Quote: chuyskywalker So which /it'?s/ is it for possession? Eh? As Minisweeper said: its is the posessive form of it. Thats why it's the exception to the rule.
Otherwise, if you said: The car has it's left quarter panel dented. Expanded, it would be: The car has it is left quarter panel dented.
Quite simple really, much more so than JavaScript logic.
@tomtester: I know it's not always the case, I'm not that out of it :-P Hence the 'sometimes'
@wanderer: I don't think the word 'loempia' refers to a specific type of eggroll, it appears to be a more general term (eg. kip loempia = chicken eggroll).
I'm just winding you up dude.... solely to see how long it took you to take the bait - answer - not long! :)
It often makes me cringe when people get these kinda things wrong in a professional situation. On forums, fair enough, but in a work email!?
Wanderer is going to be my proof reader once i start writing for my blog
right Wanderer
I have to agree if ur writing something nice for people to read, lil mistakes like these make u look stupid.
Quote: MySchizoBuddy I have to agree if ur writing something nice for people to read, lil mistakes like these make u look stupid. It's not just that it makes you look stupid, it also makes you look lazy and careless and would not be encouraging me to pay you to work for me with such a lackadaisical attitude.
Another pet peeve is MS Chat abbreviations like "ur" meaning "you are" because surely if you have something meaningful and valuable to say you should take the extra .002 milliseconds to actually say it rather than putting the onus back onto me to spend energy deciphering what you are trying to say.
It also has a lot to do with respect and standards, people these days mistake these for conformity so they decide to be rebellious and cool when in fact, all they are doing is conforming alongside other cool rebels! This does not impress me at all, especially when I am in a position of allocating work contracts!
All of this of course, excludes those among us who don't have English as their first language. I'm sure English is difficult enough for you without having to work out lazy codes, bad grammar, incorrect punctuation and errant spelling.
Quite often people who don't have English as their first language are far more accurate than those of us who do. That explains why you're so accurate Wanderer
Quote: [-Stash-] Quite often people who don't have English as their first language are far more accurate than those of us who do. That explains why you're so accurate Wanderer As a matter of fact, for the first 3 years I was educated in a very proper English public school before emigrating to Australia where I continued through to tertiary schooling and beyond with English as my very first language.
I know of many similarly educated people who resort to lazy speech when writing, especially emails and the like, even dropping the occasional "4u" in so-called professional communications!
I think one's "attitude" has more impact than one's first language. I read somewhere that if you know multiple languages, your "first" language is the one you think and dream in. Apparently, you cannot think about concepts, nor dream about them if you don't have the associated words in your vocabulary.
Just think how boring some peoples' dreams must be if they don't know the word for "sex"...
My sister says she still thinks and dreams in German even though she's been living in this country for 4 years and was only in Germany for 5 before that... but then she's weird
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As Minisweeper said: its is the posessive form of it. Thats why it's the exception to the rule.
Otherwise, if you said: The car has it's left quarter panel dented.
Expanded, it would be: The car has it is left quarter panel dented.
Quite simple really, much more so than JavaScript logic.
Quote: chuyskywalker Oh, not going to cover "its <> it's" ? How can you skip it!
Because it's a very common mistake to make "it's" a possession.
@wanderer: I don't think the word 'loempia' refers to a specific type of eggroll, it appears to be a more general term (eg. kip loempia = chicken eggroll).
Now what's wrong with this?
Again involving the apostrophe...
This is wrong: Your almost there already.
YOUR goat = the goat belongs to YOU
YOU'RE = YOU ARE
Correct: You're almost there already.
This is a common mistake, I recently saw it on a DVD on the life of Walt Disney!
Posted: Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 7:50AM (AEDT)
3stripe, Just doing my little bit. I think it's sad to see otherwise intelligent people making ignorant arses of themselves!
By the way, you left the apostrophe out: isnt it? should be isn't it?
Posted: Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 8:55AM (AEDT)
Wanderer: Ever try reading Mark Twain? (AKA Samuel Clemmons)
It's not just that it makes you look stupid, it also makes you look lazy and careless and would not be encouraging me to pay you to work for me with such a lackadaisical attitude.
Another pet peeve is MS Chat abbreviations like "ur" meaning "you are" because surely if you have something meaningful and valuable to say you should take the extra .002 milliseconds to actually say it rather than putting the onus back onto me to spend energy deciphering what you are trying to say.
It also has a lot to do with respect and standards, people these days mistake these for conformity so they decide to be rebellious and cool when in fact, all they are doing is conforming alongside other cool rebels! This does not impress me at all, especially when I am in a position of allocating work contracts!
All of this of course, excludes those among us who don't have English as their first language. I'm sure English is difficult enough for you without having to work out lazy codes, bad grammar, incorrect punctuation and errant spelling.
Posted: Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 10:10AM (AEDT)
As a matter of fact, for the first 3 years I was educated in a very proper English public school before emigrating to Australia where I continued through to tertiary schooling and beyond with English as my very first language.
I know of many similarly educated people who resort to lazy speech when writing, especially emails and the like, even dropping the occasional "4u" in so-called professional communications!
I think one's "attitude" has more impact than one's first language. I read somewhere that if you know multiple languages, your "first" language is the one you think and dream in. Apparently, you cannot think about concepts, nor dream about them if you don't have the associated words in your vocabulary.
Just think how boring some peoples' dreams must be if they don't know the word for "sex"...
Posted: Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 10:44AM (AEDT)