The abbreviation of "you are" is "you're" not "your".

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The word "your" is a possessive pronoun - it indicates, well, possession. You can say to someone "Your muscles will develop if you do this...".

"You're" is an abbreviation. It stands in for "you are". E.g. "You won't get big if you're working out 7 days a week".

The two words are pronounced the same, but are different and a spelt differently.

Why does this bother me? It just does. It's just that on this site I nearly always see "your" when it should be "you're".

Anyway, according to the subtitle of this section this is the place for gripes and complaints, so here's mine.

The Watcher
 
Your absolutely right!
 
Congratulations, you have hereby passed the 3rd grade.

I am sure the moderators and admins on here could accommodate you and give you privileges to go through every single post on the forums and correct the "your -you're" mistakes....
 
OP: Please take an aspirin, when reading this post:

This thread was quite a "sight" or is it "site", when I saw it.

I do care how this particular post is looking, so I am a little "vein" I must say, so please do not pop a "vane", when reading it............



"All right", I "sea" your point.

"Your write", we must try to "right it write" on the forum when posting--and "except" that we are "all ways" human and make errors.

So, give the word; gather people around in a "heard", this must be "herd":

We must "bear" much burden as we try to become perfect--please have "patients"

It will fill the heart "whole" and make it "hole", and all things become "knew", but this you already "new".

This post is meant to be "discrete" and as much as I am trying to be "discreet".

One must have common sense when trying to be grammatical "profit" to handle the many mistakes in a forum that is not English class, and you will mentally "prophet".

This will open your: "sole"

From then on you will be set "strait"

He, he, buh, hah, ha......:)

English Language = messed up.


Best wishes

Chillen
 
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I'm with the OP. It's a real bug bear for me when people consistently make grammatical errors. Example: saying "loose" for "lose", "your" for "you're", etc. simply makes the person writing the post look stupid. I don't mean to come across as being academically superior. But if a person is incapable of expressing themselves effectively, the bottom line is they are functionally illiterate.

When I was in University, the first year students would give me their papers to mark up. Their grammar was so incredibly bad, I actually wondered how they made it through elementary school, let alone graduating from Grade 12. Their papers were littered with spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, and some were incapable of writing a complete sentence that actually made sense.

I would venture to guess that well over 50% of North Americans are functionally illiterate. That's not something to take a pill over. That's something that needs to be addressed in the schools.
 
That's something I have tried to express to my kids and step-kids. Even if you're the best at something, you can make yourself look ignorant if you can't write/spell on a resume/paper etc. It's the first impression that is so important. I don't think all the text messaging abbreviations are helping things out either...
 
IMO, some of the poor grammar can be attributed to typographical errors; some to laziness; some to English being a second language; and some to a lack of competency in proper grammar.

This is not an academic forum, but I typically give more credibility to the grammatically-correct posters.
 
thewatcher said:
The word "your" is a possessive pronoun - it indicates, well, possession. You can say to someone "Your muscles will develop if you do this...".

"You're" is an abbreviation. It stands in for "you are". E.g. "You won't get big if you're working out 7 days a week".

The two words are pronounced the same, but are different and a spelt differently.

Why does this bother me? It just does. It's just that on this site I nearly always see "your" when it should be "you're".

Anyway, according to the subtitle of this section this is the place for gripes and complaints, so here's mine.

The Watcher
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Stick to WoW, freak!
 
i_love_muscle said:
I don't mean to come across as being academically superior.
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Don't worry, you couldn't if you tried ;)

Seriously though, does anyone really care? I make a ton of spelling and grammatical errors on here but that’s usually down to the speed at which I type. This is a fitness site after all, not an English class

The only thing that bugs me a little is the over-colloquialisation (is that even a word) of posts. For example, ‘I like totally didn’t know how to tone up so I asked a friend and she was like, yeah, but you don’t even need to lose no weight so what you even goin’ there for right, and I was like, yeah, whatever’

The only thing I could suggest is having an age limit imposed on the internet and banning the under 20’s. Or at least until they grow up, get a job, cut their damn hair, take that piercing out and stop listening to rap music :D
 
Hahaha you old fart:cool2:
 
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