You’re and Your

I agree, poor usage is a pet peeve of mine as well.  Along with the misuse of "your" another big one for me is the misuse of "it's".  "It's" with the apostrophe is a contraction of "it is."  The possessive form is "its" without an apostrophe,  Proper usage: "It's a shame when a speaker blows its voice coil." 

Or how about: "It's a shame when you're so ignorant of proper amplifier usage that your speaker blows its voice coil." 

The number one pet-peeve of mine is...

"Wow, I ran into Chip Foose at the car show, and we were conversating for twenty minutes about wheel design."

The proper usage is "conversing" or converse.

People kill me with .... "call me later, we can conversate about the stereo install" ....... "the women at the club, loved me for some reason last weekend, and I was just conversating with them."

This is funny because there are some new ways of saying things now due to the huge amount of internet conversating (  ).  "Agreeance" is a favorite of mine because, while it is not a word, it somehow pokes fun at internet forum word usage when it is said with all seriousness.  Sort of like an inside joke.  Someone says something, you reply "agreeance".  The big problem with these tongue-in-cheek spelling variations is that a new generation of people are growing up with a much greater confusion of proper spelling than I dealt with in my early years.

Agreeance to that.

But I do have a question:  does it save a lot of time by using "nebody" instead of "anybody"?? 

For myself, being the smart arse that I am (most of the time right Jeff), I cannot stand the posts by members that abbreviate and use slang for everything they write. This just drives me up the wall to the point that I would like to e-smack them upside the head.