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On 7/16/2016 6:58 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>> has it's own vocabulary. For example, it uses words like »context«
> 
> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) also writes in another thread:
> |What do you expect it's (average) runtime to be
> 
>   It is very embarrassing to have used »it's« wrong twice
>   within a period of only a few hours. I apologize. It 
>   should be »its own vocabulary« and »its (average) runtime«.
> 
>   (I usually do not correct my own spelling mistakes because
>   this should be of little interest in a programming newsgroup,
>   but I make this exception because of the cumulation of 
>   two mistakes of the same kind in a short period of time,)
> 

I can appreciate it, Stefan.  Even though English (actually, American :)
) is my first language, I still screw up with "it's" vs. "its".  And
with my wife an ex-English teacher, I never hear the end of it.  And I'm
not the only one I know who makes this mistake.

I think you can be excused for a problem even native users have problems
with.  :)

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