correctly.
I wonder how much of a brain is needed to tell it’s from its.
Mint + xfce
And so do mastodon and mastectomy (not a joke).
If I hadn’t heard about Andre Agassi’s autobiography I’d read this tweet as a joke, but now I’m not sure any more.