I really hate Grammar Nazis. I know some who feel the need to exert their moral superiority over you by pointing out when you make a small mistake in English grammar. One of the mistakes that people harp on, thinking it makes you retarded is the it's v. its.
Typing "it's" in a sentence like "we are taking its place" is pretty logical. When you want to show possession you put an apostrophe. The dog's bowl. Smith's car. But we also use apostrophes for contractions like don't and can't. So when I am typing along and I think that I want to assign the pronoun "it" as possessive, I would do the logical thing and put in an apostrophe. ZO NOES, now you look retarded. Well fuck you. Nobody thinks "dog's" is a contraction for "dog is" but it just kind of gets fucked. Really, we should stop being so lazy with contractions anyway and just always have to spell out "it is" and leave "it's" to be possessive like everything else.
English has a lot of stupid, arbitrary distinctions. If I do what I think is logical because I am typing and thinking quickly, it doesn't make me dumber than you because you remembered in which case we decided to let it's/its keep its apostrophe.
So really grammar nazis, fuck you.
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