Your/You're

Scioch · 13-10-2012 09:29PM #1

Lets just get rid of you're. "Your not going to eat all that". Doesn't make a difference, sentence still makes sense.

So if the thing makes sense, we all understand what is meant and most people use "your" anyway. Why do we need "you're" ? Why not attribute both meanings to "your" and be done with it ?

As far as I can see the only purpose of having the two of em is so you can tell someone they are wrong if they dont use em correctly. Thats no reason to have a word.

Sinfonia · 13-10-2012 09:30PM

Sounds doubleplusgood.

juan.kerr · 13-10-2012 09:30PM

Let's not.

longshanks · 13-10-2012 09:30PM

Fuck off

banned

PizzamanIRL · 13-10-2012 09:31PM

Exactly, too many people get their knickers in a knot when someone uses it wrong.

Scioch · 13-10-2012 09:31PM

longshanks wrote: »

Fuck off

I'll av you longshanks !!

juan.kerr · 13-10-2012 09:31PM

longshanks wrote: »

Fuck off

Will do.

frag420 · 13-10-2012 09:33PM

You're wasting your time op!!

Let that be a lesson to you!!

wendell borton · 13-10-2012 09:33PM

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

Orwell, 1984.

PizzamanIRL · 13-10-2012 09:33PM

longshanks wrote: »

Fuck off

Big man.

Scioch · 13-10-2012 09:36PM

frag420 wrote: »

You're wasting your time op!!

Let that be a lesson to you!!

Your wasting your time. We need to make progress as a society and language is an important part of that. Our minds developed through communication and language and to develop our minds we need to add more layers to language.

We need to obtain a higher level of abstraction and where better to start than with more multiple meanings for words.

NoQuarter · 13-10-2012 09:36PM

Your off you're fcuking head!!

DEFTLEFTHAND · 13-10-2012 09:36PM

You're (You are) and Your are different though. I agree that it causes unnecessary confusion and many people misuse each word, but that's the English language it's complicated. We should all be grateful for being native speakers.

Hal Decks · 13-10-2012 09:36PM

Scioch wrote: »

Lets just get rid of you're. "Your not going to eat all that". Doesn't make a difference, sentence still makes sense.
.....,,,.

That's the thing, it does not make sense. They are two completely different words/expressions with completely different meanings.

Funny how it's always the uneducated who say it doesn't matter!!!!!

fupduck · 13-10-2012 09:39PM

Grammar, the difference between knowing your ****, and knowing you're ****

Scioch · 13-10-2012 09:40PM

Hal Decks wrote: »

That's the thing, it does not make sense. They are two completely different words/expressions with completely different meanings.

Funny how it's always the uneducated who say it doesn't matter!!!!!

But it does make sense. You understand what that sentence meant and exactly what I was saying.

It doesnt actually matter from a communication point of view. Only a syntactical point of view.

Mint Sauce · 13-10-2012 09:40PM

Scioch wrote: »

Lets just get rid of you're. "Your not going to eat all that". Doesn't make a difference, sentence still makes sense.

So if the thing makes sense, we all understand what is meant and most people use "your" anyway. Why do we need "you're" ? Why not attribute both meanings to "your" and be done with it ?

As far as I can see the only purpose of having the two of em is so you can tell someone they are wrong if they dont use em correctly. Thats no reason to have a word.

Wise Old Elf · 13-10-2012 09:41PM

OR, we could all learn to use it properly. It's not that complicated.

Third option, nobody is allowed use contractions ever again, punishable by death

Scioch · 13-10-2012 09:42PM

irish-stew wrote: »

<clears throat>

Grammar aint the boss of me !

shedweller · 13-10-2012 09:42PM

Feck that. It's the "willy wonkr and the chocolate factory" ****e i want addressed.

vanillr ice cream :mad:

Chuck Stone · 13-10-2012 09:43PM

Your mad if you think their going to change they're ways.

usernamegoes · 13-10-2012 09:45PM

if ucan under stand it wats de harm

Right?

Wrong.

Scioch · 13-10-2012 09:45PM

Disco Stuart wrote: »

OR, we could all learn to use it properly. It's not that complicated.

Third option, nobody is allowed use contractions ever again, punishable by death

You think people should all learn to pronounce it properly too ? Are accents wrong now ?

Why do you want to control and restrict everything ? What cant you just let it be free to grow and change ?

shedweller · 13-10-2012 09:45PM

grammr overload!!

Ghost Buster · 13-10-2012 09:46PM

Scioch wrote: »

Lets just get rid of you're. "Your not going to eat all that". Doesn't make a difference, sentence still makes sense.

So if the thing makes sense, we all understand what is meant and most people use "your" anyway. Why do we need "you're" ? Why not attribute both meanings to "your" and be done with it ?

As far as I can see the only purpose of having the two of em is so you can tell someone they are wrong if they dont use em correctly. Thats no reason to have a word.

Helping your uncle, Jack, off a horse
Helping your uncle jack off his horse

This stuff is important so rather than attempt to change a language you could just stay awake in school

BrokenArrows · 13-10-2012 09:48PM

Or people could simply learn the meanings.

shedweller · 13-10-2012 09:48PM

Thats the thing. It's a slippery slope towards neanderthal speak.

Shryke · 13-10-2012 09:49PM

Anyone that can't understand and appreciate the difference between these words has a learning disability.

yore · 13-10-2012 09:49PM

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Helping your uncle, Jack, off a horse
Helping your uncle jack off his horse

This stuff is important so rather than attempt to change a language you could just stay awake in school

It gets especially confusing when your trying to do both at once. Ah, uncle jack and his horse. I remember them well.

Aoifey! · 13-10-2012 09:50PM

Scioch wrote: »

Grammar aint the boss of me !

isn't*

Hal Decks · 13-10-2012 09:50PM

Scioch wrote: »

.....
But it does make sense. You understand what that sentence meant and exactly what I was saying.

......,,.

You have this ar5e ways. It is only understandable because the claim being made is wrong.
When I see such grammar and syntax I don't bother reading any further. I have better things to do than to be deciphering what some illiterate is typing.

It's not difficult to differentiate between your and you're. If you find it is, then you have a problem.

Your/You're

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