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Apostrophes are hard [PIC] (blogcdn.com)
13 points by not_an_alien on June 7, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


If Donahoe was speaking, rather than writing, how do we know that he didn't make a slip of the tongue and use the possessive form "its" when he really meant to say: "it's." Maybe the quote is accurate.


This is the same kind of submission that everyone is complaining about at the top of HN right now. Flagged.


I wonder how many people will correctly spot which one the missing apostrophe is - I used to get it wrong quite a lot, as it's slightly counter-intuitive.




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