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Hi, Con Kolivas wrote:
> "it's" means it belongs to, so therefore "it's" is correct usage here.
Wrong. "it's" is a contraction of "it is".
Nothing more, nothing less.
This usage has become so bad that my brain defaults to flagging the
apostrophized version of *anything* as wrong. :-/
Consider yourself lucky, though; in German the problem is even worse.
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Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | smurf@smurf.noris.de
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