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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Remember, its all your fault.

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vegemite rocks!!!

Remember, its all your fault.

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 =)

[This message has been edited by gumbi (edited June 11, 2000).]

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.

Kisses,
Not the Nene

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Where is that tubby bitch??

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Where is that tubby bitch??

"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.

[This message has been edited by The_Hiro (edited June 12, 2000).]

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I will admit im a "your" for "you're" user but that is because im lazy and i can save myself 2 key strokes. Its bad form to use contractions anyway. "You are" is the only truly correct form.(just ask my 8th grade english bitc...er...teacher)

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Past and future pr0n star :)

Four is greater than two.
White is brighter than Black.

Then means "at that time":

Then all of detnet's files were deleted.

Look at the homonyms just in the above:
for, four
to, two, too
where, were (almost a homonym)

No wonder people have so much trouble learning english..

Another thing that pisses me off is ppl. throwing in apostrophes where they aren't needed. ex: Fred has three car's.
Right: That is Fred's car.

Whatever. I'm done now. I hope I didn't make any mistakes. Oh, and BTW it's spelt 'grammar', not 'grammer'.

[This message has been edited by Happyfish (edited June 12, 2000).]

An intellectual converstation of the future will go something like this:

(A report by doctor of biological sciences, Joe Smith)

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whazszup ive rsrchn plntlfe+bio adnfound dt crmsome b514x-22 is baitch cauz cncer n sht

l8r d00d.
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I can hardly wait. I will make millions by creating the first official dictionary:

(example)

- sht - (formerly used in place of "shit" or "shut" or "shoot" or "suck her tit" or "sup homy t" or "shoot his tanks" or "stupid homo teammate" or....

Heh.

-Firefox

Misuse of its / it's bothers me.

"its" is posessive : "The dog licked its balls."

"it's" is a contraction of "it is" : "It's hotter than hell today today."

long live the day when computers are bright enough to give the user a good shock if they use the wrong form of a word...

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vegemite rocks!!!

Remember, its all your fault.

You hath not a write when your motives
-write should be right

If the [clan] dost nay agree to the wills set for the ways I shall walk then bare forth your clans and step forth
-huh? and no, it won't really make sense even if I pasted it in its entirety
-nay should be not. I'm under the impression that nay=no and it cannot be stretched to nay=not (correct me if I am wrong)

As we rise to a new light within [diety]'s Arms we must have. Accept the Wills and Visions of [diety].... [s/he] beckons that never Shall a [clan] Harm another. Nor will a We take part in acts of Feeding...with a Great on we shall savor our own kill...and play with it you may... And last but not least we shall all Take great Pride [diety]'s
light and Honor [his/her] with our own Honor and integrity!
-whats with the bad capitalizations? it just doesn't make sense all I did was insert [diety] to replace the diety's name as well as [s/he/his/her] used

It is possible to view one's notes as they write it as well as before they send it. Is it too much to ask that they actually edit it before sending it off to see if it makes any sense? *sigh*

Well! That's a load off my chest

"Thou hast not a right when thy motives..." or "You have not a right when your motives..." depending on whether you are talking to one person or several people.

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[This message has been edited by Hellraiser (edited June 15, 2000).]

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I may be paranoid, but not an Andriod.

I personally think that homonyms rather help learning English as a second language - I never had problems with "they're" - "their", but I think if the spelling was the same I'd get pretty mixed up reading texts. As to contracted forms like "you're"... in exams, mistakes are counted like this:

number of mistakes / number of words = mistake quotient

Now, "you're" is one word. "You are" are two words... it would be plain stupidity to write the contracted form because it lowers your word number and it is likely to get less points because of "bad style".

And that fake San Fransisco serial killer cow or whatever dude really needs to get back on his valium...

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Originally posted by Spydir:
I remember when I used to idle on Undernet all the time (IRC...) all these girls from the Philipines would keep messaging me... they'd ask me the usual "asl?" and crap... but they'd always either get words backwards or spell words most people who speak english as their native tounge would say "why the fuck can't you spell that right?" too... I realized after all that, that English is a fucked up language. Seriously. Every other language has basicly the same "rules" and stuff you'd learn in your Language Arts (english) classes, just they use different words to represent different things. English, on the other hand, has no rules that make any sense. And don't get on my about how that's the American way or something (people do that when I rant about this... I dunno why), but English isn't American. It's from England. It's a Germanic language, meaning it's loosely based on German. So... yeah... English is fucked up.

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You never learned french, don't you? The rules for conjuging past participle are complex, with tons of exceptions (can somebody who speak french can tell me what's the rule for conjuging a past participle of a pronominal verb with the 'have'/'avoir' auxilliary??), hundreds of homophones (mais/mes/m'est,l'heure/leur/leurs, tous/tout/touts, etc)...

French is (IMHO) a beautiful language, but oh god, so complex to write!

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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.).

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Chinese yes, Japanese no. There's a set rule of pronounciations for each syllable (there's 47 of em, not hard to remember at all). That way, you can't fuck up if you see a word written, it's always going to be pronounced the way you think it would. Personally, I think it's a lot easier to learn than French ...or English for that matter. Glad I was born speaking English.

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Originally posted by Nene:
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.

Kisses,
Not the Nene

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Yeah, I seen that.

FUCKING VERB TENSE PEOPLE.

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FUHAOHB2IPDEFCIPUDQNFQFYLOEGOGB

Hiragana and katakana each have 46 basic charaters. Kanji is based on the Chinese characters, and there are thousands of them...

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Originally posted by blanalex:

can somebody who speak french can tell me what's the rule for conjuging a past participle of a pronominal verb with the 'have'/'avoir' auxilliary??

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blanalex, give me an example of a pronominal verb and I'll conjugate it. I just can't think of a verb right now.4