A vicious racket with its arms around your children?

[Torsten]

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?

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[Molly]

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?

[Lost_Soul]

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

[Molly]

I wonder if he's illiterate, or just sloppy in his ways of writting.

Writing. :wink:

[Lost_Soul]

[Ralf]

[Molly]

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

[Molly]

[Torsten]

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?

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