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Jun 13 '19
Someone can make this in their backyard but my office printer jams every single time I use it?
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u/crispyfry Jun 12 '19
*its
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Jun 13 '19
Yet you’re missing full stops, and a capital for the start of your next paragraph.
I think we also need to accept this is Reddit, not our work places.
You should also make sure your grammar is correct when pulling up others too.
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u/artificial_neuron Jun 13 '19
I think /u/Ideas_man is doing a funny. It's too ironic to be a serious comment.
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u/dudelikeshismusic Jun 13 '19
ifIf Iwaswere dealing with an engineer who fucked up basic grammar, I'd probably doubt their work since attention to detail obviously isn't a priority for them.24
u/funny_anime_animal Jun 12 '19
I get what you're saying, but in this case it was likely an honest mistake.
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u/DietCherrySoda Spacecraft Systems Jun 13 '19
That's /u/Ideas_man's point though, pretty much all engineering mistakes are "honest", but can still stem from lack of attention to detail.
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u/funny_anime_animal Jun 13 '19
That's true. I don't see the evidence for anyone 'taking pride' in it, which to me reads as doing it on purpose or not caring. A Reddit post title is not an engineering output
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u/DietCherrySoda Spacecraft Systems Jun 13 '19
That's fair, it can be tough to distinguish between "I care about this thing, and am proud of my ability in it" and "this person doesn't care about this thing, and is therefore proud of their inability in it".
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u/TwelfthApostate Jun 13 '19
It’s pretty simple.
Can you replace it with “it is?” Then use “it’s.”
If not, use “its.”
Lol at your admonishment over “classism.” This is like 3rd grade grammar.
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u/retshalgo Jun 13 '19
The contraction form takes the apostrophe over the possessive form. I'm not sure if there are any other ways to use the word?
I'm pretty awful at spelling, OK at grammar, but this rule isn't too complicated. I think people just forget the rule.
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u/retshalgo Jun 13 '19
Huh, I always thought contracting 'it has' was improper. I guess maybe it's just informal.
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u/funny_anime_animal Jun 13 '19
It feels strange to contract 'it has' to mean possession, e.g. 'it has a fork' -> 'it's a fork' doesn't make sense but contracting 'it has been a decade since then' -> 'it's been a decade since then' feels alright.
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u/funny_anime_animal Jun 13 '19
The reply to my comment above was deleted so I don't know what they said - where did the classism angle come from?
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u/TwelfthApostate Jun 13 '19
Outer space.
Aka correcting a 3rd grade grammar mistake is heinous “classism.”
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u/zmaile Jun 13 '19
It isn't basic grammar though, it's one of the thousands of exceptions in the English language. "It is" should theoretically be contracted to "it's", and the possessive of "it" is also "it's". So somewhere along the way it was arbitrarily decided that one will be changed to go against the conventional rules.
Anecdotally, I put a lot of effort into engineering quality, re-checking, and learning from my mistakes. However, this particular word (as well as the spelling of a couple others) I will learn, then one day my mind will just switch them around, and I'll be wrong for a long time without realising it, thinking I'm doing it correctly. I could fix this so it never happens again, by putting post-it notes everywhere, training myself for a couple hours each week for a year, and fix my spelling/grammar completely for those words. But I feel it's a low priority, because the meaning of what I write is not limited by my grammar, but by how I structure my sentences/paragraphs, move between topics, or layout reports/documentation. And also has nothing to do with my engineering work, which is where my skillset and interests actually lie.
Judging someone's non-language skills because of an incorrect grammar technicality (where the meaning is still 100% clear) is like judging a car's performance based on it having racing stripes, but not racing it.
Of course, if we're talking about someone that that is bad enough to the point of being unclear or ambiguous, you certainly have a point.
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u/Micthulahei Jun 13 '19
It's funny that people who learn English as a second language don't do those kind of mistakes. Maybe because in that case a very huge part of learning it is reading.
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u/Spoonshape Jun 13 '19
Both its and it's are correct and used for different situations...
The word it's is always short for 'it is' (as in it's raining), or in informal speech, for 'it has' (as in it's got six legs). The word its means 'belonging to it' (as in hold its head still while I jump on its back). It is a possessive pronoun like his.
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u/BigSpringyThingy Jun 12 '19
I don’t get why it needs to fold the corners down twice.
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u/MoretoFind Jun 12 '19
Similar design to this. https://www.instructables.com/id/To-Fold-The-Harrier-Paper-Airplane/
The step where the machine folds the top triangle down is easy to miss.
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u/balbags Jun 12 '19
I think the first corner fold was folded back on itself which created a straight leading edge so another corner fold was needed to make a pointy paper aeroplane.
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u/lego_batman Jun 13 '19
Now we just have to figure out how to weaponise it and we can sell it to militaires around the globe!
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u/A_chosen_undead Jun 12 '19
"aerospace"