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To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (7)	9/11/1998 4:45:00 PM
From: jhild	Respond to of 34

If someone was reading a post to you with that version of "you're" in the wrong context, you would never know there was a mistake. Other common misuses I see are: their - there (and sometimes - they're) you're - your (as you pointed out) no - know (which I am surprised about) alot - a lot its - it's (that one always requires thinking about for me) There are others that I cannot recall right now. But the striking thing to me about it is that they are homonyms which I believe is a consequence of their being written versions of our conversational dialogs. I once thought that it was a few people using voice transcription software and maybe the software was using the wrong words, but these very same people made so many spelling mistakes, that they couldn't have been using such programs as they generally work off of dictionaries to enter the words. I freely admit to making many of these mistakes myself, many more than get posted, as I think I catch the majority of them when I proof my posts for spelling and grammar. But the homonym link I think is the key to why you observe this mistake so often. (At least that's my theory anyway.)