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Originally Posted by HarryT
Certainly grammar changes - English didn't have a "continuous present" at the time that Shakespeare was writing, for example ("I am going", "you are reading", etc.) - but there's a difference between grammatical changes and not knowing the difference between "its" and "it's"; the latter is just dumb ignorance which there's absolutely no excuse or reason for.
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Right now, yes. But the difference in spelling might one day disappear. And we may be seeing it disappear. Orthography is defined by the practices of the language users. (Not in any simple majority way, though.)