For all you dense people out there that can't grasp the difference between you're/your and there/their/they're, this little lesson is for you. Take a moment, read it, absorb it, utilize it. You won't look like a complete dumbass, and it will be at least a little easier to take you seriously.

Your
Possessive of 'you'

You're
Contraction of 'you are'

EXAMPLE:
I saw your cat yesterday.
I know you're going to learn a lot by reading this thread.

There
A location

Their
Possessive of 'them'

They're
Contraction of 'they are'

EXAMPLE
I need to go there tomorrow to get a shirt.
I usually like their music, but I don't like their last album.
They're oblivious to the changing weather conditions.

5/28/2009 12:39:53 PM

your sure making a terrible thread their son.

5/28/2009 12:40:27 PM

THE PEOPLE WHO NEED TO READ IT WILL NOT MY SON.

5/28/2009 12:41:13 PM

your a dick

5/28/2009 12:41:18 PM

^^ You're probably right SAAB.

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 12:42 PM. Reason : ^s]

5/28/2009 12:41:37 PM

haha i came in here with the sole purpose of making sure the first post disobeyed whatever rule he tried to teach us

good job, thumper

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 12:42 PM. Reason : fuck yo carets]

5/28/2009 12:41:55 PM

i knew i would get a bunch of that. it's just a pet peeve and it annoys the hell out of me. it's so simple!

5/28/2009 12:43:11 PM

actually i'm with ya, it irks the hell outta me. the whole "to/too" thing does as well.

5/28/2009 12:44:19 PM

I'm so thankful you made this thread

Preach it.

5/28/2009 12:44:27 PM

^^ signed.

Quote :

"I'm so thankful you made this thread Preach it."

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 12:45 PM. Reason : k]

5/28/2009 12:45:05 PM

You should go back to school to be a english teacher!

5/28/2009 12:45:25 PM

an english teacher

5/28/2009 12:45:38 PM

sale =/= sail =/= sell

5/28/2009 12:46:52 PM

Can you add in the proper way to spell "separate," please... It bothers me when I see "seperate."

5/28/2009 12:46:54 PM

^^^^My mom is one. They don't get paid enough for what they do. (all teachers, not just English teachers)

She told me if I wanted to go to school to be a teacher, she wouldn't help me pay for college.
(I didn't want to anyway.)

^^^ ahahahaha.

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 12:47 PM. Reason : GRAMMAR!!]

5/28/2009 12:47:04 PM

^^^ I HAVE ITEMS FOR SELL SON.

5/28/2009 12:47:34 PM

stupid fucking thread

Let's mock the employed masses while we sit around in our drawers on a Thursday afternoon playing FIFA '98 !

5/28/2009 12:48:25 PM

I support this thread

and will add that it is not "definately"

it's "definitely"

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 12:52 PM. Reason : I have no idea how people see the "a" as correct... it's "definite" + "ly"]

5/28/2009 12:49:58 PM

Shut yore mouth!

5/28/2009 12:51:08 PM

i'ma just use "ur" in every situation from now on

5/28/2009 12:52:05 PM

^^^^ If I made a thread to mock the employed masses, it would certainly not be about grammar, but rather wasting employer's resources by posting on TWW at work (since they would see it) while well qualified workers are struggling to make ends meet. But A+ on the troll attempt.

^ Please, dear God, no.

5/28/2009 12:54:01 PM

or "rediculous".. wtf is that.

5/28/2009 12:54:04 PM

d7, it is better than nothing!

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 12:55 PM. Reason : congradulations!]

5/28/2009 12:54:16 PM

By, Buy, Bye....

GET IT RIGHT SON.

^ You sunk my battleship

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 12:56 PM. Reason : .]

5/28/2009 12:56:02 PM

^^

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 12:56 PM. Reason : k]

5/28/2009 12:56:15 PM

hahaha...I remember Joie and d7f complaining about apresh and rents. It still makes me giggle. I will add ur to that list. I def don't use apresh and rents but I will have to say I use ur from time to time. I still love those guys.

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 12:57 PM. Reason : ugh!!! DEAR GOD, NOT CONGRADULATIONS!! PLEASE, NO!! ]

5/28/2009 12:56:47 PM

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 1:06 PM. Reason : damn, i dont know how to get the add to my topics picture up]

5/28/2009 1:05:15 PM

like this

(check out Edit Post)

5/28/2009 1:07:18 PM

5/28/2009 2:19:28 PM

i just sat here through that whole .gif and loved it

5/28/2009 2:22:14 PM

There are a metric shit ton of people on this website that also desperately need to learn the difference between yeah, yea, and yay.

Or I guess continue to look retarded when they don't know the difference.

5/28/2009 3:19:50 PM

cry us some more angst filled tears for the grammar / spelling inaccuracies

i do occasionally fuck things up, then again none of this shit is for a grade/pay/publication and you all take this stuff far too seriously

5/28/2009 3:22:20 PM

message_topic.aspx?topic=530484

5/28/2009 4:13:46 PM

I don't understand the attempt to rationalize not knowing basic grammar with the "it's not for a grade" argument. You learned it in elementary school. It's not difficult. There is no reason you should not have retained the information. I don't have to do math for a grade anymore ... does that mean I don't have to know how to do multiplication? I learned that in elementary school too ...

