Prairie (11:49:51 AM): but my class went fine in spite of that…although somehow I managed to talk for half an hour about apostrophes, and I’m not quite sure how it happened
Michael (11:49:58 AM): oh wow!
Michael (11:50:00 AM): :laughs
Michael (11:50:04 AM): half an hour? wow…
Prairie (11:50:21 AM): I know…but they kept asking questions, so I kept talking
Michael (11:50:38 AM): well, there are people who can’t figure out “its” and “it’s” after years of teaching, so I can see half an hour on apostrophes in general
Prairie (11:51:01 AM): yeah — we spent at least 10 minutes on it’s and its, and let’s and lets
Michael (11:51:30 AM): I think someday I want to start a software company called Its
Michael (11:51:48 AM): so that when we release software, in order to write about it correctly, people would have to say
Michael (11:51:51 AM): Its’ new software
Michael (11:51:52 AM): lol
Prairie (11:52:02 AM): just so you can write sentences
like — yeah — exactly!
Michael (11:52:06 AM): :laughs
Michael (11:52:13 AM): piss every editor in the world off
Prairie (11:52:33 AM): just to add one more level of confusion (LOVE the way you think!)
Michael (11:52:49 AM): woohoo!
Its / It's / Its'
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