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The prescriptive versus descriptive grammar wars!
I don't usually notice non-standard English unless my mind can't seamlessly make the translation. If an author writes "it's" instead of "its", I won't notice it because my mind already assumes a meaning of the word in the context of the sentence.
Frankly, I'm sort of glad I don't notice most non-standard English, particularly in casual reading. I'd probably enjoy reading less.
Of course I'd never make it as a proofreader. . .
OCR errors are a whole different ballgame. Those usually give me pause.
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