"your" vs. "you're"

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i agre, yr sooo rite :Ph

YES. And to instead of too. Or there instead of they're... Yuck, I could go on for pages.

no i get angry to the point OF YELLING WHEN PEOPLE ARE GRAMMAR NAZIS WHO CARES!

I care. Teachers care. Professors care. If you don't care, someone's gonna make you by failing your sorry ass out of school.

Oh yeah that's my favourite. about the people insulting you and making those mistakes.

My favourite is "your so dumb" lol, I mean if you're going to call me dumb, at least use better grammar than a preteen when you're doing it.

haha you're right

your rite

@:ritaskeeter

you mean, "you're right". Don't you?
:|

you sound like me, hah. i flip out on people for having bad grammar.

... People don't have hovering subtitles when they talk so how can you tell when people are saying "your" instead of "you're". I don't really understand, unless you're a hermit who prefers written correspondence over actual human communication...

Well it can be annoying but is really a reflection of the person making these kind of errors.

Well it depends on the situation. I understand what you mean in Mailing and video game designing but when you are playing a MMO game people type as fast as they can and then it becomes a habbit for every thing. Plus English is your 4th language but you may have like a really high IQ

I don't get what you're on about, when you say you're or your it sounds the same, it's only different when you spell it.

If you're talking about written English, fair enough.

I don't know what country your from but I'm from Britain and it sounds the same to me.

I am amazed at how often I encounter this kind of grammatical floundering in online blogs, and it depresses the hell out of me more than it scares me. I assume that the person is either: a) too young to have mastered the basics of English grammar, b) a pathetic loser, or c) part of a burgeoning new breed of vulgar, uneducated civilians, much like the movie 'idiocracy' depicts. I guess b and c are identical...thou art totally normal to be pissed off...

It is normal to be slightly annoyed by it. Everyone has a pet peeve. It is not normal to be angry about it, though. It isn't that big of a deal.

WOW. 4 languages? What are they? Anyways, I award you with two medals:

One in being able to discern the use of your and you're.

The other in managing to brag about how smart and narrow-minded you are.

High five!

Since when is using proper grammar, narrow mindedness?

I award you the medal of stupidity for not nowing the meaning of narrow mindedness. High five asshole!

*knowing

I'm sure you won't read this...

ha yeah i always get annoyed by that

You are right but don't get angry it's a bit sad.

Me too. You don't even know how much it bothers me. I mean is it really that hard to get it right?

OMG YES.
I am a grammar and spelling freak. If something is spelled wrong or is grammatically incorrect, I have to change it or spaz out at whoever wrote it. Hmm...I wonder if I have mild OCD?

Your right! your totally right!

LOL!!!

You are entirely correct, but honestly you might want to consider more beer and less grammar. Kick back have a beer, cerveza, lager, biiru, beoir, utshwala. What ever you want to call it.

I care, many people care, teachers care, professionals care, doctors care, lawyers care, authors care...

I TOTALLY agree with you!! It also drives me nuts!

I'm sorry, but if your worried about how someone spells your and you're over the internet then it means you're spending WAY TO MUCH TIME ON THE INTERNET!


No one but Teachers, grammer freaks and other losers care about that kind of thing. If knowing the difference between you/you're is so important why are teachers some of the lowest paid slubs on the planet?

As in "Where's your pay check?" "You're getting railroaded!"

P.S. Having temper tantrums about the peoples grammer is not healthy. Normal people try to save their anger for issues that are a little more important.

yeh same i'm heaps like this too

people piss me off like this tons on msn, saying 'to' instead of 'too' etc

I didn't plan on registering or leaving any comments. I just discovered this website and was browsing to kill some time. When I read this post, though, I had to comment!!! Seriously, it is so frustrating how pathetic some people are. It's not that freaking hard to use the correct words and grammar when writing... I know it's casual and informal, but come on!! Do you want to come across as an idiot?
I understand typos. I understand not using caps or punctuation sometimes, nobody's grading you on this shit. But if you're spelling something wrong, and it's not a typo, and YOU KNOW IT'S WRONG OR YOU'RE NOT SURE about it, LOOK IT UP!!! All you have to do is google it nowadays. Don't be lazy. If you are going to spend all this time on the computer, why not educate yourself? Use spell check every once in a while, learn from your mistakes. It seriously pisses me off when someone is corrected and they say they don't care. So, you don't care that people think you're dumb? Ok....
And trust me, to people who DO care, it says a lot about you.
And it's not just "your" and "you're", as others have also mentioned. There are so many dumb mistakes out there.
It especially pisses me off when someone is trying to prove a point and they obviously can't spell, are unaware of simple grammar rules and can't construct a proper sentence. It's fucking pathetic. Bottom line.

