Your vs. You\'re [MERGED]

[Todd]

rotfl

[derickw]

What does it really matter. is someone sending me a gold star if i spell correctly. i know what your say\'n and you know what i\'m say\'n.

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn\'t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt!

[JSleeper240]

I can\'t stand when you go into a store or restaurant and they have a sign that says "No shirt, no shoe\'s, no service", the shoes do not belong to anyone.  Or something like "Hat\'s - $4", again, no ownership. It contradicts good grammar and is a shame because kids and other people see it and assume it\'s the proper usage, almost enforces it.
I, like others on this board am a victim of the East Haven school system, but hey, I tuned out just fine...kinda, right

[jocelyn]

i\'m in good standing on this subject.

for the record, i\'ve seen freddie drop a lot of:

"of coArse."
^^^^^^^(wanted to make that plural but wasnt sure if there is an apostrophe after the \'e\' or not)  

Well there is definitely an apostrophe in "wasn\'t."

[jocelyn]

i\'m in good standing on this subject.

Capital "I" BITCH!  Use you\'re damn shift key its not hard, their are even too of them!  Oh yeah, definitly is definetly a word that noone nose how two spell!

"TWO" of them BITCH!

[skalnbyc]

What does it really matter. is someone sending me a gold star if i spell correctly. i know what your say\'n and you know what i\'m say\'n.

Grammatical mistakes don\'t mesh well in a professional environment (casual organizations/entities included).  Sure they are harmless mistakes online, but many new entrants into the working world do not know how to properly communicate with their coworkers (email) or with external parties such as clients.  This becomes a major competitive disadvantage in one\'s career.

[Gordo]

i\'m in good standing on this subject.

Capital "I" BITCH!  Use you\'re damn shift key its not hard, their are even too of them!  Oh yeah, definitly is definetly a word that noone nose how two spell!

what? you wanna go fucker?

 :hand:

palease bro.

 

[Gordo]

i\'m in good standing on this subject.

Capital "I" BITCH!  Use you\'re damn shift key its not hard, their are even too of them!  Oh yeah, definitly is definetly a word that noone nose how two spell!

"TWO" of them BITCH!

did jocelyn miss the whole point of Wolfy\'s post here?
errors:
1.you\'re -- your
2.its -- it\'s
3.their -- there
4.too -- two
5.definitly/definetly -- definitely
6.noone -- no one
7.nose -- knows
8.two -- to

all you call out is the TWO........ BIATCH!

[jocelyn]

lol ooopsies probably would have noticed the others if I wasn\'t so stuck on the one... ha... and not noticing the others caused me to miss the whole point of the post... he hehe

[antbach]

I\'ll back Sleeper up on the East Haven school system. We all turned out aight, for the most part. And I honestly think that people no wich term of the multipal usage words they meen to say, but when tiping the fingers go wear they want.

Then again, as I stated, I am a product of the East Haven Ejukayshun Sistum, so what do i no?

[FrankZappa]

I remeber dave emailing something years ago. (pre-board i think) about how when we read, we only look at the first and last letter of the word, so you can change everything around inside and people can still understand it. The whole email was written in that style as well. Kinda like this:

Icnnnoet Hrary
Bkore dwon on the raod
Ndeeed aitssscane blday
Got out to wlak hmoe
He saw smoe lhitgs
Hlep is on the way
The wnid was kckiin\' taht nhigt
A mialtcurk was dleday

Hrary look yuor wtis are on the pmaeenvt
I\'m srue you wree a good guy iigltlnneet
If you uesd yuor biran it may not cmae tihs aedicnct
But who wlil konw no one wlil konw yuor rael itnent
His rael itnent...

Was he a dgnear teakr
Iraentrbeid
A Czary gzear
Liokong for raod haed
It was mroe suieros
Lnae atcprpeiioan
He lvoed wtihe lhigt
The rsik dmeicitaon

An FLA nvaite who ctomeetlpand
The qistueon is, is his lfie wtorh svain\'
And who dvore by but Sveatn on vtaacoin
And saw the fanil suttiiaon waht a smahe man
Waht a smahe man...

He\'s Hrad Lcuk Hrary, say bye to a good guy

[Gordo]

What does it really matter. is someone sending me a gold star if i spell correctly. i know what your say\'n and you know what i\'m say\'n.

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn\'t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt!

[boombox]

i don\'t know why but f-ed up grammar irritates the hell out of me
ESPECIALLY
 
unnecessary apostrophes EVERYWHERE!!!

I am with you on this: I recently saw some signs in a window for an advertising company promoting "CD\'s". Whose CDs for Zarquod\'s sake?!!

However, the worst misuse of the apostrophe has to be in 1960\'s, 1970\'s etc.

For a very humorous analysis of punctuation, I suggest the following:
"Eats Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss. It was Book of the Year in 2004 over here.

[jocelyn]

i don\'t know why but f-ed up grammar irritates the hell out of me
ESPECIALLY
 
unnecessary apostrophes EVERYWHERE!!!

I am with you on this: I recently saw some signs in a window for an advertising company promoting "CD\'s". Whose CDs for Zarquod\'s sake?!!

However, the worst misuse of the apostrophe has to be in 1960\'s, 1970\'s etc.

For a very humorous analysis of punctuation, I suggest the following:
"Eats Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss. It was Book of the Year in 2004 over here.

I think the it\'s not a matter of whose cds, but a matter of \'what does the cd possess?\' With an apostophe after the \'d\' I think it implies that the cd has something. The cd\'s __________. The cd\'s crummy pop songs made me nauseous. The cd\'s label has some slutbag on it. Etc.

This is REALLY important. heh.

[Wolfman]

However, the worst misuse of the apostrophe has to be in 1960\'s, 1970\'s etc.

Maybe it\'s different in the UK and we just stupidized it in America, but this is actually the appropriate grammar.  Plural abbreviations and numbers get an apostrophe before the S so there is not confusion as to whether the S is part of the abbreviation or number.  i.e. UFO\'s, POW\'s, 1960\'s.  The possessive for an abbreviation or number looks exactly the same as the plural, so it is up to the reader to know whether the author intended a possessive or a plural.  It\'s usually not hard to figure out.