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This seriously pisses me off

Doesn't any one besides me know that your is not the same as you're??????

Get it right people.

Examples of use:


  • This is your computer. ie the computer belongs to you.
  • You're fucked in the head. ie shut up.

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PostIcon Posted on: Jun. 11 2000,07:29 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
Yeah
and their, there, they're
too, two, to
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People suck. I hate people.
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PostIcon Posted on: Jun. 11 2000,08:24 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
Wouldn't life be a lot easier without people?

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PostIcon Posted on: Jun. 11 2000,12:31 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
what i hate is when people make mistakes like this on purpose.

eg, some character here

"...some people don't no the difference between "your" and "you're"--its simple really,

or was it just a simple proper mistake, I just cant tell.

Edit: cant have me looking like a tard can me =)

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PostIcon Posted on: Jun. 11 2000,15:12 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
Let me throw my cinco centavos in.

Their, there, and they're.

First off, TH-EI-R....I love the i before e stuff...thbbt.

Their = belonging to them.

They're = they are doing something

There = a place

rant rant rant rant rant

ah, I feel better. One thing I love about these forums, nearly everyone here paid attention during english.

Ack, another one! Here and Hear. Wheee.

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PostIcon Posted on: Jun. 11 2000,16:08 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
who cares u can figure it out if u try. Its really not that hard
But people do suck

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PostIcon Posted on: Jun. 11 2000,18:13 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
the "your" and the "you're" thing gets to me as well. But on a channel where hacker is spelled Hax0r and porn is pr0n, the issue is mute. However speeling 'you're' - 'your' shows a lack of understanding in a written language. I find many people that make such a mistake are not programmers. The programmers I work with are also grammer kiddies.


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PostIcon Posted on: Jun. 11 2000,18:46 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
It's not the people that suck, it the language. Like jim said, if it sounds the same it should be spelt the same. The problem is the language and the only people that suck are the one's that made the language.

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Not only is it the people but the launguage as well.. life would be better if everything was in 1337 5p34k wouldn't it. That way only we would know what the hell anyone was talking about and stupid people would just die or sumthing! Did i just spell 1337 speak wrong? Oh well fuck it Stupid People still suck!

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Homonyms are one of the big stumbling blocks for people learning english as a second language. But I'm pretty sure that every language has homonyms of some sort (I mean, how much fun would life be without puns? Okay. So life would be a lot(correction c/o Chrissy) better...). Anyhow, the way I see it, different spellings for each homonym help us to understand written english better. Part of what allows us to understand spoken language so well is body language and intonation. Strip away these extralinguistic cues and all you've got left are context, punctuation and spelling. For example:


"You're where? Fuck you. I'm not going there."
"Your where? Fuck you. I'm not going there."

Note that the you're/your distinction changes the interpretation of the sentence. The first sentence might be your response to a friend asking for help after his car has broken down in New Jersey. The second sentence might be how you'd respond to a friend asking you to suck the snake venom out of some part of his body.

It's probably true that written languages based on phonetic alphabets are prone to such ambiguities. Still, I think a few tricky words are worth putting up with rather than having to learn a new ideogram for each and every word (i.e. chinese, japanese, etc.).

Anyhow, that's probably enough pretentiousness on my part for today. I'll shut up now.

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