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From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
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Subject: Re: power/disk.c: small fixups
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Hi, Con Kolivas wrote:

> "it's" means it belongs to, so therefore "it's" is correct usage here.

Wrong. "it's" is a contraction of "it is".

Nothing more, nothing less.

This usage has become so bad that my brain defaults to flagging the
apostrophized version of *anything* as wrong. :-/

Consider yourself lucky, though; in German the problem is even worse.

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Matthias Urlichs   |   {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de   |  smurf@smurf.noris.de

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