>Hi everybody,
>
>Just curious how many of you know when to use its and when it's? I see a wrong usage in native speakers' texts quite often...

That's newspeak... if you want your text to look right, pass it through this piece of code (which I never finished, needs more work):

Lparameters c


StuffIt (@c, "s", "'s")
*-- remove double apostrophes
c=Strtran(c, [''], ['])
StuffIt (@c, "it is", "it's")
StuffIt (@c, "its", "it's")
StuffIt (@c, "your", "you are")
StuffIt (@c, "you're", "your")
StuffIt (@c, "buy", "by")
StuffIt (@c, "ator", "ater")
StuffIt (@c, "itor", "iter")
StuffIt (@c, "ague", "auge")
StuffIt (@c, "separate", "seperate", .t.)
StuffIt (@c, "finite", "finate", .t.)
StuffIt (@c, "empir", "impir")
StuffIt (@c, "emely", "emley")
StuffIt (@c, "ately", "atley")
StuffIt (@c, "abel", "able")
StuffIt (@c, "obel", "oble")
StuffIt (@c, "ndal", "ndle")
StuffIt (@c, "edly", "idly")
StuffIt (@c, "ical", "icle")
StuffIt (@c, "etence", "etance")
StuffIt (@c, "imiz", "imaz", .t.)
StuffIt (@c, "know", "no")
StuffIt (@c, " kn", " n")
StuffIt (@c, "compatible", "compatable")
StuffIt (@c, "character", "charicter")
StuffIt (@c, "category", "catagory")
StuffIt (@c, "course", "coarse", .t.)
StuffIt (@c, "anomaly", "anamoly")
StuffIt (@c, "burgundy", "burgandy")
StuffIt (@c, "pseudo", "psuedo", .t.)
StuffIt (@c, "propag", "propog", .t.)
StuffIt (@c, "sight", "site")
StuffIt (@c, "huge", "hugh")
StuffIt (@c, "nauseam", "nauseum")
StuffIt (@c, "quite", "quiet")
StuffIt (@c, "quit", "quite")
StuffIt (@c, "ridicul", "redicul",.t.)
StuffIt (@c, "regard", "reguard",.t.)
StuffIt (@c, "reper", "repro", .t.)
StuffIt (@c, "semitic", "semetic")
StuffIt (@c, "since", "sence")
StuffIt (@c, "sense", "since")
StuffIt (@c, "lo and", "low and")
StuffIt (@c, "wear", "where")
StuffIt (@c, "we're", "where")
StuffIt (@c, "were", "where")
Return c

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Procedure StuffIt(tcOrig, tcS1, tcs2, tlNoSpace)
	tcCopy=Chrtran(tcOrig, Chr(34)+"![]{}()!#$%&/-_+*?", Space(120))
	lcSearchFor=tcS1+Iif(tlNoSpace, "", " ")
	For i=Occurs(lcSearchFor, tcCopy) To 1 Step -1
		nAt=At(lcSearchFor, tcCopy,i)
		tcOrig=Stuff(tcOrig,nAt,Len(tcS1), tcs2)
	Endfor