Where is everybody?!? Help, help! To the barricades! The barbarians are winning! [Insert smiley face here.]
Although, at the very outset of this thread, we resolved we would not act as grammar police for SI, I sometimes have this overwhelming urge to SAY something (uncivil) to posters on other threads, especially when this one is dormant (as it is now). I need this thread to vent on!
"It's" for "its," "their" for "they're," "your" for "you're," and their ilk are proliferating daily. Some of the worst offenders are posters who, according to their profiles, are/were teachers! What are they teaching/what have they been teaching our children/grandchildren??!!??
This is more than just a spelling problem. Confusing "your" and "you're," for example, is a sign that the individual doing it cannot distinguish one part of speech from another.
What can we do about it?? (Nothing, of course. Just want to get a discussion going again!)
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