Your, You're, There, Their, They're

[EDcase]

I don't want to start a discussion

I'm just putting this here for anyone interested in seeing the difference so their messages are clearer to read.

 

Your - Belongs to you

Example: Your gear

 

You're - Short for 'You are'

Example: You're right

 

There - Referring to a place

Example: Lets go over there

 

Their - Possession

Example: Don't touch their RIF

 

They're - Short for 'They are'

Example: They're going to be surrounded

 

 

Hope this helps clear things up a bit. 

[Tommikka]

1 hour ago, EDcase said:

I don't want to start a discussion

I'm just putting this here for anyone interested in seeing the difference so their messages are clearer to read.

 

Your - Belongs to you

Example: Your gear

 

You're - Short for 'You are'

Example: You're right

 

There - Referring to a place

Example: Lets go over there

 

Their - Possession

Example: Don't touch their RIF

 

They're - Short for 'They are'

Example: They're going to be surrounded

 

 

Hope this helps clear things up a bit. 

Are you sure that you're not worried that  they’re touching your new gear with their sticky fingers over there?

[Impulse]

Didn't even include its vs it's smh

[Rogerborg]

Well, that's yore opinion.

[Skara]

As a non native english speaker (more like I can read and write okay, but when I open my mouth I sound like a demented australopithecus), it has always puzzled me how easily y'all can fuck those up....

[Tommikka]

3 minutes ago, Skara said:

As a non native english speaker (more like I can read and write okay, but when I open my mouth I sound like a demented australopithecus), it has always puzzled me how easily y'all can fuck those up....

Simple - you just need to not care

[EvilMonkee]

It is entirely the fault of the mobile phone generation and text speak becoming the predominant form of communication.  Plus, noone writes anything physically anymore....

[EDcase]

14 hours ago, Impulse said:

Didn't even include its vs it's smh

Go ahead ?

3 hours ago, Tommikka said:

Simple - you just need to not care

That's what leads to failure.

27 minutes ago, EvilMonkee said:

It is entirely the fault of the mobile phone generation and text speak becoming the predominant form of communication.  Plus, noone writes anything physically anymore....

Partially in the early days, but autocorrect is built into most phones now so it should actually be easier

[Cannonfodder]

Unfortunately auto correct only deals with spelling mistakes and won't detect the wrong use of your/you're etc.

 

While we're at it I'd like to add sight and site

[DanBow]

What pisses me off more then general grammatical errors is when people use shortned text speak from the days before full keyboards! They must be fecking demented if they think u an aceptable spelling of you?!?!?!?!? 

[EDcase]

2 hours ago, Cannonfodder said:

While we're at it I'd like to add sight and site

Yeah add it

 

 

46 minutes ago, DanBow said:

What pisses me off more then general grammatical errors is when people use shortned text speak from the days before full keyboards! They must be fecking demented if they think u an aceptable spelling of you?!?!?!?!? 

In the early days it was necessary.  Remember when we only had numbers on the keyboard so we had to press several times to get different letters ?

Edited April 8 by EDcase

[Tommikka]

2 hours ago, DanBow said:

What pisses me off more then general grammatical errors is when people use shortned text speak from the days before full keyboards! They must be fecking demented if they think u an aceptable spelling of you?!?!?!?!? 

My old mother was taught text speak by my niece, and now has a smart phone and multiple ipads

You don’t want to try and read an 80 year olds text speak that is sent via email, text message, facebook messenger and WhatsApp - all in one fractured conversation across numerous apps

1 hour ago, EDcase said:

Yeah add it

 

 

In the early days it was necessary.  Remember when we only had numbers on the keyboard so we had to press several times to get different letters ?

I’ll see your Nokia 3210 numeric keypad and raise you the Nokia 7280 ‘lipstick’ wheel pad

 

 

 

 

I was the master of quick spin typing, aided by standard messages (yes, no, on my way etc) but also skilled in ‘spin & click’ across the alphabet to make real English words

 

However my mates did take great joy in seeing how long it would take a back & forth text conversion to change to me phoning them back

Edited April 8 by Tommikka

[EDcase]

Wow, I never saw one of those. Takes minimalism to the extreme ?

[Tommikka]

7 minutes ago, EDcase said:

Wow, I never saw one of those. Takes minimalism to the extreme ?

You might not be old

Or you weren’t cool enough / as much as a mug 

(They didn’t last long, just a tiny blip in the ‘make things smaller’ era just before going to the ‘make things bigger’ era)

 

 

….. and the customer base was probably meant to be to fit in girly tiny ‘night out’ bags as opposed to overgrown boys pretending they had a spy gadget phone. 

[DanBow]

47 minutes ago, Tommikka said:

….. and the customer base was probably meant to be to fit in girly tiny ‘night out’ bags as opposed to overgrown boys pretending they had a spy gadget phone.

 

I saw a thing a while ago that attributed phones screens getter bigger to when we realised that we could watch porn on them. ?

[Tommikka]

11 minutes ago, DanBow said:

 

I saw a thing a while ago that attributed phones screens getter bigger to when we realised that we could watch porn on them. ?

Porn always leads the way 

 

[Cannonfodder]

13 hours ago, EDcase said:

Wow, I never saw one of those. Takes minimalism to the extreme ?

Let me show you the Siemens SL55

12 hours ago, DanBow said:

 

I saw a thing a while ago that attributed phones screens getter bigger to when we realised that we could watch porn on them. ?

That wouldn't surprise me. Nobody wants to be trying to work out what they're watching while wrestling with the one eyed trouser snake

 

[Tackle]

On 08/04/2025 at 08:55, Skara said:

 but when I open my mouth I sound like a demented australopithecus

Mate, shouldn't have told us that, now when I read your posts, in my head I can hear captain bertorelli's voice in 'allo 'allo

[Cannonfodder]

3 hours ago, Tackle said:

Mate, shouldn't have told us that, now when I read your posts, in my head I can hear captain bertorelli's voice in 'allo 'allo

What a mistake-a to make-a

[Lozart]

On 08/04/2025 at 16:07, EDcase said:

In the early days it was necessary.  Remember when we only had numbers on the keyboard so we had to press several times to get different letters ?

 

In the before times it was because there was a character limit on text messages.

[Adolf Hamster]

17 minutes ago, Lozart said:

 

In the before times it was because there was a character limit on text messages.

 

Then it evolved into using the mini keypad on an xbox controller to insult random strangers in cod lobbies, and as we all know letting random strangers know what you think of they're mothers is a time-critical task.

[Lozart]

1 hour ago, Adolf Hamster said:

 

Then it evolved into using the mini keypad on an xbox controller to insult random strangers in cod lobbies, and as we all know letting random strangers know what you think of they're mothers is a time-critical task.

 

*their

 

 

[Adolf Hamster]

2 hours ago, Lozart said:

*their

 

If it helps, it hurt to do that even as a bit

[Egon_247]

As i work at a fruit packing place, there are a ton of languages that these guys speak, my go to phrase is "i only speak bad english!"