What's your favorite Beer?

[Seul]

VAN DAYUM is an absolute peach of a name for a beer… For a turtle even, come to think of it... (Mental note: buy pet turtle and name it VAN DAYUM...)

Old school ale: what's that all about, neph?.. Hoppy, malty, alt?..

[neph93]

It was a hoppy ale (mostly chinook) with a lot more taste than it’s 5.5%ABV would suggest.

[Seul]

ITS 5.5%… Who the hell is paying you to be a teacher???

[neph93]

@Seul:

ITS 5.5%… Who the hell is paying you to be a teacher???

Very wise people who know that apostrofes can be used to show ownership as well as in contractions.

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000131.htm

[Seul]

I'm blaming this on Mars being too damn close to Earth…

Y'ALL HEARD ME!..

[neph93]

@Seul:

I'm blaming this on Mars being too damn close to Earth…

[emoji1]

To be fair it was quite an idiomatic formulation so easy to misunderstand.

[Aetas]

It's a fake, but I'm blaming it on Mars…..

[Seul]

Eeziomatiks?.. Great, now I'm completely lost.

[neph93]

@Aetas

These guys from NZ release consistently solid stuff. This was no exception.

[Chris]

@neph93:

@Seul:

ITS 5.5%… Who the hell is paying you to be a teacher???

Very wise people who know that apostrofes can be used to show ownership as well as in contractions.

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000131.htm

No, that's just wrong.  Sorry, but no.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/usage/its-or-it-s

[neph93]

Google «possesive apostrofe». It was taught that way to me and is taught that way in every text book I’ve ever seen. Sumfink fønni  going on ere.

[neph93]

Upon further reading I’m understanding the issue better. «It» as a pronoun should logically use a progressive apostrofe but «ITS» is a possessive and doesn’t need one. It would seem that I and many other teachers and teachers of teachers are perpetuating the corruption of the English language. Burn baby burn.

[Seul]

So I was right?..

[neph93]

@Seul:

So I was right?..

Well you’re Belgian so you’ll always be a bit wrong, but yes!

[Seul]

[neph93]

Ya see, I’m pleased for you. I’m glad you were right and you deserve all the smugness you want. But don’t bring that bellend Clarkson into it.

Just drank a super fresh Lervig Supersonic to cure thread rot [emoji16]

[Chris]

@neph93:

It would seem that I and many other teachers and teachers of teachers are perpetuating the corruption of the English language. Burn baby burn.

Can't trust the British to teach English properly.

[Seul]

Nope - leave that to the Belgians…

Drinking a nice Westmalle Tripel... VICTORY...

[neph93]

Beer for grammar frauds…

[Chris]

To follow up on the grammar nerd stuff-
He, she, it, and they are third person pronouns.  None of them use apostrophe s to show possession (his, hers, its, their).  While it's an exception to the general rule, it is a somewhat consistent one.