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They're, Their, and There (pg. 6)
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| UWM |
| quote: | Originally posted by RickyM
Look at me, I'm so superior. |
Can you get off my ing nuts already? |
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| medinaM5 |
| yeah there definately better then us |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
those are both better than the dead fish infested lake michigan.
Erie #1 |
so true. erie's awful polluted too, tho. |
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| Protege |
| omg my gf does this all the time. is it that hard to type the 'e' on 'youre'? |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by Protege
omg my gf does this all the time. is it that hard to type the 'e' on 'youre'? |
it is. and the apostrophe? man, the amount of time and energy it takes to add that in. ugh. makes me tired just thinking about it |
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| La5eR |
| Declaritive, Ownership, Place |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
so true. erie's awful polluted too, tho. |
yea but erie pollution means warm water :) |
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| astroboy |
| quote: | Originally posted by inconspicuous
...using "they" as a singular pronoun, as in, "whenever somebody says this, I know they're illiterate." |
I sometimes do this to stay gender neutral - it's quicker than saying "that person" |
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| Silky Johnson |
| When we write papers at school, we're not allowed to use they're or their....we HAVE to use "his or hers", "he or she", etc. Soooo lame. We're also not allowed to use conjunctions. Makes for REALLY boring papers. |
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| inconspicuous |
| quote: | Originally posted by astroboy
I sometimes do this to stay gender neutral - it's quicker than saying "that person" |
yeah, except it's illiterate. "they" is always plural. You cannot refer to one person as "they." |
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| Cloudburst |
| I've never had a problem with this. Maybe because it's not my first language and we have to learn grammar in a non-natural way. Also since it's not my first language I'm very concerned to get everything right, from grammar, spelling, capital letters, etc. "Lazy typing" doesn't come as easy. |
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| Gauss |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cloudburst
I've never had a problem with this. Maybe because it's not my first language and we have to learn grammar in a non-natural way. Also since it's not my first language I'm very concerned to get everything right, from grammar, spelling, capital letters, etc. "Lazy typing" doesn't come as easy. |
That about sums it up. Also, I find it ridiculous when I go to forums where English is spoken (which is foreign to me) and find out that I know English better than people who have it as their mother tongue... It's kinda sad, actually. |
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