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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Thank you for your thorough explanation.

It's always a bit confusing when your language has one word for something another language makes distinctions within.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Bro, look at "かける (kakeru)” in Japanese. It's a verb with a bajillion different meanings depending on context. Kill me.

[–] xx3rawr 3 points 1 month ago

I thought it couldn't be that bad but as I was scrolling it just keeps going

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is a lot of pedantry in English despite there being no central governing body over the language like French has.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yep!

Personally, I'm deprecating "its".

The "its/it's" distinction requires violation of the apostrophe-s rule for possessive forms. This exception to that rule is entirely arbitrary. The meaning is never ambiguous in context; the distinction exists solely to enable pedantry and confuse spell checkers.

So, English will be better off by retiring "its", relegating it to the trash heap along with "chuse".

"It's" is now a homonym. Both the contraction rules and the possessive rules for apostrophe-s construction are maintained, and the only people who will cry about it are English teachers and other worthless pedants.

I have spoken.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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[–] xx3rawr 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On the contrary, what if we bring back 'tis?

'Tis good!