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This is to respond to the person who posted this in the Karaoke forum.
It's totally off topic there and a thread was high-jacked, so I'll respond here.

"its" and NOT "it's" is completely appropriate and correct in the way I used it, in reference to my karaoke equipment and explaining to someone how I got started hosting:


in this case, "its" is the possessive form of the pronoun "it" and is correctly written without an apostrophe. It should not be confused with the contraction "it's" (for it is or it has), which should always have an apostrophe.
This is also to the same person:
You said:


Wrong, yet again.
Sigh.
Methinks is old english. Apparently you've never read Hamlet by Shakespeare.
The actual quote is:
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks", said by Queen Gertrude in Act 3, Scene 2.
often misquoted as "methinks the lady doth protest too much".
In any case I borrowed it from Shakespeare, even if it wasn't a direct quote.
Methinks is ONE word, NOT two
A short explanation of the quote from enotes.com:

Almost always misquoted as "Methinks the lady doth protest too much," Queen Gertrude's line is both drier than the misquotation (thanks to the delayed "methinks") and much more ironic.

By "protest," Gertrude doesn't mean "object" or "deny"—these meanings postdate Hamlet. The principal meaning of "protest" in Shakespeare's day was "vow" or "declare solemnly," a meaning preserved in our use of "protestation." When we smugly declare that "the lady doth protest too much," we almost always mean that the lady objects so much as to lose credibility. Gertrude says that Player Queen affirms so much as to lose credibility. Her vows are too elaborate, too artful, too insistent. More cynically, the queen may also imply that such vows are silly in the first place, and thus may indirectly defend her own remarriage.
Now, perhaps we can move on and let it go....

as an old Shakespeare nut, I laughed myself silly with the "doth protest too much" quote.

You just do what ya do, cause yer good at it, Lady D!

TY Kightshow.
At least SOMEONE got it!
I was afraid it might slip by without it being recognized.

Grammar, isn't that my father's and mother's mother?

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To the VERY SAME PERSON:

ummmm that should be GRAMMATICAL mistakes.

No, it's MY mother's and father's mother!

Not according to the web site.

This is also to the same person:
You said:


Methinks the one being referred to fell face-first into the quiche, got up, slipped on the mess and promptly face-planted the omelette! It's side-splitting in its hilarity!

You know what'd be even more funny? If said person started believing everything on the 'net.

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I LOVE your egg in face analogy!
I'm darn-near peeing myself




And I can point you to several sites explaining the existence of leprechauns, Santa Claus, and the Tooth Fairy.
Would you like them?

Diafel,
I've seen exactly what you're worryin' about in several of these forums. Just keep doing what you do and dont let it get to you. If someone seriously wants to go through forum posts and point out grammatical mistakes, that seems like their prob in being anal retentive, not yours. Their issues can B a big deal on an English paper, but who cares in here. 2 points of advice here:

1) If you know it gets under their skin......just do it more! "Its" a text message age.
2) Look at it like this, they're probably really old, and will die soon.

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Wait a minute! I'm confused if it's your mother's and father's mother does that mean you are a product of incest?

Oh well maybe that's why I'm not a English Major.

Lone Wolf

Thanks, Robby.
Yer wurds arr apreeshiated!

Chears!


No, but maybe you should be a genie-ologost!

zat anyfink lak a gy-know-kolojissssst?

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Some very "cunning linguistics" going on here.

If you want, I can learn you all how to talk more gooder england like wot me & my mates do!