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

[Cien]

Your seriously overreacting here, its not like it matters what your opinion of others are. Leave them alone and just get on with you're day.

[Theodarzna]

Why is a simple answer of 'shorthand' not as viable as assuming people are dumb?

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Added the bold to make it funnier...

If people spelled things more phonetically I.E. the way it sounds intuitively, then there would be no problems. People would do what they do in normal speech and just use their brain power to understand these fascinating things like context and actually pay attention to what is being communicated rather than depend on the time for proof reading and or typing time of the person communicating.

I know it is shocking but considering nearly everyone KNOWS what the person said even when they use the technically incorrect version of the same consonant sound, it just seems silly and kind of pointless.

In terms of communicative effectiveness its like bragging you use a deliberately kind of useless rule taught in school when you and I know perfectly well what was said.

[Slant]

Why is a simple answer of 'shorthand' not as viable as assuming people are dumb?

Cos shorthand usually conveys the same meaning as the original. They're, their and there have absolutely different meanings and are not interchangeable at all.

"You = U" I can excuse as shorthand; "their = there" is not shorthand, it's just plain wrong. Same with "your" and "you're". Totally different meanings. And my personal favourite today "could've" and "could of". The second one doesn't even make remote sense grammatically.

Saying "it's shorter" really has only the purpose to hide their embarassment. It's never about effort. They didn't even think about effort while making the decision. They just write it as they think is correct and it shows the lack of education they had. That's it. End of discussion.

[Ornerybear]

Simple, because people are lazy and stupid.

[Gothicshark]

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.

Lighten up. English spelling, and grammar rules are only a couple of hundred years old at most. English is great because of it's ability to adapt and evolve.

[TheLimonTree]

Your right.

Pisses me off too.

What has my right side done to you?

[enragedgorilla]

Humans+ Any number of "reasons" to make the mistake = This annoyance.

I catch myself sometimes making the "your" mistake...some days I do not catch it as my brain and fingers are not in sync and ...woops.

Humans..being human.
Shocking and horrid I know

If this is your biggest annoyance in life so far...I applaud you sir or ma'am and eagerly await your how to book.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Auto correct, not proof reading, trying to be fluid in text and missing a detail, I tend to forgive a mistake or two.

[Sargerasraider]

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.

Probably because their not paying attention to there grammar.

[Brewcity]

The extra second it takes to add the 2 other parts to you're is too much man,

[Dreyen]

bad grammar exists everywhere... There is also people who don't speak english as their native language. The mount of "your"s instead of "You're" I've seen in my english classes was astouding (I'm french canadian)

[Wavesqt]

This may only apply to certain places in the world. But what about the words 'arse' and 'ass'. 'Arse' generally means your bum and 'Ass' is a Donkey, or is it just the way it is used in context?

[DarkAmbient]

My own grammar isn't perfect by any means, but when a native English speaker consistently writes your instead of you're, or loose instead of lose, I write them off as a bit thick and tend not to pay much attention to them.

[Deleted]

Because you are on an international forum.
Not everyone is english.

Your mind is now blown

[Freds1234]

Because they're homophones.

[Nnyco]

their r more important things to worry about, no?

[procne]

Because you are on an international forum.
Not everyone is english.

Your mind is now blown

My experience has shown that it's mostly "english" people who do those mistakes. Other peeps, who learned english by starting with grammar and spelling, do such mistakes rarely.

In fact, because this is international forum, "english" people SHOULD try harder to write properly. To make it easier for international audience to understand. And to not teach them incorrect spelling. I remember I kept using "should of" and "must of" (instead of should have and must have) like a retard because I didn't know better and I saw many people writing like that.

[SeanTheOriginal]

Because there fucking stupid.

[Aqueous]

Because there fucking stupid.

Wow. I sincerely hope this was an ironic post

[Queen of Hamsters]

Eh, I understand English well enough to grasp what people really mean without a problem. It doesn't bother me at all.