I feel sorry for you're. It has done nothing wrong and has served a purpose for many years. Now though it seems to be unloved and unused. Should it throw in the towel and disappear into history, replaced by its cousin your?
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Actually one of my bikes is a Saracen. How did you know?
I had to read that several times to understand what you're trying to say. I though perhaps you had let your predictive text run riot and spew forth a semi-coherent stream of text, itself a reflection on your conscious output.
Punctuation, quotation marks and formatting could be your friend, if you'd let them.
I feel sorry for you’re. It has done nothing wrong and has served a purpose for many years. Now though it seems to be unloved and unused. Should it throw in the towel and disappear into history, replaced by its cousin your?
I should of started this thread.
They're complaining about grammar again up there. It is their right to do so but they're quite annoying.
I had to read that several times to understand what you’re trying to say. I though perhaps you had let your predictive text run riot and spew forth a semi-coherent stream of text, itself a reflection on your conscious output.
Punctuation, quotation marks and formatting could be your friend, if you’d let them.
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I get the evolution of language thing, and how many of our phrases were 'wrong' historically, but "your" when used instead of "you're" is truly awful.
I could care less.
What have we got to loose?
There's evolution of language and there's not being able to spell. They are different things and I'm kind-of OK with both, to varying degrees.
As a professional grammar Nazi (journo), I look down with a mixture of pity and scorn at amateurs who try to score points over other internet users not displaying the required level of grammatical expertise... but the comments section on my local newspaper's FB feed does sometimes make me despair for the future of humanity (and explain the big Leave margin here).
Dunno if I had a point really, other than I agree with the sentiment and I'd rather see an apostrophe in the wrong place and someone not even bothering to have a go.
Complaining about shite grammar with shit grammar! Top marks! 😆
What’s grammar got to do with it? She’s such a nice old lady.
But let’s not end this this way; there always was, and there’s a chance there always will be, despite their best efforts, a place for props spellin’.
Their is know knead too remove it.
I honestly though this was about some fancy pants social media platform I’ve never heard of going bust. That’s how much sense the OP made to me.
At least it sounds the same. My pet hate is ‘you’s’ as in the young waitress at the coffee stop strolling up and asking “have you’s decided what you’s are having yet?”
I’ve rarely seen it used correctly since the days of yore
I have made this miss steak a few times be four.
Its a mute point isnt it?
At least it sounds the same
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Some of the apostrophes have found new homes, I've seen a rise in people thinking "his" is spelt "he's".
njee, I'd concede that I missed the point if his sentence was even remotely legible.
Because it was such and effort to interpret, I'd consider my point valid.
I'll note that punctuation (capitalisation and full stops) appear to have been added since my comment; improving it's legibility.
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I’ll note that punctuation (capitalisation and full stops) appear to have been added since my comment; improving it’s legibility
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At least it sounds the same. My pet hate is ‘you’s’ as in the young waitress at the coffee stop strolling up and asking “have you’s decided what you’s are having yet?”
You's is a perfectly cromulent word, you've just misspelled it. "Yous" is the plural of you, she is speaking to 2 or more people, you and you and you ie yous.
Nah I'm talking shit but it does actually make sense
Are there any situations where your and you're can cause loss of clarity if used wrongly? If not I'd say bin you're, if it's not actually adding value.
And to fend off trouble from grammar nazies, we can start an argument about further and farther at the same time to keep them busy.
Can everyone just tow the line please?
“Yous” is the plural of you
In Liverpool "Yous" is the singular.
Frequently heard in "Will yous borrow me...(insert anything you are seeking a loan of)"
My daughter is doing English language at uni. One of my favourite dad games is to pull her up on any grammar mistakes and generally pour scorn on any non standard ways of speaking.
She always retorts with “if it’s understood by the person who you’re communicating with, then it doesn’t matter”. As this is what she has been taught by the linguistics professors.
Fine, but it’s “with whom you’re communicating” dear...
Knowing your shit or knowing you're shit?
The OP's post and thread title are grammatically fine. They could perhaps have done with a few inverted commas, but they're hardly illegible.
EDIT: Sorry, just spotted there may have been a stealth edit 😀
Some author whose name I can't remember said "only break the rules once you've demonstrated you understand them". I've always tried to take that approach in my writing.
Who or whom cared.
