• InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Can’t we solve this problem like Elon would solve the problem and simply store the cheese in space?

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        4 hours ago

        There will be a cannon attached that can fire the cheese directly to your doorstep with a little parachute attached for safe landing.

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          22 hours ago

          Tbh the possesive form of “it” is a bitch. For all other words you do 's to indicate possession, but for this exact word you leave out the apostrophe. Whether vs weather, their, there, vs they’re, or your vs you’re, they all have nothing on this contra intuitive POS of a rule.

          Also the correct response to your comment would be: always has been

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            19 hours ago

            For all other words you do 's to indicate possession

            Only if the words are nouns, not for pronouns. “Its” is a possessive pronoun, like his, hers, ours, yours, theirs. None of those words use apostrophes.

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              18 hours ago

              Motherforking shirtballs! You made it make sense. Of cause “it” is a pronoun, and thus follows pronoun rules. Thank you.

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                12 hours ago

                No problem! Fwiw, I think you’re definitely right that it’s unintuitive, as is the English language’s love of homonyms in general. I can’t imagine how frustrating it must be for non-native speakers.

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            21 hours ago

            it’s interesting how non-native speakers almost never confuse those though

            we make other kinds of mistakes, personally i really struggle with prepositions in every one of my non-native languages, because my native language doesn’t have them, but has a weird suffix system instead