# Your all driving me insane with your inability to use "you're" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 22, 2006, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702 "2006-02-22T23:36:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/21 "2006-02-23T04:58:54Z")
(Back to the OP…sorry) I always thought it was one of the most telling reflections on my high school’s english department that 95% of my senior year yearbook signings contained “Your a \ guy…” (or was it just that I knew so many english failures ?) For kicks, you should dig up your senior year yearbook, and see how your classmates fared. ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/22 "2006-02-23T05:08:52Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > Come on. That’s rediculous. > > Please don’t hit me. Wow, I was going to post this but somebody actually beat me to it. Good to see I’m not the only one getting fed up with “rediculous.” ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/23 "2006-02-23T05:13:59Z")
I totally agree that misusing ‘your’ makes someone look like a friggin idiot. It’s such a basic thing. Didn’t we all learn it in second grade? It drives me nuts. It is probably the one mistake I rarely, if ever, make. My lack of apostrophes comes from sheer laziness, though. I try to use them on here, however, for fear of ridicule. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/24 "2006-02-23T13:02:45Z")
In IMs my Mom uses “their” for they’re. “Their calling for snow tonight.” It does make me nuts, but I know I have my own set of little typos so I try to ignore it. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/25 "2006-02-23T13:18:31Z")
Hey guys? It’s Gretzky. With a ‘z’. There is no ‘s’ in Gretzky. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/26 "2006-02-23T13:40:13Z")
Their are more spelling and grammer mistakes in this thread then all the adams in the universe. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/27 "2006-02-23T14:17:24Z")
And just to help things a little more: They’re - Contraction of ‘they are,’ used in similar fashion as it’s and you’re. Their - Possesive, used like tis and your. There - Indicaiing a location. See how I use them in my fine axample: “They’re making us dinner at their house over there.” See how simple it is? ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/28 "2006-02-23T14:19:11Z")
> [@pool](#): > > Their are more spelling and grammer mistakes in this thread then all the adams in the universe. No their aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/29 "2006-02-23T14:29:35Z")
> [@cormac262](#): > > For kicks, you should dig up your senior year yearbook, and see how your classmates fared. My best friend in high school used to send me notes full of improperly used "your"s and "to"s and “its” and "their"s. One day (when I was annoyed with her for being an idiot about a high-school breakup and needed a way to take it out) I corrected everything with a red pen and gave it back to her with a note on the bottom that said “This is why you’re failing English, and YOUR boyfriend is dumping you because YOU’RE insane.” She wasn’t pleased, but it made _me_ feel a lot better. I try not to make those mistakes, because I actually _do_ know the difference, but sometimes the heat of the message board moment gets to me. I cringe and hide my face every time I neglect to preview and discover a missing apostophe. I admit my occasional failure, and rest assured when you read something I’ve mangled, I’m hanging my head in shame in front of my own computer. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/30 "2006-02-23T14:31:31Z")
I mever nake misteaks. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/31 "2006-02-23T14:49:46Z")
Your alot of amatuers. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/32 "2006-02-23T14:59:16Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Ok, who’s got today at 7:24 PM EDT? Noone does. Daylight Saving’s Time ended over three months ago. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/33 "2006-02-23T15:01:02Z")
The one that drives me nuts is “looser” for “loser”. I had never seen that particular error until messages boards came into my life. I see it everywhere. Stop it! I tend to type quickly so I mess up my apostrophes, like this: dont’. Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/34 "2006-02-23T15:07:14Z")
I find myself equally bugged by the use of the word **then** instead of **than**. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/35 "2006-02-23T15:27:01Z")
There trying. Really they are. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/36 "2006-02-23T15:41:07Z")
I think of all the common mistakes (‘you’re’ being close to the top of my list), the one that bugs me the most is ‘alot’. I don’t know how many times I’ve corrected people on ‘alot.’ I’ve done it, well, a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/37 "2006-02-23T15:41:33Z")
I read the Salinger short story “Franny” a few weeks ago, and (as I remember it) in Franny’s letter to her boyfriend, in which she keeps commenting that her writing is full of mistakes, the only actual mistake she makes is _your_ for _you’re_. And she is clearly supposed to be a whip-smart but very confused young woman. Interesting, eh? OK, I guess not. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/38 "2006-02-23T15:43:21Z")
> [@Gangster Octopus](#): > > I agree, those people are complete loosers. Poor usage of “You’re” is tied to Irritable Bowel Syndrome? Eye theenk ur teesin’ me. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/39 "2006-02-23T15:45:13Z")
> [@Jman](#): > > I think of all the common mistakes (‘you’re’ being close to the top of my list), the one that bugs me the most is ‘alot’. I don’t know how many times I’ve corrected people on ‘alot.’ I’ve done it, well, a lot. As bad in my book is “alright” to the point that it is almost preferred in some writings. Maybe my teachers would have been better off if they had said, “This is not incorrect, it is just unpopular.” That way I wouldn’t get so upset when things go differently from how I was taught. My teachers labored under the assumption that there were correct ways to do things. Don’t get me going on “different than” and “to boldly go” or “all’s I know.” ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702/40 "2006-02-23T16:51:23Z")
“A lot” is the way to spell it, if you please. If “allot” is what you mean, please spell it right too. Don’t get me started on sentences that look dumb, stupid, and wander off out of that list with some other clause instead of a third adjective, dammit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-all-driving-me-insane-with-your-inability-to-use-youre/345702.md?page=3)