I remember the teacher would have us bring a few bucks and wed get a slice of pizza during the pizza parties, while we watched some movie on the TV. I guess it must have been some chill out time for the teacher after a long week or something?
grammatical animacy (“it” vs “they”) aside, its not as easy to get it/it’s right as some commenters suggest. the authors of the constitution got it wrong too. the error has it’s own few decades of historical precedent. 🙃
No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it’s inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
turns out codifying one single spelling for an incredibly diverse language and forcing all of its speakers to stick to it was slightly more difficult than founding a new genre of government
(edit this was meant to be a funny silly little comment not biting satire so you all can stop dogpiling me now you make this website miserable)
This is one of those memes like Tom and Jerry. The whole “I sided with Jerry as a kid but now that I’m an adult, he’s kind of a piece of shit to Tom.” Wisdom isn’t inherent of age but man, to those who pay attention it can hit hard.
I hemmed and hawed on whether it was necessary, and decided even though the sarcasm should be obvious enough, you just never know with internet comments…
Yeah it bothers me too. It’s not as easy as @movies suggests though, I think. Yes, apostrophe means you’re using a contraction, so “it’s” should be easy.
But apostrophe also means possession in almost every other case. “It’s” and “there’s” are literally the only examples I can think of in standard English where an apostrophe can be used, but cannot mean possession. Native speakers still have no excuse, but it is a bit of a weird oddity that has to be learnt.
What really bug’s me is when people randomly throw apostrophe’s in where they just make no sense, on what should be simple plural word’s or even just verb conjugation’s. And it happen’s all the damn time. (I’m so sorry.)
Agender? I’m looking online now and the closest thing I can find is that some nonbinary people prefer it/its, so that was probably the closest one/best guess from the start.
Edit: Null gender seems like the closest thing I can find, besides the random nonbinaries that prefer it.
I was in the later years of elementary school when the American school system really started to become grossly underfunded.
I repeatedly heard my teacher grumbling about copy paper and lack of supplies. A coupe of times, my teacher complained to ME! Expressing how they were stressed out about not being able to get all the stuff they needed to teach and didn’t mean to snap at me like that. O_O
I really felt bad for them, they couldn’t do anything to stop it.
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