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 Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:11 pm
I always say that to someone who says "your" instead of "you're". It drives me NUTS that they use the possessive and not the contraction form.
Stupid person: Your funny!
Me: My funny what?
How do you feel about the your/you're thing?
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 8:33 am
I don't usually say it, but I always think it.
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:45 am
Same here. I figure they won't understand what I'm getting at, so I just leave it alone. It is my biggest spelling pet peeve next to the period/comma-outside-quotation-marks pest.
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Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 11:59 am
Satin Kiss Same here. I figure they won't understand what I'm getting at, so I just leave it alone. It is my biggest spelling pet peeve next to the period/comma-outside-quotation-marks pest. Well, in some cases, the commas and periods go outside quotation marks, like if you're referring to a word. Ex: The word on the board was "catastrophe". The period goes outside because no one is saying the word.
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Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:07 pm
The whole your/you're misspelling kills me, but I never say anything. If you're stupid enough to mix up simple words like that, then it is unlikely that you'll understand a correction. It's almost as bad as the its/it's and there/their/they're, but your/you're should be easier to understand.
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:49 am
It's horribly embarassing on bilboards and company tag lines.
"We're you're friend!" wahmbulance Wrong. It's your.
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 5:31 am
XWraith_LordX It's horribly embarassing on bilboards and company tag lines. "We're you're friend!" wahmbulance Wrong. It's your.^ ^ You saw THAT on a billboard? Is English the native language in your country?
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:44 pm
Vampyr Heartagram XWraith_LordX It's horribly embarassing on bilboards and company tag lines. "We're you're friend!" wahmbulance Wrong. It's your.^ ^ You saw THAT on a billboard? Is English the native language in your country? Yes. Yes it is. stare The ironic thing is that none of my friends who know English as a second langauge make that mistake, but native speakers do it far too often. confused
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:43 pm
Ooh, I heartily dislike that mistake. If I see that I made it on accident, I'll fix it in a jiffy.
If someone else made the error, I'll probably just ignore it unless it's repeated frequently.
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:46 pm
I always correct people when they use 'your' incorrectly. I can't stand it.
Unfortunately, I am more worried about using "you're" where it should be than using "your" where it should be. Thus, on rare occasion, I actually use "you're" where it should say "your"..... (But don't tell anybody, it's rare. No really, it is.)
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:23 am
XWraith_LordX It's horribly embarassing on bilboards and company tag lines. "We're you're friend!" wahmbulance Wrong. It's your.Ignoring the obvious homophone mix-up for a moment, should friend be singular if they've used we?
On topic, I don't always say anything, but I have been known too. Especially with the better-educated.
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:09 pm
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Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 5:12 pm
It bugs the hell out of me. It is kind of funny when "noobs" do something thinking they're smart though. For instance, I once read on a poster created by an idiot in my class "Drive You're Bike, Not You're Car." Ha, it's still funny!
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 4:20 am
I had a long moment when the apostrophe on my keyboard wouldn't work. If I ncouldn't use the apostrophe, I would just type out "youre".
And then I woud apologize, saying that my keyboard was being a butt.
And, I have seen, in an Honors English Class, written by the teacher, this hell:
{{Your a good student! Keep up the good work!}}
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