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

Wise Woman RN · Mar 31, 2009

Definitely- Definately really gets me... also the lose-loose thing...

Smitty08 · Mar 31, 2009

Bugs me too! Thanks to everyone for upholding the English language...here is a fun one: the difference between these 3 words, commonly misused or misspelled: imminent, immanent, eminent

Aneroo, LPN · Mar 31, 2009

Yes, it does, and I'm not even good at grammar! Here at the high school one of the foreign language teachers was almost in tears because of a paper a student wrote. It was horrible. She said "How am I supposed to teach her french when she doesn't even understand her own language?"

I also get irked by its/it's. Simple ownership.

We have a sign provided by the state about teen pregnancy. I get mad when I see it, because it says "Every 28 minutes, AN NC teen becomes pregnant."

OMG, the AN before NC drives me insane. As far as my simple mind knows, that is not proper. I've even seen it on a billboard.

Aneroo, LPN · Mar 31, 2009

Oh, and go eat some chocolate and have a good cry anyways. :lol2:

BosNsgStudent · Mar 31, 2009

Yes!!! (Isn't this 3rd grade stuff?...)

simpliicomplex · Mar 31, 2009

Yes, It drives me a little crazy.

SecondGenRN · Mar 31, 2009

It bugs me "alot".

lol! and yes your vs you're drives me crazy!

catshowlady · Mar 31, 2009

Yep, drives me nuts. It's a secret obsession, for the most part. Most other people don't seem to notice, and think I'm weird or obsessive for noticing. *shrug*

Virgo_RN, BSN, RN · Mar 31, 2009

Yup. To/too/two, than/then, lose/loose....they all bug me.

truern · Mar 31, 2009

No, of course not!!

What does drive me crazy/crazier are run-on sentences with a lack of punctuation. There are some posters here that make my head spin while trying to read what they've written.

HonestRN · Mar 31, 2009

lol! and yes your vs you're drives me crazy!

I was wondering if anyone else caught that "alot". LOL!!

Add: their, they're, there, misuse of I and me and all the others previously mentioned.

Coffee Nurse, BSN, RN · Mar 31, 2009

No, of course not!!
What does drive me crazy/crazier are run-on sentences with a lack of punctuation. There are some posters here that make my head spin while trying to read what they've written.

Agreed! I'm not sure which I hate more -- this, or the posts that seem to have replaced every bit of punctuation with an ellipsis. At first...you think it's just to manufacture tension...or to represent a thoughtful pause...but after a while...you begin to realize...that they just...don't know...any other way...to punctuate a sentence. ARGH.

Also, we have mostly computerized charting at my hospital, and some nurses insist on writing their notes all in capital letters. It's hard enough to read this when it's just normal English, but when you toss in all the acronyms and abbreviations that are used in charting, it becomes pretty much impossible.