Three pages in and nobody is admitting to being confused by your and you're, their and there??? Seems like many posters are. Unless they're not realizing it.
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I went through an engineering undergrad degree and always get anxious doing simple math in front of people. Very simple math on the whiteboard for example when figuring out resources based on effort always always screws with my brain.
Three pages in and nobody is admitting to being confused by your and you're, their and there??? Seems like many posters are. Unless they're not realizing it.
Their is a difference between confusing and not caring.
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Three pages in and nobody is admitting to being confused by your and you're, their and there??? Seems like many posters are. Unless they're not realizing it.
It's horrendous on this board. This gripe might belong in the teachers thread.
Three pages in and nobody is admitting to being confused by your and you're, their and there??? Seems like many posters are. Unless they're not realizing it.
If it's homophones you despise, page 2 has a post for your eyes...
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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Homonyms baffle me sometimes. I know all the correct usage for there/their/they're who's/whose it's/its etc and drives me crazy to see people messing them up. I can't believe how many times I'll re-read something I've written and see that the auto-pilot version of me wrote the incorrect one. Sometime my possessed auto-pilot brain even makes up weird phonetic spellings or drops in some completely phonetically similar word that I can't believe came from me!
I pretty much blank at any of the addresses downtown (i.e. 1st st and 4th ave) when I'm having a conversation with someone.
I usually just nod, then take 5 minutes afterwards mentally tracing my way from City Hall in front of Mcleod Tr trying to figure out where the place actually is.
Three pages in and nobody is admitting to being confused by your and you're, their and there??? Seems like many posters are. Unless they're not realizing it.
Less about confusion and more about people typing fast.
Physical orienteering.. I'm the worst at it. Walking or driving, but probably even worse on foot. I kinda have ADD and just never pay attention to my surroundings at the beginning to use it as landmarks, even when I remind myself beforehand to do so. Put me in a 50/50 situation where turning one way is correct and the other is wrong, I'll choose the wrong way 9 times out of 10. It's a gift.
