You’re and Your

I see "your" used instead of "you're" a lot on line. Maybe this is just a pet-peeve of mine, but why is it so widely misused?

Your
adj. The possessive form of you.
Used as a modifier before a noun: your boots; your accomplishments.
A person's; one's: The light switch is on your right.
Informal. Used with little or no sense of possession to indicate a type familiar to the listener: your basic three-story frame house.

You're
Contraction of you are. You're welcome.

~wirewise~

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." 

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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."

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.

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"?? 

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Agreeance ;)

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Thanks for raising this very important point, wirewise...

I too, hate improper grammar and spelling... I guess I was just raised in a different time. Yes, pet peeve is a good description.

I also REALLY hate when people end a sentence with a preposition: "Where you at?" ARRRRGH!!!! I will correct them: "Where am I?", and THEN tell them my location.

Odd, really, because I always hated english class, but at least I paid attention (mostly...).

two: A quantity.
too: Also, in addition
to: In a direction toward so as to reach

their, there, they're

It is very difficult to speak correctly in today's day and age, because when/if you do speak correctly, people think of you as snobby, or too good for them. I always have to remember a line I heard on The History Channel... it was a program on the history of the english language. The line was:

"Language serves us, we do not serve language. It is a dynamic tool, that is almost alive, and constantly adapting."

Small consolation, really... Still, I hate dangling prepositions.

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It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

I used to use your instead of you're all the time. Until I was chatting with this Artificial Intellegence chatting thing. (OK I have too much time on my hands)

So when you're chatting with AI what else is there to do but talk doodie. So I tell the thing "Your and idiot" and the reply from the AI bot was "Atleast I know the difference between your and you're." Man, so after I got clowned by a robot. I vowed never to make that mistake again.

Here's the link:
https://demo.vhost.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk-oddcast?botid=a790040cee34ad02

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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.

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While I hate e-slang ie LOL and IC, I cant hate on the grammer thing becuase I am a horrible speller and have horrible grammer. Its not on purpose, im just simple ;)

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Well, you are all in luck today (I could have also use the abbreviated you're) Recently a rather interesting site run by some rather cunning linguists has come to my attention:

The Language Log

This should keep anyone entertained for hours.....

Gus


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Ravendarat wrote:

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While I hate e-slang ie LOL and IC, I cant hate on the grammer thing becuase I am a horrible speller and have horrible grammer. Its not on purpose, im just simple ;)

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I cannot stand "IC"(I see) or "nm"(nevermind)

but "LOL" is appropiate, because it is showing an action that is taking place.

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.

My most hated is the use of the non-existent word " irregardless". Think about that phanthom double negative for a second.

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One time I was talking to my friend. I was not thinking when I said ... "Yea, I was thinking about getting a Tein coilover setup for my mitsubishi. From what I hear supposedly it supposed to be really good for that particular year"

He started laughing real hard at me and repeated "supposedly supposed to" ?

Friend: "damn, that is a lot of variables and uncertainty"

lol

So, I realized how unsure I sounded and I corrected myself. I have not made that mistake since.

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.

Department of Redundancy Department......

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"Supposebly"... the word is supposedly. That one always drives me insane!

gus1] wrote:

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Department of Redundancy Department......

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Always loved that one...

My wife came home after work one day. She had done an interview, and the interviewee said "I have a photostatic remembery". We still laugh about that one!

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It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

In the redundancy dept:  "high-tech technology".  I caught myself almost saying that.

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Build the box so that it performs well in the worst case scenario and, in return, it will reward you at all times.

How about definately, or there instead of their.

It sometimes gives me a headache trying to read some posts. Not only does it make things difficult just to read, but I can't figure out what their actually trying to get resolved.

I use the abbreviations for LOL, ROFL, BTW, etc. I can't deal with it when over half the post is written that way. It's like trying to figure out a rebus without the pictures! Maybe I need to drink more before reading. It might be an easier read.

Internet chat has definitely left grammar and spelling in the back seat lately. YEARS ago when I was doing the IRC chat thing, I was known as the IRC Spell Check. I couldn't stand it. I HATE when I post and realize that I spelled something wrong. Though I think I can edit my posts now that I have 50 under my belt. I'll have to remember that.

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I feel strange. I have deja vu and amnesia at the same time.

John | Manteca, CA

I was trying to stay awake in monitor beach a while ago during some talking head thingy I was teching. The person on stage was the Provincial Minister Of Agriculture..... after she was spewing forth for close to half an hour about subjects we cared less about (lampie was snoring, dude at the other end of the snake was reading a book), she finally utterede a phrase that made us crack up fro the rest of the conference:

Non-Timber Forest Products

Ahhhh...... huh? What? Berries? Moose turds? We still can't figure out, to this very day, what she was referring to. Somehow, this person got elected. Wow.

Gus


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