Reading the answers to this questions, I’d say “Not understanding the meaning of most people”.

No one showing love for ncdu around here?

"A mastodon, (from Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós), meaning “breast, and ὀδούς (odoús) “tooth”)”

Just wait till you know the etymology of mastodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon

Edit to save a click: "A mastodon, (from Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós), meaning “breast, and ὀδούς (odoús) “tooth”)”

Edit 2: the “mast” in “mastodon” is the same one as in “mastectomy”

Fun fact: in Spaniard’s Spanish “estar constipado” means “to have a cold”.

I asume you mean “in the USA”? I mean, there are many countries in which life sentence isn’t a thing.

I asume you mean “in the USA”? I mean, there are many countries in which life sentence isn’t a thing.

ncdu

That must be really frustrating.

Don’t they complain about hypochondriacs?

If I hadn’t heard about Andre Agassi’s autobiography I’d read this tweet as a joke, but now I’m not sure any more.

I thought you couldn’t be snob and captain obvious at the same time, but here we are.

On the other hand, with your degree in linguistics are you granted a special permission to use random capitals?

Idiot language pedant? I mean, the difference between it’s/its is just a matter of basic grammar. We’re not talking here about some obscure feature of the English language. And to be honest, the “fuck off” part was kind of off-key, if you ask me.

None of us here have invented the rules of the English language (or, for that matter, any other language). But once these rules are given, let’s try to use them as best as we can.

I refuse to believe that distinguishing between “its” and “it’s” is complicated (you just need to know that “it’s” is a contraction of “it is”). Rather, I believe that most people simply don’t want to take their 0.01 seconds to think of the correct case: “I’ll be understood just the same.”

Or in other words: I’m sure that if you gave a prize of, say, $100 to a group of people for correctly placing “its/it’s” in a hundred sentences, more than 90% would do it correctly in all of them.

From my point of view, the number of times “its/it’s” is written incorrectly does not measure how difficult the English language is but rather the number of people who bother to try to write it correctly.

I wonder how much of a brain is needed to tell it’s from its.

Mint + xfce

And so do mastodon and mastectomy (not a joke).

Juan Gómez Jurado

Very close :)

Just to get an idea what I mean when I say the stations are close to each other

It’s in Spain. Because for some reason (probably a war?) in some regions we have the standard gauge as well as the “narrow” one.

In the city where I live there are two train stations, next to each other, and with different track gauges.