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detinho | 1 year ago

Sorry but, what is the mistake on the highlighted sentence? I'm not a native english speaker.

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_carbyau_|1 year ago

I think I am a native speaker - Australian, is that "native" English? But I digress... - and I couldn't spot the error. I was going to write the same as your comment.

Maybe the fact that english is so damn flexible with so many exceptions and patterns I just saw what was intended and rolled with it without even registering?!?

The top comments are going nuts over "it's" ?!? Really? I didn't even blink.

When the top comments talked about the error I reread the line a few times and saw zero issues with it.

The words flowing out of my brain say it is a "referential possessive" IE "it" in this case refers to the last noun referenced, and it has a singular relationship bound to the creator.

Yes it reverses the traditional concept of ownership (normally the creator owns the product) but that is the whole point - the website seemed to have a life of it's own and has been a burden/boon to the creator these past many years - so who really owns who in that relationship?

_carbyau_|1 year ago

So yeah, looked up the Its vs It's and supposedly it should be its. But I honestly still understood perfectly what it was conveying so I'm fine with it either way.

jml7c5|1 year ago

The second sentence contains "it's" instead of "its".

thejohnconway|1 year ago

Which is a stupid irregular rule that should be abandoned!