5/28/2009 4:17:03 PM

kind of like in the spelling bee thread when someone said they wouldnt use spelling for the rest of their lives.

btw, punctuation (e.g. apostrophes), i dont use it here

how do you feel about that?

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 4:18 PM. Reason : asdf]

5/28/2009 4:18:32 PM

Quote :

"I don't understand the attempt to rationalize not knowing basic grammar with the "it's not for a grade" argument. You learned it in elementary school. It's not difficult. There is no reason you should not have retained the information. I don't have to do math for a grade anymore ... does that mean I don't have to know how to do multiplication? I learned that in elementary school too ..."

it's more of a matter of not giving a fuck. even better giving a fuck that it does in fact bother people just makes it that much more entertaining.

it's also about laziness and the amount of effort and brain power i deem to devote towards spelling and grammar on a online forum message board where I rarely if ever proof read.

basically it's not worth the effort to me (usually while doing actual work that i actually get money for) to make sure all my little i's and t's are dotted and crossed just so a few self-righteous nosy people can feel better about reading it.

plus the number of errors i have per post is rather fucking low.

additionally using math correctly usually is in reference to actual money so there is real motivation for not getting it wrong.

5/28/2009 4:31:43 PM

i fail you

5/28/2009 4:41:04 PM

I don't particularly care if someone else neglects proper grammar/spelling/whatever in informal situations on the internet (which would not count for, say, work e-mails). I just don't think it speaks well of you. Typos are typos, and they will happen, but there's no reason anyone older than 10 shouldn't know better, and it seems that a lot of people honestly don't.

5/28/2009 4:47:58 PM

Quote :

"I don't understand the attempt to rationalize not knowing basic grammar with the "it's not for a grade" argument. You learned it in elementary school. It's not difficult. There is no reason you should not have retained the information. I don't have to do math for a grade anymore ... does that mean I don't have to know how to do multiplication? I learned that in elementary school too ..."

Except it's not.
I didn't have any english grammar instruction until junior year of high school. It was by my German teacher - so we'd have a proper context in which to understand German grammar.

I did alright learning the rules by being a voracious reader, but that's not a reasonable expectation to apply to everyone.

Quote :

"basically it's not worth the effort to me (usually while doing actual work that i actually get money for) to make sure all my little i's and t's are dotted and crossed just so a few self-righteous nosy people can feel better about reading it. "

Quote :

"it's also about laziness and the amount of effort and brain power i deem to devote towards spelling and grammar on a online forum message board where I rarely if ever proof read. "

It takes almost zero effort to get shit right, if you've truly learned it. You're actually not someone who would come to mind when poor grammar is discussed, so you're kinda proving my point

It easily becomes second nature to get shit right. That makes written communication in an academic or professional situation so much easier. I do feel you though - sometimes I just don't feel like capitalizing my Is (I do it so as not to get out of the habit of always having it right - it saves me time on proofing when every second counts)
--
I usually don't care if people fuck up their grammar. Mostly because just like cheating on tests, the only person they are shortchanging is themselves. If you don't care that you come across as an idiot, why should I? You're just making life after (and sometimes during) easier to everyone who can bother to half-ass their written communication. I do tend to look down somewhat on folks who have the capacity to get a handle on grammar, but choose not to. They're pretty much asking for it, by telling to world "I know I have this shortcoming that's easy to fix, but I don't care." That's not exactly a mature mentality

But I do care when it crosses into hypocrisy: when someone who can't get your/you're and they're/there/their straight sees fit to lay into someone else for laziness, intelligence, or level of "care" (in relation to the internet), then their poor grammar becomes a relevant issue. Stones in glass houses and such.

5/28/2009 4:50:05 PM

fuck...

they better not found out i LOLed em all
so much is at stake.

5/28/2009 4:52:19 PM

Quote :

"Except it's not. "

haha, i went to public school in southern mississippi
and still got rigid grammar instruction in elementary school

5/28/2009 5:40:24 PM

now, look here youngins, we's got to git you sum lurnins

5/28/2009 5:41:19 PM

they all sound the same to me.

5/28/2009 5:41:38 PM

What's the rule about puntuation inside quotes and parenthesis?

5/28/2009 7:36:01 PM

There isn't just one rule. There are like 20 to cover that.

5/28/2009 7:36:56 PM

I will forever spell "ridiculous" as rediculous. The red line under it just mocks me.

5/28/2009 8:03:55 PM

good thread Cody

5/28/2009 8:08:52 PM

Quote :

"it's more of a matter of not giving a fuck. even better giving a fuck that it does in fact bother people just makes it that much more entertaining. it's also about laziness and the amount of effort and brain power i deem to devote towards spelling and grammar on a online forum message board where I rarely if ever proof read. basically it's not worth the effort to me (usually while doing actual work that i actually get money for) to make sure all my little i's and t's are dotted and crossed just so a few self-righteous nosy people can feel better about reading it. plus the number of errors i have per post is rather fucking low. additionally using math correctly usually is in reference to actual money so there is real motivation for not getting it wrong."

really?

words have meaning. learn them.

Quote :

"i'ma just use "ur" in every situation from now on"

i lol'ed

[Edited on May 29, 2009 at 1:14 AM. Reason : dgfdgf]

5/29/2009 1:13:35 AM

OMG

5/29/2009 1:14:55 AM

/won

5/29/2009 1:15:33 AM