Your / you're

[NoLactose]

If you want to say YOU ARE then it's YOU'RE. The apostrophe is taking the place of the A.

If you mean that a thing belongs to someone then it's YOUR / YOURS.

YOUR'E not going to believe how easy it is to wrap YOUR head around this very simple thing which makes people judge you when you get it wrong.

YOU'RE welcome!

Unfortunately, OP, you have typed the apostrophe in the wrong place in your third paragraph, which rather detracts from your message!

Apart from letting off steam, do you think post is going to make any difference?

I've found myself making this mistake occasionally even though my spelling is good and I am perfectly aware of the correct usage. It's just on something informal like this forum, it's going to happen, and I've learnt to be more relaxed about the odd slip-up.

If I was doing it in reports at work or emails in a professional context, then I'd be more concerned.

YOUR'E not going to believe how easy it is to wrap YOUR head around this very simple thing which makes people judge you when you get it wrong.

I’m judging you right now.

Seriously. What do you think this post is going to achieve? It might be simple for you but that doesn’t mean it is for everyone. Do you think people are deliberately making that mistake to piss you off?

@NoLactose

If you want to say YOU ARE then it's YOU'RE. The apostrophe is taking the place of the A.

If you mean that a thing belongs to someone then it's YOUR / YOURS.

YOUR'E not going to believe how easy it is to wrap YOUR head around this very simple thing which makes people judge you when you get it wrong.

YOU'RE welcome!

And I cannot stand incorrect apostrophe placement I suggest you climb off that high horse of yours op and have another look at what you've posted....

Make sure YOU'RE doing it right yourself first 🤣🤣🤣🙄🙄😳

Unfortunate mistake aside, I am with you OP.

That said, I do realise it’s petty, language evolves and autocorrect does horrible things!

YOUR'E

The apostrophe goes in place of the missing letter. It's easy once you know. You're welcome

Arsewipe.

It irks me too but you must be a MN newbie if you haven’t realised that if you start a grammar police thread then your OP WILL include a mistake, guaranteed!

MN needs an edit button as it's easy to make mistakes when typing on a device.

Auto-predict/correct spells words like Sundays as Sunday's which irritates me.

And I think OP's mistake was deliberate

What the hell does it matter!

Sadly, OP, the sort of people who genuinely don’t know the difference and might actually like to know, are probably not the ones who’ll be reading this thread.

I’m sure you could have threads every week about its/it’s, there/their/they’re, who’s/whose, etc. (I wouldn’t bother with discreet/discrete, evidently a lost cause) but I doubt they’d make any difference.

Your/You’re doesn’t bother me that much, I can understand what they mean.
Alot is annoying, but again, I can understand.

Noone (No One) however irrationally bugs me.

Aside from the mistake I'm with you.
So annoying when people get this wrong!!!

I hate people making blatant mistakes like there/their/they're. It isn't hard but some poeople don't feel it matters.
I only comment on it if they are being a prick and putting others down.
For example a guy on facebook commented on a friends post correcting a spelling mistake. He wrote something like "your not very smart but we love you anyway".
I commented "you're. If you are going to correct someone elses spelling you should get your own post 100% correct don't you think???"

No response but hopefully he won't be such a prick next time!

Do you feel all superior now, OP?

Get back in YOUR box. You can't feel good about criticising people for their misspellings, then fuck up YOURSELF! Kind of takes the steam out of YOUR argument.

I hate people making blatant mistakes like there/their/they're. It isn't hard but some poeople don't feel it matters.

I’d be surprised if most people know.

Whilst I accept that you may find this really annoying @NoLactose and @GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER however many dyslexic people struggle with homophones.
I have spent decades struggling with them I've tried everything but still can't get there and their correct all the others I can now do including they're but there and their just won't stick.
So the next time you feel the need to "teach" people or talk about "the sort of people who need to be told " that we might not be able to retain the information no matter how many times people tell us and that you're being really offensive

I hate people making blatant mistakes like there/their/they're. It isn't hard but some poeople don't feel it matters

My mum does this. Do you really think it is because she doesn’t think it matters? Or maybe it was something to do with dropping out of school as a teen when her mum died to look after her siblings? She doesn’t know what she doesn’t know.

Ha, @Ohdoleavemealone, I only ever corrected someone once - on a largely male forum with a lot of smart-arses - after he’d corrected someone else - and made a basic mistake in his own post.
Talk about pots and kettles.

The worst I ever saw, though, was on a specialist members’ forum where a lot of us had met up at some point.
One woman who evidently always fancied herself as intellectually superior, pointed out to someone else on the general forum (she could have sent a PM) that she’d used a Latin phrase incorrectly.

I’d never taken to that woman, but that really put the lid on it.

@Babdoc

Unfortunately, OP, you have typed the apostrophe in the wrong place in your third paragraph, which rather detracts from your message!

Muphry's Law at its finest

Kerb and curb annoys me.
The Google ad is wrong.

Don’t t get me started on there/their/they’re!

🤣🤣🤣 🤣🤣🤣 good spot people!
Someone's got to keep you on your toes 🤷‍♀️