Comment on She did her best ok?

• maxwisecracks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  it’s = it is

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  • movies@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    This is such an easy thing to get, it’s a contraction, but it’s fucking butchered across the internet. It blows my mind.

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    • spujb@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      the authors of the constitution also butchered it!

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  • MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    It can also be possessive.

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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  You would still use “their” there.

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  • maxwisecracks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I know, but it’s/its drives me crazy.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Yeah it bothers me too. It’s not as easy as @movies@lemmy.world suggests though, I think. Yes, apostrophe means you’re using a contraction, so “it’s” should be easy.

      But apostrophe also means possession in almost every other case. “It’s” and “there’s” are literally the only examples I can think of in standard English where an apostrophe can be used, but cannot mean possession. Native speakers still have no excuse, but it is a bit of a weird oddity that has to be learnt.

      What really bug’s me is when people randomly throw apostrophe’s in where they just make no sense, on what should be simple plural word’s or even just verb conjugation’s. And it happen’s all the damn time. (I’m so sorry.)

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      • RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        How dare you do that and still mark your comment as English. I nearly downvoted you for that!

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  • MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Maybe asexual then?

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Asexual is a sexuality, like gay or straight, not a gender identity. It can go with “he”, “she”, or “they” depending on the person.

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      • MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Agender? I’m looking online now and the closest thing I can find is that some nonbinary people prefer it/it’s, so that was probably the closest one/best guess from the start.

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• riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  i think u did great with ur guess of nonbinary :3

  one cant really infer gender from pronouns but i think for it/its pronouns, general nonbinary is as fair a guess as agender.

  just because they/them is a more commonly used pronoun for nonbinary ppl, that doesnt mean they wont use whatever other pronouns they vibe with.

  (source: i use it/its and they/them)

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  • MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Thank you for your feedback, I’m just a bi dude that likes to cross dress sometimes and I’m still learning a bunch of the nuance.

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