Your an idiot. Here’s a grammar lesson.
For fuck’s sakes… what’s with people making it through elementary school without knowing the most basic grammar and spelling? I don’t claim to be an English professor, but I do have a basic grasp of the English language. My personal pet peeves in this regard involve those who cannot discern the difference between “your” and “you’re”, and to a lesser extent, those who cannot tell the difference between “they’re”, “there”, and “their”.
So, here’s a brief lesson on using the words “your” and “you’re” correctly. It’s very easy, and it only requires a split second of thought before typing or writing.
First lesson: Your vs. You’re
Your – belongs to you
You’re – a contraction of the words “you are”
Here are some examples of the proper use of the word “your”:
“Is that your beer?”
“Let’s go to your house.”
“Your girlfriend is hot.”
In each of the above sentences, the word “your” is used to show possession of something. If you own something, it is yours.
Now here are a few examples of the phrase “you’re”:
“You’re going to regret this.”
“Do you know if you’re going to the party this weekend?”
“You’re a bitch.”
In each of the above examples, the phrase “you’re” is basically an abbreviation for the two words “you are”.
Next time you are writing one of the above words, take a moment to determine what it is that you are trying to say. (What you’re trying to say… see how easy it is?) If necessary, say it out loud to help you figure out which word is the correct one.
If someone were to send me a message saying “Your an idiot”, I would be perplexed, thinking to myself, “My an idiot”?? If someone typed “Your car is on fire”, I would immediately understand that MY car is on fire.
Strangely, I occasionally see people completely screw things up and try writing something like this:
“Your going to have to make you’re own dinner”
Usually people will only mess up one or the other, not both. It is my suspicion that many people have no idea that the word “you’re” even exists. If for one reason or another you are still having difficulty understanding this extremely simple concept, then I’ll ask you to use the two separate words “you” and “are”, rather than trying to figure out if “your” or “you’re” is correct.
This concludes my mini English lesson for the day. In the future, I will tackle the issue of “they’re” vs. “there” vs. “their”. Now I can’t wait to get comments from people who will intentionally mix up these words to annoy me further. Trust me, if you are thinking of doing that, you aren’t original, and you aren’t funny. Good luck, idiots.
Chris Erwin says:
Brilliant! It’s about time someone put an end to the nonesense. You’re my new grammer hero (replacing Chuck Norris) and you should be commended for your excellent work that you’ve done here.
p.s.
Rob Maeder = Mad at World
November 16th, 2005 at 12:55 pm
Chris Erwin says:
HAHA I spelled GRAMMAR wrong… isn’t that ironic
November 16th, 2005 at 1:03 pm
mike says:
Hey Chris, You Spelt ‘nonsense’ wrong too. You spelt it ‘None’ ‘Sense’.
Hopefully in the future you will type slower. So I can understand what you’re writing.
Thank you and Happy Fuck.
- Mike
November 16th, 2005 at 3:38 pm
Spencer "Beyone" McCormack says:
Hey Mike, you capitalized “You” and “Spelt” needlessly, I realize “Happy Fuck” is an event like Christmas Day so it’s alright there.
What triggered this grammatical tyrade? Rob Maeder does equal mad at world.
November 16th, 2005 at 4:49 pm
Colleen says:
Hey, whats this “Happy Fuck” all about?? If its an event like Christmas Day, then i want in…….
November 18th, 2005 at 11:48 am
Pumpking Eater says:
Yeah totally feel “your” pain. Although, now that I’m typing, I’ve the sudden urge to check over my blogs. Were you writing about me? I know I’m not as smart as you, but you don’t have to rub it in and publish to the world about my inadequacies as a speller.
“Oh by the way part 1″: I’m going to print your blog out and give it to Ian. He’s one of those people who cant tell the difference between the two words. Also if you have any future plans for the words they’re, their, and there, give me a heads up so I can print those out for him too.
“Oh by the way part 2″: I read your comment on my blog. You haven’t met her yet man, so don’t be so negative.
November 20th, 2005 at 10:07 pm
Dick Biggins says:
Sadly, it occurs all-too-frequently that I stumble across bloggers who write something that at first seems interesting, then fizzles into an innane, crybaby list of the “shit that pisses me off.” It is not very often that I leave a post, however, so be impressed that your nasal whining is so powerfully annoying that it comes through in your writing. I can actually see the cynnicism resulting from a lifetime of wedgies emanating off the screen…like little waves of unpopularity, and lonely nights filled with masturbation…and Dungeons and Dragons. But, at least you learned grammer, because I know that during those late nights while your mom slept (with me), and you eagerly caressed a bottle of lotion, watched the loading screen from Everquest, and engaged in gay little semantical arguments with other toons (I was fucking your mom at this time, mind you) you’d have been damned bored if math was your forte.
September 18th, 2006 at 6:02 pm
Dick Biggins says:
So their. Hahahaha. I’m sorry, but your just so easy to make fun of> I can’t believe I just wasted five minutes of my life writing that. I’m just as gay as you’re. LOL. Fuck, I kill me.
September 18th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
Dick Biggins says:
Oh, and to make sense of that first comment, your must assume that I only post replies on blogs where a person is extremely whiney. I don’t know how I missed including the second premise of the statement, but I did. Should have read, blah blah blah, but I thought that your blog was sufficiently whiney to warrant a post by yours truly, so feel honored fuck-boy.. or something like that. In any case, I just lost another five minutes of my life, but don’t let me leave without expounding once again upon this theme of mine. Learn to write something that will benefit the world, such as what I have just done. What you did was write about how you get sooo mad that other people are so much dumber than you, when in reality other people probably just don’t give a fuck if they forgot an apostrophe or two. We aren’t writing our dissertations in a text-message, and I could care less that I probably misspelled a few words. You do, which makes you gay. That’s all I’m saying, man. You’re gay.
September 18th, 2006 at 6:14 pm
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