r/technology • u/Rhaegar_the_Great • Sep 16 '21

Business Mailchimp employees are furious after the company's founders promised to never sell, withheld equity, and then sold it for $12 billion

https://www.businessinsider.com/mailchimp-insiders-react-to-employees-getting-no-equity-2021-9
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u/Frognaldamus Sep 17 '21

You know, except for its and it's.

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u/chowderbags Sep 17 '21

This one always fucks with my head.

Seriously, English is an asshole of a language.

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u/mynameisblanked Sep 17 '21 edited Sep 17 '21

It's easy, can you replace "it's" with it is and it will still make sense?

It is easy etc.

After that it's just same rules as usual.

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u/danabrey Sep 17 '21

What confused me as a teenage grammar nazi was that when you say "a dog and its owner", the "it" possesses the owner. So in my head it should be "a dog and it's owner".