While &quot;The Economist&quot; squabble over these pedantic style rules, a modest survey of various social media utterances proves a number of native English speakers can&#x27;t figure out simple grammar: It&#x27;s&#x2F;its; there&#x2F;they&#x27;re&#x2F;their; then&#x2F;than; etc.<p>Those six—now seven updated—rules are on a higher intellectual plane than that of the average netizen.<p>I&#x27;d use a metaphor to summarize my observation, but I don&#x27;t want to break the rules.