Your/You're

dj jarvis

Jesus - This thread is hell.

you're and your SHOULD be used in context and be grammatically correct....

But , i THINK the OP is getting at the fact that if it is misused in a sentence,
then maybe just maybe, people could refrain from being massive ars2holes about it ?

most time's the incorrect use will be blindingly obvious , but the meaning of the sentence will still be understood - so really why be a dick and pull the poster up on it ?

but OP - a bit of advice, give up - you're onto a loser.

Boards oozes with grammar Nazis, just waiting for some poor fool - you're today's.

gosuckonalemon

dj jarvis wrote: »

Jesus - This thread is hell.

you're and your SHOULD be used in context and be grammatically correct....

But , i THINK the OP is getting at the fact that if it is misused in a sentence,
then maybe just maybe, people could refrain from being massive ars2holes about it ?

most time's the incorrect use will be blindingly obvious , but the meaning of the sentence will still be understood - so really why be a dick and pull the poster up on it ?

but OP - a bit of advice, give up - you're onto a loser.

Boards oozes with grammar Nazis, just waiting for some poor fool - you're today's.

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Defiler Of The Coffin

Scioch wrote: »

I can still talk about it. FFS thats what this website is for, talking about stuff.

Duhhh. But why waste all this time and energy proposing and arguing for something that no-one will ever seriously consider? This thread is complete overkill for something completely trivial. You may as well argue the sky should be painted red.

robbie7730 wrote: »

Just as most threads don`t.

I'm not talking about 'most threads'. I'm asking about this thread in particular. I don't care what other threads achieve or not.

Scioch

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

Duhhh. But why waste all this time and energy proposing and arguing for something that no-one will ever seriously consider? This thread is complete overkill for something completely trivial. You may as well argue the sky should be painted red.

It interests me to discuss it. Is that ok ? I can discuss stuff that interests me on a discussion forum right ? Its AH man, there's nothing in here that will do anything other than waste time and keep people amused.

dj jarvis

gosuckonalemon wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

see what i mean

Bruthal

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

I'm not talking about 'most threads'. I'm asking about this thread in particular. I don't care what other threads achieve or not.

So you care what this thread achieves? Thanks for the laugh:pac:

Pherekydes

dj jarvis wrote: »

But , i THINK the OP is getting at the fact that if it is misused in a sentence,
then maybe just maybe, people could refrain from being massive ars2holes about it ?

I'm pretty sure the OP is agitating for you're to be dropped formally from the English language. Maybe he thinks it's too difficult for the young generation to learn all these grammatical and spelling rules. He suggests that it's only one word, but it's not.

Exactly the same 'logic' could be applied to the contraction of they are. They're sounds the same as their, so let's get rid of it, too. In fact, we can replace both with there.

In fact, it's so difficult to learn a few simple rules involving apostrophes let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of all punctuation marks. That's how the written word started out.

Nofullstopsnocommasnoapostrophesnospaces

It would save a lot of space!

ongarboy

Scioch wrote: »

It interests me to discuss it. Is that ok ? I can discuss stuff that interests me on a discussion forum right ? Its AH man, there's nothing in here that will do anything other than waste time and keep people amused.

Using your logic, should we therefore scrap one from each pair of words below (among countless others) just because they are both identical in sound even though they are both spelt differently and mean completely different things?

pear/pair
sale/sail
read/reed
sell/cell
key/quay
four/fore
etc etc etc

Most people with any basic grasp of English spelling and grammar can decipher the obvious difference between the above words and not use them incorrectly in the same way they can with the words your and you're. Just because you struggle with the appropriate use of these words (and not most people as per your original post) and hence the reason for you creating this thread, is not a good enough reason to expect consensus from others here to agree with you.

Yes, there are grammar nazis out there who nitpick and are over pedantic but I think you would be better served learning not to be so sensitive when they point out such incidents as it appears a past occurence wounded you so much to prompt you to open such a bizarre thread.

Scioch

Actually using my logic we could redefine "your" to take on the meaning of "you're" which itself doesnt necessarily have to be dropped.

Other words are not routinely substituted for one another so they dont come into it. Its not about the words sounding the same its about the fact that one of them is regularly used instead of the other and is understood to have the same meaning when used as such. And I dont struggle with them as I've made quite clear. I choose to use one word and to date have encounted no issues. Odd that seeing as so many people reckon there would be world wide chaos if people did this.

And kindly stop with the whole "where will it end, lets all talk jibberish" crap.

Scioch

ongarboy wrote: »

Yes, there are grammar nazis out there who nitpick and are over pedantic but I think you would be better served learning not to be so sensitive when they point out such incidents as it appears a past occurence wounded you so much to prompt you to open such a bizarre thread.

Actually as is clear from the attitude to grammar nazi's from a moderator point of view. Its counter productive to actual communication. Too many people just have nothing better to do with their lives than pick at and point out mistakes in what everyone else is doing.

And there has been no past occurrence that wound me up. I started the thread as I said because I was pondering on the level of abstraction in language.

Bruthal

Scioch wrote: »

Actually as is clear from the attitude to grammar nazi's from a moderator point of view. Its counter productive to actual communication. Too many people just have nothing better to do with their lives than pick at and point out mistakes in what everyone else is doing.

And there has been no past occurrence that wound me up. I started the thread as I said because I was pondering on the level of abstraction in language.

Before that rule was introduced, it was every few posts it was grammar nazi posters pointing out mistakes, often as an attempt to discredit a posters point of view. Often the poster pointing it out had mistakes in the very post they were being a grammar tool in.

And in this thread, one or two have the same miss use of "your" in previous postings in other threads, that they are saying causes confusion if not used correctly. If nothing, boards can be a laugh at times.

Defiler Of The Coffin

Scioch wrote: »

It interests me to discuss it. Is that ok ? I can discuss stuff that interests me on a discussion forum right ? Its AH man, there's nothing in here that will do anything other than waste time and keep people amused.

That is perfectly fine. Carry on

robbie7730 wrote: »

So you care what this thread achieves? Thanks for the laugh:pac:

Go on, keep putting words in my mouth and completely misinterpreting what I say. If that gives you a laugh then you are easily amused.

Bruthal

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

Go on, keep putting words in my mouth and completely misinterpreting what I say. If that gives you a laugh then you are easily amused.

Id rather go through life easily amused, than easily upset by other peoples minor mistake`s.

Defiler Of The Coffin

robbie7730 wrote: »

Id rather go through life easily amused, than easily upset by other peoples minor mistake`s.

gOOD TOO KNOW