Its vs. It’s
It used to bug me when I saw people using “its” when they should have been using “it’s”, and vice versa. I find, however, that the older I become and the less writing I do - and the more any writing is typed during severe mental “auto-pilot” - the more I myself tend to mix them up.
It’s not because I don’t know the difference between the usage - it’s because I’m not thinking. My fingers have no actual brain, see, so on auto-pilot my fingers seem to go on the assumption that since the first time I typed a word I used an apostrophe, that means every time I write that same word, it should have an apostrophe. Mental auto-pilot causes more typing/grammar/spelling errors than anything else.
That, and the whole internet “LOL” culture.
“LOL, U UZED ITS. U IDIOT”
