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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (186491)4/2/2012 1:21:16 PM
From: epicure  Respond to of 541798
 
It's a "safe" way to play the rebel. I mean most people of moderate intelligence can get the your/you are thing down fairly consistently- we all mess up once in a while. If they choose not to, it's a finger to the "man"- the man being the international cabal of grammar/spelling police. For people who routinely choose to spell things wrong, it's a badge of stupid intransigence. I know they think it says "I'm a rebel" but what it really says is "I'm a doofus who thinks spelling things wrong is rebellious."

It's a very middle school kind of thing to do.



To: Steve Lokness who wrote (186491)4/2/2012 8:46:58 PM
From: Cogito  Respond to of 541798
 
>>I've noticed that! There is one guy I've corrected many times and he never once has used "you're" where it is called for. He obviously doesn't care or try. May suggest some commonality with the way some people think - or don't think? <<

Such people often talk about the failures of the school system, while unintentionally supporting their own point, at least in regard to themselves.


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