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

*ac* · Apr 1, 2009

Yes, yes, and yes! I am a nut for proper speaking and writing, though. One of my biggest pet peeves is the use of double negatives : "I ain't got no money." AHHHH!!! It makes me want to pull my hair out! :chuckle

This is a close second for me. The worst part is that people speak in the double negative.

*ac* · Apr 1, 2009

Thanks to everyone who replied. I've never had so many people agree with me on an issue before! It's somehow vey gratifying.

sharpeimom · Apr 1, 2009

I just asked my husband who is an English professor and has a sweatshirt that says, "Yes, I AM The Grammar Police!" and he shuddered:eek: :no: and said, "yes." I was an editor before I became a nurse and say

"AAAARRRUUUGGGHHHH!!!!":banghead::banghead:

We both say: :trout: :nono: :smackingf:grn::omy:

sharpeimom:paw::paw:

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Apr 1, 2009

coz, prolly, ur (not in texting), are probably the ones that annoy me the most.

sharpeimom · Apr 1, 2009

How about there, their and they're? Does much of anyone under the age of 25, know they're is even an option? Or what about to, two and too? Despite the fact that may, whom and shall are no longer to be used, I'm a rebel and continue to use them.

sharpeimom:paw::paw:

Jamesdotter · Apr 1, 2009

It's it's, not its if you mean it is. If you don't it's its. Then, too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours and likewise yours and theirs.

I discovered I'd posted this once before, in 2004. I do agree with all of your posts. Its/it's is probably the one that bugs me the most. After that it's using "they" when one means he or she. I realize that that has become normal practice ( being politically correct somehow, I think) but it really bugs me.

*ac* · Apr 1, 2009

coz, prolly, ur (not in texting), are probably the ones that annoy me the most.

These don't bother me so much, because I feel like people are doing it on purpose and I like to assume that they know the correct usages, and are just choosing to use this new shorthand. But honestly, if "you're" is just too much to type, than I say go ahead an use "ur". "Your" is just out-and-out wrong when you mean "you're".

PS: the PMS should be over pretty soon.

talaxandra · Apr 1, 2009

I can't stand "site" for "sight" and "cited" when people mean "sighted" - I'm sure they didn't refer to a wound when dressing it.

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Apr 1, 2009

These don't bother me so much, because I feel like people are doing it on purpose and I like to assume that they know the correct usages, and are just choosing to use this new shorthand. But honestly, if "you're" is just too much to type, than I say go ahead an use "ur". "Your" is just out-and-out wrong when you mean "you're".
PS: the PMS should be over pretty soon.

Well I don't have the parts to have PMS anymore , but the fact they ARE doing it on purpose is "prolly" what bugs me more. It's not a mistake, it's not that they aren't grasping the proper word, or having any sort of trouble with it, they are butchering the English language deliberately in a place where their words aren't limited to a few characters. I know I butcher the English language as well, but it's not on purpose and it's not from a lack of trying to understand.

Not_A_Hat_Person, RN · Apr 1, 2009

Yes! I also hate random apostrophes, like "Closed Sunday's" or "Shirt's and shoe's required."

rngolfer53 · Apr 1, 2009

I remember when schools taught the difference between contractions and pronouns.

Second or third grade was the time frame, I believe.

rngolfer53 · Apr 1, 2009

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.

Be careful, please. You can injure your rotator cuff with vigorous patting of your own back.