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Post #229,498 by jake123 10/13/05 5:40:31 PM Reply	Not quite the right reason "Its" the possessive is like that to distinguish it from the contraction "It's" from "It is". It's a special case; an exception to its more normal form with other nouns. --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #229,499 by ben_tilly 10/13/05 5:55:27 PM Reply	Its? It's stupid! If you see the sentence, "It's its." written down, it's unambiguous which its is it's. If you hear its, which its is its? It's much harder to tell! Just another way that spoken and written English differ. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #229,500 by jake123 10/13/05 5:57:18 PM Reply	Not that hard to tell "It's its" is quite unambiguous as to its meaning, while "Its it's", being "Its it is" is simply nonsensical. --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #229,501 by ben_tilly 10/13/05 5:59:55 PM Reply	It's ambiguous "It's its?" "It's it's!" Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #229,502 by Ashton 10/13/05 6:26:49 PM Reply	Ahh, YAN argument for Victor Borge's Audible Punctuation :-)

Dave Winer thinks Microsoft is in the right about its XML. - (static) - (40) - Oct. 13, 2005, 09:56:07 PM EDT

Dave Winer is pretty much a numbskull anyway. - (CRConrad) - Oct. 13, 2005, 03:50:00 AM EDT

He's surprised? - (Andrew Grygus) - Oct. 13, 2005, 05:21:47 AM EDT

You get the Bob Award for the day. - (Yendor) - (24) - Oct. 13, 2005, 08:44:34 AM EDT

We need a weecode for this. -NT - (pwhysall) - (4) - Oct. 13, 2005, 10:47:43 AM EDT

No, we REALLY don't - (hnick) - (3) - Oct. 13, 2005, 11:36:02 AM EDT

Hear, Hear! -NT - (imric) - Oct. 13, 2005, 12:00:59 PM EDT

How about us polite pedants? -NT - (drewk) - (1) - Oct. 13, 2005, 12:08:56 PM EDT

Well, if you're polite enough, you won't need it... :) -NT - (hnick) - Oct. 13, 2005, 12:40:08 PM EDT

It's a special case - (ChrisR) - (17) - Oct. 13, 2005, 05:22:33 PM EDT

Except that the possessive of "it" is "its" not "it's" - (drewk) - (5) - Oct. 13, 2005, 05:36:22 PM EDT

Not quite the right reason - (jake123) - (4) - Oct. 13, 2005, 05:40:31 PM EDT

Its? It's stupid! - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Oct. 13, 2005, 05:55:27 PM EDT

Not that hard to tell - (jake123) - (1) - Oct. 13, 2005, 05:57:18 PM EDT

It's ambiguous - (ben_tilly) - Oct. 13, 2005, 05:59:55 PM EDT

Ahh, YAN argument for Victor Borge's Audible Punctuation :-) -NT - (Ashton) - Oct. 13, 2005, 06:26:49 PM EDT

Fascinating, how so many native speakers of English... - (CRConrad) - (9) - Oct. 15, 2005, 05:08:38 PM EDT

Hey.. it's like this-yere - (Ashton) - Oct. 15, 2005, 10:41:35 PM EDT

its is a polit way to write "grunt" -NT - (boxley) - Oct. 15, 2005, 10:42:45 PM EDT

I's will do it at each and every possible opportunity now.. - (hnick) - (6) - Oct. 16, 2005, 09:03:14 AM EDT

(I think we found Hugh's button.) - (Another Scott) - (1) - Oct. 16, 2005, 10:19:30 AM EDT

MWHAAHAAAA!! -NT - (hnick) - Oct. 16, 2005, 11:47:33 AM EDT

"Pisces", perhaps? HTH! - (CRConrad) - (1) - Oct. 16, 2005, 05:03:26 PM EDT

...as in "off"? - (pwhysall) - Oct. 16, 2005, 05:08:42 PM EDT

Halleluiah! - (imqwerky) - Oct. 16, 2005, 05:39:23 PM EDT

Yabut.. the scary part is - - (Ashton) - Oct. 17, 2005, 06:07:56 AM EDT

Ooops! CRC gets all medieval on yer ass! -NT - (jb4) - Oct. 17, 2005, 05:35:06 PM EDT

D'oh. Fixed. - (static) - Oct. 13, 2005, 09:57:34 PM EDT

Microsoft XML Sample - (tuberculosis) - (12) - Oct. 21, 2005, 04:23:02 PM EDT

That's what the OpenDocument guys are complaining about. -NT - (static) - Oct. 23, 2005, 10:43:49 PM EDT

Re: Microsoft XML Sample - (altmann) - (10) - Oct. 24, 2005, 03:07:44 AM EDT

That "link" doesn't work - (drewk) - (9) - Oct. 24, 2005, 09:58:20 AM EDT

Well, duuuh. - (folkert) - (6) - Oct. 24, 2005, 10:24:30 AM EDT

Point was ... - (drewk) - (5) - Oct. 24, 2005, 10:58:03 AM EDT

Sorry, that's proprietary. -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Oct. 24, 2005, 11:05:37 AM EDT

ICLRPD: Sorry, that's proprietary. (new thread) - (Steve Lowe) - Oct. 24, 2005, 03:59:33 PM EDT

That is on a knead to know baseless. - (folkert) - (2) - Oct. 24, 2005, 12:32:14 PM EDT

knead this - (altmann) - (1) - Oct. 24, 2005, 03:15:36 PM EDT

I would love to download those references... - (folkert) - Oct. 25, 2005, 09:33:11 AM EDT

It's a URI. It doesn't have to. -NT - (altmann) - (1) - Oct. 24, 2005, 03:19:43 PM EDT

But, how are - (folkert) - Oct. 25, 2005, 10:04:03 AM EDT

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