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"Moreso" technically is incorrect
; it's one of those things that works in some situations and not in others. In the example you linked, I'd've gone with "more so". I haven't the foggiest idea how "its" isn't a word; that's the whole point of the "its vs. it's" problem. Can you provide a link to that?
Its/it's is already grounds for a talking to.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
No? I feel like you're cherry-picking their edits. Going down their history, here is the first edit concerning it's/its, correcting its use by changing "an episode covering it's history" to "an episode covering its history".
Okay, it seems I've gotten mlsmithca confused with another Troper on the "its" problem. I'm very sorry about that.
That said, should they maybe get a rudeness notifier?
Perhaps. Those edit reasons are a tad snippy.
I'll cop to, and apologise for, snippy edit reasons, but spelling "more so" as one word is rampant on the wiki, and, as Willbyr says, it's technically incorrect. Honestly, it just gets wearying finding yet more instances of it, hence the snippy edit reason.
And "its" is most definitely a word - a possessive determiner meaning "belonging to it". "It's" is a contraction of "it is" or "it has", but is all too often misused in place of "its". And "its'", with the apostrophe after the "s", is not a proper word, yet is also commonly misused instead of "its".
General rule of thumb: replace "it's" in a sentence with "it is" or "it has". Does it make sense? If so, "it's" is correct, and if not, "its" is more likely correct.
Edited by mlsmithca
Right—again, apologies for confusing you with someone else.
No apology needed. :)
I'm not sure if this is a problem or not, so I'll ask here. Tropers/mlsmithca has been doing grammar corrections on pages and I'm not sure if they're "corrections".
They've been changing "moreso" to "more so", insisting that it's two words instead of one. Thing is, though, a quick search says that it's kind of a coin-toss thing? Like it isn't technically correct but there's nothing wrong with using it, really. They also say "its" is not a word, even though it is: its is possessive, ie "the dog wagged its tail."
Other than that, I kind of question their tone in their edit reasons. Such as here
: "More. So." Is. Two. Words."