Oh, my god, I could not agree more.

I cannot TOLERATE illiterate douchebags who can't spell, it just screams 'IGNORANT'

Especially when there are misspelled words on the sign for a business, like those damn convenience stores...

YOU'RE just picky about grammar thats just YOUR personal preferance. lol notice the your and the you're ya i no im clever

Lol! I accidentally used "your" instead of "you're" in a comment I just posted. I had just posted it and was reading through it and noticed I misused the word "your". Goddamnit! I remembered seeing this story about someone that hated it when those words are incorrectly used so I just had to come and confess my sins. It's too bad that you can't edit your comment after it's been posted. Is it normal to be irritated with common misspellings...sure it is, but remember that no one is immune to making spelling mistakes or grammatical errors. Not even you OP.

You hit it exactly on the spot. This pisses me off so much. Btw everyone, I've said this 'your' thing so many times to various people, that

Oh and you're is contractive.

Haha, I find it really annoying too.
Why can people not take time to type the correct words and fix their mistakes?
Is there really one good reason why they can't?

Crazy phyco's your all crazy. its tha fukkin internet not a classroom. it jus makes u look like a silly ass nerd person who will never get skinz. YOUR YOUR YOUR YOUR YOUR YOUR YOUR YOUR A Geeeeek

your fucking stupid and if you get mad for this you seriously have some mental problems that you should be more concern with.

Yeah. I do it all the time. But, I really don't like it when they put it on paper. It angers me to a point where I basically have to scream into a pillow. Haha. But yes, it is normal.

Your right;Grammer mistakes are so childish.Dont' even get me starteed on punc,tuation?I have had to "much" of this nonsense.Even young childs dont make grammer mastakes butt/dont let it get u down*

People who confuse "your" and "you're" need shooting.

That made me cry a little inside.

Have u ever thouht that we just dont care about spelling and grammar when writing stuff on the internet.

And who cares about failing classes, i dropped out coz i just didnt care enough to stay and now im making £80 grand a year as a programer!

it takes too much time out of our busy lives.... haven't you noticed everything is getting abbreviated lol lmao smh 2 morrow etc.. its just a way of shortening it lol.... not that hard to pick up

It's the same shit with then and than... it's so fucking annoying.

You're normal. Well, unless you consider normal as the majority and the majority of people are ignorant and illiterate and don't even care that they're ignorant, then you would not be normal. But in the classic definition of normal, you're normal.

I also can't stand "ur". That makes me want to hurt people. But I can't because I'm a psychologist and I need to approach things from a logical perspective. The "realist" in me still compels me to want to hit these people though. That would solve nothing and they would still be ignorant and illiterate but it would feel better for me for a few hours :)

I know what you mean. Mistakes happen, but not knowing the difference is a sure measure of ones intelligence (or lack thereof!!!)

ahh i HATE it so much!!
and "his" instead of "he's"
or "loose" instead of "lose"
im always blowing up about this to my best friend...it just pushes me over the edge.

"your an idiot. his going to loose it"

go to hell!!!

I read some of the comments and I think it's ridiculous to say it DOESN'T MATTER. Of course it matters. English is my second language and it pisses me off to no end that people whose mother tongue it is are so ignorant of English.

It doesn't matter if you're in a hurry or you're, IDK, whatever, some random punk or beefhead. I mean, why bother wiping your ass? Because it's nasty, unhealthy and difficult to get out afterward if you don't. Language isn't a plastic spoon to be dirtied and then thrown away; you can argue for 'this is what people actually use' and so on but laziness isn't an acceptable reason to... to... GAH.

Now I'm angry thinking about it :|

yes it is normal to hate the dickheads who cannot differentiate your and you're. they are shameful and should be exterminated.

another case of uptight people complaining about stupid shit............do me a favor research the beatniks and free writing u morons........ ill give u this not knowing the differencs is a whole different story though

i just typ ur...u kno cuz its faster...