Why do people time and time again keep typing "your" in place of "you're"?

[Hraklea]

Because they sound the same and we think in sounds, not written. At least, I have a "voice" in my head rather than a "hand" writting my thoughts.

[Noradin]

People who learn spoken English first often mistype words that sound the similar but are spelled (slightly) differently.
Autocorrect makes it worse.

[Dirdie]

some people are older, haven't been to school in over 20 years, are use to talking to people in person and often don't give a shit if they mixed up you're and your or they're, there, their.

[ophion1990]

Misusage of their theyre and effect and affect also piss me off

The irony is killing me.

[Snowfunk]

It's easier to type. I say we get rid of apostrophes altogether, put the burden on the reader. Yeah I went there.

Because language evolves over time and changes.

And things with ' are outdated and also anoying to type.

Your right. But on the internetz grammar is irrelephant.

Youre post makes me think that your insecure about you're dick size.

I also think, your blowing this problem out of proportions.

[Noradin]

I also think, your blowing this problem out of proportions.

Was that directed at the last of those quotes?

[Rafoel]

1) There is a lot of retards.
2) Retards can't comprehend the difference between "your" and "you're" etc.

= people keep using wrong words

[Polar1]

You can be a revolutionary and have your entire career ruined as a result. I'm also so sick of seeing comments from your typical ghetto dweller with English as their main language in full broken English. I'm in no way a grammar Nazi. This is absolute basic English.

If the forums are representative of the general population, chances are that most people here have 12 years of education and that's it for them. They therefore cannot or do not like to read well written articles or books. Confusing acronyms for words that sound similar is going to be common given those standards. I ignore it in any gaming forum, I also speak informally when out of office. But at work where there is no room for miscommunication, there should be zero tolerance.

[Forgettable]

Because they're pretty dumb, that's why. Move along.

[Deleted]

1) There are a lot of retards.

Seriously?

[Yamuri]

At least you can blame idiocy or ignorance for spelling mistakes. For a "Grammar Nazi" most of the time they're absolutely intrusive and insulting. You can say you aren't, but in the end you are correcting someone's grammar mistakes without any real benefit at all. It's all negative feedback anyways.

[Shadowferal]

*shrugs*

Text talk generation.
I've seen too many unable to write a sentence legibly via pen and paper. But damn, they can sure tweet!

[the game]

I agree. It's annoying when people can't get grammar and spelling right.

[Deleted]

Ur right to question this.

[caervek]

You can be a revolutionary and have your entire career ruined as a result. I'm also so sick of seeing comments from your typical ghetto dweller with English as their main language in full broken English. I'm in no way a grammar Nazi. This is absolute basic English.

Your write, there reel dum, its wired sum guize cant write American gould.

[lokithor]

Because language evolves over time and changes.

And things with ' are outdated and also anoying to type.

Sounds like pure laziness to me.

[Revi]

1) There is a lot of retards.
2) Retards can't comprehend the difference between "your" and "you're" etc.

= people keep using wrong words

Your retarded and you're shits retarded.

[lokithor]

Your write, there reel dum, its wired sum guize cant write American gould.

Lol how hard was that to type?

[McCrazy]

My native language is german. There are also many words that are commonly 'mispelled'. I think, many people are just to lazy to write right. Usually it's not faster. Or they use 'denglish', because it's cooler. But if everybody understands it better, is another question.

A friend of mine always tiped really fast, but with many typing and write errors. Sometimes it was not easy to read and to understand. I told her once: "To read your writing is like listening to a drunk's slurred speach'. After that, she made an effort to write 'soberly'.

[caervek]

Lol how hard was that to type?

Actually it was so difficult it was almost fun.