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Originally Posted by HarryT
The thought occurs to me that if you were not taught how to use a common punctuation symbol correctly when you were in your early years of school, that perhaps indicates a serious failing of the educational system. I would regard teaching children the correct use of punctuation as pretty basic education. Mind you, I see posts here every day from people who are obviously well-read, but who don't appear to know the difference between "its" and "it's", so perhaps such failings are common.
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That can be the fault of the platform from which they're posting. I've caught my iPad's spell-checker several times inappropriately changing "its" to "it's" as I write; no doubt there have been many instances I've failed to catch. It's not its most endearing quality. In fact, it infuriates me so that I now use as a tagline on all my iPad generated email, "If the grammar is screwed, blame iPad's auto-correct."