Your / you're - a public service announcement

[Azimuth]

YOUR - a possessive adjective

YOU'RE - a contraction of "you are"

Example: You're confusing your adjectives and contractions.

Thanks.

[Crzwaco]

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

[larch]

THIS IS A PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT YO! ENTER THE NINJA!

[Azimuth]

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

Heh, that's awesome. A friend and I were bitching about people misspelling "definitely" yesterday, actually. I think it's because people don't see words as constructs - in the case of "definitely", for example, it's the prefix de- plus the stem -finite- plus the (adverbial) suffix -ly. De+finite+ly. Yet some people just don't seem to see this at all. As for "alot". >_> That just doesn't even make sense.

[Sockmonkey]

Thanks for you're thread, I think this cleared up any confusion.

[Crzwaco]

Heh, that's awesome. A friend and I were bitching about people misspelling "definitely" yesterday, actually. I think it's because people don't see words as constructs - in the case of "definitely", for example, it's the prefix de- plus the stem -finite- plus the (adverbial) suffix -ly. De+finite+ly. Yet some people just don't seem to see this at all. As for "alot". >_> That just doesn't even make sense.

Yeah I constantly all of those word I get wrong some way or another. So that always helps me in getting some of the words right.

Like a lot use to write it always as alot

[Tsar]

Thanks azi I tend to misspell things. It is always nice to learn something that has been forgotten.

[Murph]

Heh, that's awesome. A friend and I were bitching about people misspelling "definitely" yesterday, actually. I think it's because people don't see words as constructs - in the case of "definitely", for example, it's the prefix de- plus the stem -finite- plus the (adverbial) suffix -ly. De+finite+ly. Yet some people just don't seem to see this at all. As for "alot". >_> That just doesn't even make sense.

I will be honest here, I spelled it definately for about 10 years.
Spell check makes you lazy I guess

[GReeN_ORB]

Now that's a worthwhile public service announcement!

[Raven Gold]

Or theres some of who just don't give a shit. It's not English class.