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Why does everyone, and I mean everyone-be it on myspace, msn, and most forums-say "your" when it's mean to be "you're"? I don't actually care about that stuff (after all, my typing is often trash, and it's the internets), but this is beginning to make me feel a little insane. The amount of times I've seen "your an idiot", "your pathetic", "your x y and z" or even "your going to do x y and z" is reaching an alarmingly high level. |
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beacause your dum lol |
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is this you're newspaper? |
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that was so predictable. |
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Word to that! Think how an italian can feel ' _ ' |
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your prediqtabl |
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Most people are stupid. |
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ur gay |
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I try but I still mess up quite a lot Luckiey its the inrternets lolololm LLoL!!!111123456! |
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time for tea |
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my local witch's cat smells of pumpkin. |
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you're right ; that's a bad habit ; but internet also is a bad habit |
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ooops! |
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it is indeed. I've realised I probably spend more time online, in this frightening virtual world, then I do in the real world. Very sad. Oh well. |
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your teh thoughest :) |
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I use internet shorthand all the time... cant be arsed on here. And I'm an english student. I believe the correct parlance to abbreviate the phase 'you are' is 'UR'... |
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What?? Madness. It takes far too long to hold the shift key down and type. |
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My gf's pet peeve. She'd have such a boner over this thread if her clit was any longer than 2 inches. |
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yes sorry - lowercase I believe is the grammatically correct way to write it. Quote from Shakespeare: Lady Macbeth - Macbeth, ur next in line to b king, kill ur father Macbeth - LOL |
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Macduff: Duncan? DUNCAN?? OMG! |
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yeah, we've been through this. shocking isn't it. tsk tsk |
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Thank goodness people still make threads about this. This phenomenon doesn't piss me off any less since the first time i witnessed it. Who will do the 'there, their, they're' thread? I might have done one a while ago. Not sure. |
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hahahahahahha, well done. Though, I should expect such a verbatim quote from an english major, I suppose. |
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hahahahahhahahaha brilliant! |
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I've been corrected on my use of you're before. I'll try and find it because it was fucking hilarious how wrong they got it. Fucking idiot. I showed it to redrum. Maybe he'll find it quicker. |
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ah yeah, got that in an email i'll do the search now, was good stuff |
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QUOTE(giginger @ Oct 30 2005, 07:43 PM) * You're right. There are stupid threads. by THERE you really should have put THEY'RE which is short for THEY ARE. which means you basically wrote They are are stupid threads. think before you call someone or something stupid. GOD DAMN. weird how this one gets by. |
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not all americans are mad all americans are not mad which one is correct? |
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That's the one. What a fuck up. |
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The 1st one but the 2nd one is acceptable if you're Jim Morrison. |
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m-hm, m-hm... *takes notes* what do you associate with this figure? |
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lose loose leprechaun |
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rape |
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good, good. I will dispatch these results to "the central" immediately. |
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NAH ON TEH INTERWEB U HAV TO TYPE ALL CAPS |
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right.. while I'm here... I have a little trouble with one grammatical point about appostrophes. I know that you say, "that is the woman's hat" and you also say "those are the womens' hats" but what do you do if the word already ends in an "s"? Would you write.. "Cygnus' ego" or "Cygnus's ego"? because it's a singular word and so it should be apostrophe s but it already ends in an s and i have a vague recollection of my English teacher telling me years ago that if it does, you miss off the 2nd s after the apostrophe |
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that is a very good question,erm redrum |
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"not all americans are mad" I think this one is saying that americans are not necassarily mad and... "all americans are not mad" is saying that americans are all inherently non-mad. |
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the your you're thing pisses me off a great deal. |
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haha you're on the rampage! :D excellent question and one i had to put to my english teacher myself. Basically, the apostrophe after the s is usually for plurals: The tables' legs The cats' ears (when talking about many tables and many cats). When it comes to names, it's a bit trickier and the rule-of-thumb which I go by is that if you say "es" at the end, when talking, to denote possession, then you add an extra 's instead of just an apostrophe - Aengus's love for prawns cygnus's love for phat beats There are some exceptions to this - I think you're meant to say "Jesus" even when it's the possessive - Jesus' death should be said as "Jesus. Death.", even though i'd say "Jesuses death" myself. it's a tricky one. tubs of respect for a pertinent and worthwhile question on language usage :) |
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True, and that's how I always do it, but more and more I see  s's  - I've seen it in film posters, novels, science journals. I don't know what to think any more. |
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and not just for names. (see how I started the sentence with "and" - and I didn't use an upper-case A either! what a rebel) |
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Hate to be anal but "the womens' hats" is wrong... its "the women's hats"... I believe. |
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Oh you love it really :) |
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i find UR more annoying then your |
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underground resistance? |
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I find when people write "then" when they mean "than" even more annoying than that. Like just then. I find it annoying when I type 'that' instead of 'than', but that's just a typo. |
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omg zing, i didn't even notice that shame on you, sophie! |
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Steak and Chips. |
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NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOO YOU'RE ALL WRONG. IM RIGHT! ITS THE HATS BELONGING TO THE WOMENNNN. both plural therefore womens' isnt it?! |
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