Grammar... YOUR THE BEST

Post Reply New Topic

The irony...

Oh 15 or so, we as a family were bowling. I kept score and in the good ole' days you used pencil & paper. I wrote our names on the score sheet in a column. There were four of us. Myself, dad, cousin, and Gym. My dad look at that and couldn't contain himself

i had to look twice.

I hardly ever post in threads like these anymore because I've stated my case many times before.

I generally swear a cruel and bloody vengeance on whomever dares deface an otherwise healthy contraction into the vile husk of an utterance known as "your". I love grammar. It's a great source of hyperbole =D.

Post closed.

Last edited by Mdyar on 06 Jan 2012, 12:18 am, edited 1 time in total.

^^^^hahaha well, this isn't exactly the same thing, but i recently posting this on another thread (i was laughing at... what?):

of - have, it came up already.

might of been
would of been

where as - whereas


Don't get me wrong, I'm not good at languages in general, but I take the time and effort to at least trying to be grammatically (and semantically) correct. I can't speak for others, though. There are people with more severe problems with language / writing.

Well, it's inspiring to know that I'm not posting into the deep blue sea. Glad you got a laugh.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3y0CD2CoCs[/youtube]

It worked.

^ I David Mitchell.

ne1 = Anyone

This one is actualy the most annoying for me. "Your" doesn't bug me in the least.

Hey, yeah I've gotten terrible at grammar after I started to hate English classes... Mostly what bothers me is when people use the wrong words. It's like... We use these words because we know what they mean. It just further strengthens my feelings of enmity towards the social hive. Everyone seems to do things without ever questioning why... Just living a mechanical and meaningless existence. The purpose of which is to simply continue existing. Using words without truly knowing what they mean is one example of just doing what everyone else is doing. Or just doing things without a true meaning... Or something. It's hard for me to verbalize my feelings on this matter.

I do not consider the distinction between 'your' and 'you are' to be a spelling error, because those are completely different words. That'd be like saying 'cat' is a misspelling of 'dog.' I don't get bothered by spelling errors that much, because people are only human, and if they don't know the tricks/patterns to spelling, then spelling all the words properly is a matter of memorizing every single word.

Then again, I'm not an expert, and I make plenty of these mistakes too. So, I'm just a hypocrite, but I've never disputed that.
Hm. I missed a question mark in my original post, didn't I?

EDIT: I realized from the start that my pronunciation of the words was not necessarily correct. I was just being pedantic. I tend to be like that.
Also, nice videos. I particularly like the one about language by Stephen Fry. That offered an interesting perspective that I hadn't thought of before. Nice feeling after watching it.

Also, related:

Your and you're and pronounced exactly the same so it is easy to get them mixed up.

If it was not for spell check I could not post on these forums at all. Don't you think that this thread is a bit elitist?
It makes people who are not grammar geniuses feel stupid.

I learned spelling and grammar in school years ago. I would write very good papers that deserved an A and my grade would be marked down to a C because of that damned grammar.

Some people may be dyslexic or have other learning disabilities. I had trouble learning to read and spelling and grammar were nearly impossible for me.
While people that make grammar mistakes annoy you Grammar Nazis offend me.

We're just the second spell check. If correcting people makes us elitist then I can't imagine what your opinion is on teachers. Feeling stupid for not being a "grammar genius" just means you do actually care about it and if it makes you feel that bad then maybe it's time to start improving.


Some of the best things about typing on the internet are the easily accessible online dictionaries and the lack of a time constraint. If someone can't be bothered to look a word up if they're not sure how it's spelled or if they feel they have to rush then that person can expect to be corrected on any mistakes.