I am French, and although I would not go as far as in the example, my English tends to be quite academic. I am getting tired of having to send bug reports to games or other software because the text mixes up "it's" and "its", "then" and "than", or "effect" and "affect".
Its more of a casual thing. English speakers dont feel the need to speak proper all the time because its casual to them. The non english speakers learned proper so thats the only English they know.
Not quite, we also watch movies and hang on the internet. Non-native can also speak lolcat or ghetto, but when they do, it's by choice. I doubt that those who write "it's" for "its" do it because it's casual; they simply don't know their own grammar.
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