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Do not tilt or overturn the carafe, as liquid may flow out.

It was actually painful to translate that... Are there really morons like that out there, without any common sense? After all, there must have been a reason for adding this line...

Possessive *it's
Plural *city's
The mind-boggling, nonexistent *its'
Conjugation *say's

Is it getting worse, or have I become hypersensitive to this? One thing that I've noticed is that it rarely presents as an error of omission. There is a very strong tendency towards error of addition. I've even seen signs where two plural words are side by side, but one of them (and not the other) inexplicably includes an errant apostrophe to form the plural. I can see how a misunderstanding would lead to the error here and there, but what reasoning drives this misuse to appear in side by side plural words, neither of which requires an apostrophe?

Yes, this is venting. But I'm also genuinely curious. It has come to the point that when I come across the spelling it's and there is no error in usage, it gives me pause. I silently thank the writer before I move on.


Edit to add asterisk to city's.

Hi, everyone. I was just wondering if you could look over these sentences that I had to write for my (high school) Italian class and offer any corrections. I hope this is okay! My teacher gave us a couple of stipulations for each sentence but he let us write whatever we wanted; they're not translations of anything.

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You can listen to the show on Nico (free membership required). Private Sky starts around the 20:50 mark. The single comes out this Wednesday!