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My pet peeve: Lazy kids and parents who coddle them.
The use of the word "your" for "you are" or the contraction "you're."
"Your" is possessive like in "your house." "You're" is a contraction for "you are happy" (or whatever).
Too true.
One version, attributed to Socrates:
I think it is because it would be normal that the possessive form of personal pronouns would have an apostrophe (just like the noun it replaces). Why not?Many people who do not make the above mistakes still confuse its and it's, and I find this really perplexing. Many are good writers otherwise, such as some bloggers that I like to read. Why?
...people see it all time, it is less likely to look out of place.
I'm looking forward to the self driving cars for other people!
I learned to read and write English long before I had anybody to converse with. I think that must be the reason grammatical errors and mispellings, particularly my own when I later spot them, bother the hell out of me.
To a native speaker, he may think that if two words are pronounced the same, their different spellings are just superfluous.
Try this test. It's another simple one....
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It looks so wrong to me when they write "the dog wags it's tail".
In my mind, I see "the dog wags it is tail" because that's how I was taught, and it irks me the same as fingernails scratching on a blackboard.
I never saw that until just a few years ago. At first I thought it perhaps a regional usage, but it seems to have become prevalent around the country.
Grade school students should pass this with a 100% score.Try this test. It's another simple one....
Words that are spelled differently but sound the same | Learn English
A subtle joke...An observation along the same lines, I've seen cloths used for the term clothes many, many times over the past few years. Makes me crasy.
Almost as bad as using the term tread when referencing a thread on the forum.
And than there is the is the incorrect use of the term then...
Grade school students should pass this with a 100% score.
A subtle joke...
I have caught myself mixing up then and than occasionally when making a post, and have to hurry up to correct it before too many readers see it. Of course I know the difference, but I fear old age is catching up with me. And yes, I have written tread instead of thread at least once.
Recently, I wrote Ebinizer Scrooge instead of Ebenezer, and when I later saw that it did not look right it was too late to correct. Arghh!
Alzheimer cannot be too far ahead.
Be glad that you don't live in Libya or anywhere in that region; as long as the name is phonetically correct, it is acceptable. Qadafi, Gaddafi, Qaddafi to name a few.
It's just the principle of the thing to know how to spell principal.
Or as many elementary school teachers would say:
"Basically I like the school, it's just the principal of the thing."
I think the spellings are standardized in Arabic, it's just the translation (really, the transcription) of proper nouns into English where a lot of latitude is permitted.Be glad that you don't live in Libya or anywhere in that region; as long as the name is phonetically correct, it is acceptable. Qadafi, Gaddafi, Qaddafi to name a few.
The above is a phonetic translation, same as Peking which is now Beijing.