This is priceless.
You’re is a contraction of YOU ARE. It’s that simple.
Thursday, January 8th, 2009 1:35 pm • English, humor
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January 8th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
I’m continually surprised/concerned about how little people understand the english language. if it’s your main language & you speak it ever day why would you not go to the trouble of learning it correctly?!
Possessive apostrophes are one thing, but how can you not understand that its used to represent an omission of a character? (Do ommisive (I totally just made that word up!) apostrophes have a name like possessive apostrophes?). Oh god now I’ve used parentheses inside of parentheses & made up a word! They drive me to this!
January 8th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Oh, the irony! Rick, i’m sorry, but you just committed the very sin you were denouncing within the same sentence.
You mean to say: “…how can you not understand that it’s used to represent…”
January 8th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
God damn it! I’m claiming typo!!! (You buying that?)
January 8th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Dude….wtf…I’m glad Stef beat me to that response…
January 9th, 2009 at 10:48 am
oh wow.
Your: possessive
You’re: contraction of you are
The misuse of either of these is one of my pet peeves.