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learn the rule: your / you're
- your is a possessive adjective, indicating ownership of something
- That is your sock.
- Where is your potato?
- you're is a contraction (combination) of you and are
- Do you know what you're doing?
- You're stupid.
- The two are not interchangeable.
- Getting it wrong makes you look stupid. And ugly.
still confused? let ross explain it for you.
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rant box - let it all out
Michael said People who tell me I'm ignorant when I ignore them. This is definitely the thing I hate the most. I can no longer ignore these ignorant people. 
Cassidy said Right now a trending topic on twitter is #yournotmytype really? REALLY!? The worst part is it's more popular than the other trending topic #urnotmytype. Is it just me or is the second one not as terribly wrong, but still really really wrong.
Clair said Whenever I see someone make this mistake, my heart is overcome with rage.
RAGE.
James said What bugs me more is all lowercase. Ughhh.. Hahaha.
Blasphemy! said I don't really mind if uneducated people make grammar mistakes. I usually expect it. I absolutely hate it though, when college educated people make this kind of stupid mistake: "your pretty" - Excuse me? What about my pretty? UGH! Seriously?! You have a college degree?! OMFG!!!!
Lol said *shudder* ugh!
Laars Johnsen said Your out of you're mind!
Saulo said I live in Brazil and I've never been to any english speaking country. I learnt the language on courses + internet usage. I also happen to know lots of people that speak english over here.. Neither me nor them commit the your/you're mistake. That means we kinda understand the underlying structure of what we speak. Mostly native english speakers commit this mistake. Wich means they deserve more language classes! What do you think?
David Pugh said I have an excellent script on Adium (Mac's MSN portal) which allows me to link them to a variety of pictures explaining the differences between your/you're, its/it's and their/there/they're! My chance to bug them back for being wrong!
Dave said Notice how all these comments are written by women. Men don't care about the English language as long as their thoughts are passed across.
Cassidy said Right now a trending topic on twitter is #yournotmytype really? REALLY!? The worst part is it's more popular than the other trending topic #urnotmytype. Is it just me or is the second one not as terribly wrong, but still really really wrong.
Clair said Whenever I see someone make this mistake, my heart is overcome with rage.
RAGE.
James said What bugs me more is all lowercase. Ughhh.. Hahaha.
Blasphemy! said I don't really mind if uneducated people make grammar mistakes. I usually expect it. I absolutely hate it though, when college educated people make this kind of stupid mistake: "your pretty" - Excuse me? What about my pretty? UGH! Seriously?! You have a college degree?! OMFG!!!!
Lol said *shudder* ugh!
Laars Johnsen said Your out of you're mind!
Saulo said I live in Brazil and I've never been to any english speaking country. I learnt the language on courses + internet usage. I also happen to know lots of people that speak english over here.. Neither me nor them commit the your/you're mistake. That means we kinda understand the underlying structure of what we speak. Mostly native english speakers commit this mistake. Wich means they deserve more language classes! What do you think?
David Pugh said I have an excellent script on Adium (Mac's MSN portal) which allows me to link them to a variety of pictures explaining the differences between your/you're, its/it's and their/there/they're! My chance to bug them back for being wrong!
Dave said Notice how all these comments are written by women. Men don't care about the English language as long as their thoughts are passed across.
» Tim replied Nope, you're just an idiot.
» I replied This was linked to me by a guy…
» Jen replied The owner of this website is a guy...
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