Pity the poor copy editor in charge of grammar-checking New York Times technology writer Farhad Manjoo. Manjoo made the argument today that “Both its and it’s should be spelled it’s.” It’s not that tricky to figure out, is it?<\/p>\n\n\n
@fmanjoo<\/a> STOP TROLLING THE GRAMMARIANS<\/p>\n — Alex Howard (@digiphile) September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> @fmanjoo<\/a> It's a simple rule: when you use a contraction, you use an apostrophe. Does who's and whose also confuse?<\/p>\n — Gadi Ben-Yehuda (@gbyehuda) September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> @fmanjoo<\/a> this is totally true! That makes sense!<\/p>\n — ONE HUNDRED TABLES (@100tables) September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> @fmanjoo<\/a> makes sense if you think it should also be spelled "hi's" & "her's"<\/p>\n — Michael Selvidge (@selviano) September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> @selviano<\/a> make those the exceptions; in general apostrophe s shows a posessive<\/p>\n — Farhad Manjoo (@fmanjoo) September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> @fmanjoo<\/a> "They're" is a contraction for they are. You wouldn't make it into there or their, right?<\/p>\n — Alex Howard (@digiphile) September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> @digiphile<\/a> Honestly I would (i think all homophones should be spelled the same) but best to start small<\/p>\n — Farhad Manjoo (@fmanjoo) September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> @fmanjoo<\/a> Honestly, then, I have no words that can adequately express what I want to say in reply. And yes, I'm an English professor's kid.<\/p>\n — Alex Howard (@digiphile) September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> @fmanjoo<\/a> But I like to look down on those who make that mistake<\/p>\n — Michael Selvidge (@selviano) September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> @fmanjoo<\/a> don’t take that away from me<\/p>\n — Michael Selvidge (@selviano) September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> @selviano<\/a> me too but we should all rise above<\/p>\n — Farhad Manjoo (@fmanjoo) September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> @fmanjoo<\/a> contractions, how do they work?!<\/p>\n — walk without rhythm (@_chenghiz) September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> @fmanjoo<\/a> We should just go back to drawing pictures, making videos to communicate. Let computers deal with written language.<\/p>\n — Ted Herman (@tedherman) September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> @fmanjoo<\/a> Please surrender your Ivy League credential, sir.<\/p>\n — Marc (@marconi64) September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> @fmanjoo<\/a> your crazy.<\/p>\n — Paul Fidalgo (@PaulFidalgo) September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> @PaulFidalgo<\/a> I think that's fine too.<\/p>\n — Farhad Manjoo (@fmanjoo) September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> @fmanjoo<\/a> The revolution begins now. Very politely, of course.<\/p>\n — Paul Fidalgo (@PaulFidalgo) September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> The larger thing is: Theres no purpose to indicating contractions with apostrophes. They dont serve any purpose. Lets stop.<\/p>\n — Farhad Manjoo (@fmanjoo) September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n<\/p> <\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/09\/22\/new-york-times-writer-argues-that-both-its-and-its-should-be-spelled-its\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jpodhoretz\/status\/514134062194499584 Pity the poor copy editor in charge of grammar-checking New York Times technology writer Farhad Manjoo. Manjoo made the argument today that “Both its and it’s should be spelled it’s.” It’s not that tricky to figure out, is it? @fmanjoo STOP TROLLING THE GRAMMARIANS — Alex Howard (@digiphile) September 22, 2014 @fmanjoo It's a … Continue reading New York Times writer argues that ‘Both its and it’s should be spelled it’s’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1013,"featured_media":73308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[409],"tags":[43658,43659],"class_list":["post-73307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-farhad-manjoo","tag-nytimes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/15928839571798-spellingishard-e1346341357724.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}