Does "your" instead of "you're" drive anyone else nuts?

[*ac*]

...or do I just have PMS?

[*ac*]

yes.... but i will admit that i still sometimes struggle with affects/effects

So have I, but that's way more complicated!

[Lefty Lou]

That's just wrong, an english teacher?.. it seems pretty simple to me, but I guess not to some people.

[VictoriaM]

Your/You're bugs me, but not nearly as much as lose and loose. I'm not sure what it is about that, but it drives me nuts!

[JennyMac]

"For example, it drives me nuts when a person says, "Just between you and I..."

This drives me crazy, too!

[VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN]

Yes.

And I'm not physically capable of having pms :)

Me neither......got done with that whole mess several years ago........thank goodness!

However, I've been called the "Spelling Nazi" since I was a child, mainly because I am totally anal-retentive about correct spelling and punctuation. In the old days when we had typewriters, I was known to rip up an entire page of work and start over again if I found even a minor typo that I couldn't easily conceal with correction tape and a carefully measured typeover. And now that I do everything on a computer keyboard, I often don't notice a typo until I've completed the sentence, and then rather than go back and correct just the mistake, I delete everything I typed after it and start over again. I don't know why.

However, I try not to be judgmental toward people who aren't as uptight as I am. I used to work with a nurse who could barely spell 'cat'; her charting was atrocious, and I thought that if I had to spend my career following her and reading her descriptions of a patient's "seazur", I'd lose my mind. But once I got to know her, I learned that if I ever needed a nurse, I'd have wanted her taking care of me, because she knew her stuff and she was a wonderfully compassionate human being in the bargain. So what if she spelled everything phonetically and didn't know an apostrophe from a comma? She measured up where it really counted.........out there on the floor.

[Manderlay, MSN, APRN]

Yes, yes, yes.....................

[tntrn, ASN, RN]

Yes, yes, yes.....................

Yes, it does, but not as much as anything spelled in "texting" spelling. THAT really bugs me. I have to wonder if people who use texting spelling on a forum such as this are even capable of proper spelling when it comes to, say, a job application.

The use of "myself" and all the other "selfs" kind of bothers me too.

[HippyGreenPeaceChick]

Actually, rather than someones grammatical errors, I am more appalled by other ongoing events of more serious nature. But I won't misdirect this thread.

[Pierrette]

It bugs me "alot".

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

I silently cringe every time I see it done incorrectly.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

yes!!!!

but "loose" and "lose" drive me even nuttier. and then there's "should of" and "would of" instead of "should've" or "would have". and don't even get me started on "where's he at?" or "sean, he did it this way" instead of "where is he?" or "sean did it this way."

[SDChargersGirl#31]

And now that I do everything on a computer keyboard, I often don't notice a typo until I've completed the sentence, and then rather than go back and correct just the mistake, I delete everything I typed after it and start over again. I don't know why.

I do that too! :chuckle I just can't help myself.

When texting, I can't bring myself to use "ur". I won't even go without using proper punctuation in contractions.

For me, the reason I abhor the misused/misspelled word is because it leads me to believe they are saying something else until I get to the end of the sentence and realized they meant to use the other spelling of the word. Time wasted = annoyed!

Spellings that really chap my butt that I am seeing more often are: lite (light), brite (bright), site (sight), etc.

I believe texting will eventually change the way english words are spelled in the dictionary. It's the evolution of language.