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On March 27 2015 07:15 Belisarius wrote:
Well "its" is weird because it's the only one where the possessive doesn't have an apostrophe.
English sucks. I'm glad I'm a native speaker and everyone else has to learn my retarded language.
mine/your/his/her/its/their
the possessive never has an apostrophe. It's really the same thing as you're and your.
English is quite easy to learn tbh
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On March 27 2015 07:16 SKC wrote:Show nested quote +On March 27 2015 07:15 Belisarius wrote:
Well "its" is weird because it's the only one where the possessive doesn't have an apostrophe.
English sucks. I'm glad I'm a native speaker and everyone else has to learn my retarded language. mine/your/his/her/its/their the possessive never has an apostrophe. It's really the same thing as you're and your. English is quite easy to learn tbh
Easy if you have a prior knowledge of a Romance or Germanic language.
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Easy compared to other languages in the same group. It obviously will be easier to learn languages similar to the ones you already know compared to something completelly foreign.
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Yeah. Japan Korea etc have it quite difficult
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i feel like spanish is the easiest of the romance languages, not that i would personally know.
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On March 27 2015 07:16 SKC wrote:Show nested quote +On March 27 2015 07:15 Belisarius wrote:
Well "its" is weird because it's the only one where the possessive doesn't have an apostrophe.
English sucks. I'm glad I'm a native speaker and everyone else has to learn my retarded language. mine/your/his/her/its/their the possessive never has an apostrophe. It's really the same thing as you're and your. English is quite easy to learn tbh
Obviously I shouldn't ever use "only" when talking about english.
Those others are a completely different form, so they're going to be easier to remember. Sure, it's not unique, but "its" is particularly annoying because most possessives share the "X has" contraction with "X is".
For no reason at all, "its" doesn't follow this, and both are incredibly common. I'm fairly OCD about it myself, but I can see why people get it wrong.
Also Yango has a software glitch on this one, not sure if anyone else has noticed.
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I've been learning German casually lately, picking up a few words here and there. Need to work on my Korean because communicating with my parents gets hard sometimes and I'd like to read more Korean writing.
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On March 27 2015 07:28 Belisarius wrote:Show nested quote +On March 27 2015 07:16 SKC wrote:On March 27 2015 07:15 Belisarius wrote:
Well "its" is weird because it's the only one where the possessive doesn't have an apostrophe.
English sucks. I'm glad I'm a native speaker and everyone else has to learn my retarded language. mine/your/his/her/its/their the possessive never has an apostrophe. It's really the same thing as you're and your. English is quite easy to learn tbh For no reason at all, "its" doesn't follow this, and both are incredibly common. I'm fairly OCD about it myself, but I can see why people get it wrong.
i mean, by what SKC said, it's pretty clear that all of the possessives for pronouns lack apostrophes (including its) and all the possessives for proper nouns and common nouns have them.
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I'm actually disgusting on PL
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stop abusing broken heroes
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pl is only good when they dont have axe/troll
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No.
And I promise to only use my powers for evil
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On March 27 2015 07:30 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:Show nested quote +On March 27 2015 07:28 Belisarius wrote:On March 27 2015 07:16 SKC wrote:On March 27 2015 07:15 Belisarius wrote:
Well "its" is weird because it's the only one where the possessive doesn't have an apostrophe.
English sucks. I'm glad I'm a native speaker and everyone else has to learn my retarded language. mine/your/his/her/its/their the possessive never has an apostrophe. It's really the same thing as you're and your. English is quite easy to learn tbh For no reason at all, "its" doesn't follow this, and both are incredibly common. I'm fairly OCD about it myself, but I can see why people get it wrong. i mean, by what SKC said, it's pretty clear that all of the possessives for pronouns lack apostrophes (including its) and all the possessives for proper nouns and common nouns have them.
That's true. It still looks too much like the non-pronoun form to be straightforward, but there is (unlike a lot of things) actually some logic there.
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On March 27 2015 07:28 Belisarius wrote:Show nested quote +On March 27 2015 07:16 SKC wrote:On March 27 2015 07:15 Belisarius wrote:
Well "its" is weird because it's the only one where the possessive doesn't have an apostrophe.
English sucks. I'm glad I'm a native speaker and everyone else has to learn my retarded language. mine/your/his/her/its/their the possessive never has an apostrophe. It's really the same thing as you're and your. English is quite easy to learn tbh Obviously I shouldn't ever use "only" when talking about english. Those others are a completely different form, so they're going to be easier to remember. Sure, it's not unique, but "its" is particularly annoying because most possessives share the "X has" contraction with "X is". For no reason at all, "its" doesn't follow this, and both are incredibly common. I'm fairly OCD about it myself, but I can see why people get it wrong. Also Yango has a software glitch on this one, not sure if anyone else has noticed.
It sounded like you meant the possessive pronouns had apostrophes, not the contractions of "has".
Do people even use contractions like that regularly? If someone wrote "He's a dog" I would certainly read it as he is a dog, not he has a dog. Even if the "is" contraction didn't make sense it would probally take me a while to realize they contracted "has" for some reason.
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"He's got a dog" is pretty common.
"He's a dog" for "he has a dog" would never be used afaik. Maybe somewhere in the UK.
So the contracted form is actually longer than the non-contracted form. I am not surprised.
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But then it's not a possessive, just an auxiliary verb. I think I get what you mean, it's just that you mentioned possessive and it made me think of something else.
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Why is this even a thing people are talking about
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Because they want to know how languages work. Its called being curious. Its weird, I know.
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Well you're using a pronoun again so it's weird.
The ones I meant are things like "the dog's bone" etc. A lot of people think of those as contractions of "has" even though you would never say "the dog has bone". Maybe they aren't, I don't actually know the etymology.
You're right, I wasn't being very precise and this is a confusing enough topic to begin with.
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