A vicious racket with its arms around your children?

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Hi, last week I visited the youth club of a small German town and they had this poster on the wall:

Do you think the “it’s” is just a typo or did the manufacturer make this mistake on purpose?[YSaerTTEW443543]

TOEFL listening lectures: A lecture from an American History class[YSaerTTEW443543]

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Do you spend your free time looking for English errors, Torsten?

And wouldn’t “manufacturer” of a poster be more idiomatically found as printer or artist?

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Since you touched this “touchy” subject ;), I’d like to twaddle about a guy from the UK who works for the same company I do.
He always writes something like this “it’s component must be removed”.
I wonder if he’s illiterate, or just sloppy in his ways of writting
In my book, drawing a distinction between “it’s” and “its” is one of the easiest parts of English. It’s much harder to figure out when we use “a” or “the” or leave a blank space

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I wonder if he’s illiterate, or just sloppy in his ways of [color=red]writting.

Writing. :wink:

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Thanks !
Alex.

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I wonder who does…

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BTW, Torsten, I suggest you check the typo in your title.

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Who does what?

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By the way, does anyone of you happen to know who issued those posters and when? Was it the Commissioner of the US Bureau of Narcotics in the 40ies?[YSaerTTEW443543]

TOEFL listening discussions: A conversation between two university students (2)[YSaerTTEW443543]