For the young R&Sers...?

Question

How much time do you spend on R&S compared with how much time you spend on your homework?

I've seen a lot of people misusing the following words:

your / you're

their / there / they're

lose / loose

its / it's

and more.

I'm hoping it's the young people and not those who are done with their schooling.

Answer 1

YA is my homework, let's all get over it.

Answer 2

mny ppl can't spell or type well &many r useless at gramar

Answer 3

I try to watch myself but I have misused their and there when I was answering in a hurry before.

Answer 4

Yeah, I don't understand it.  My first-grade teacher spent several days teaching us the difference between each of them, and we reviewed with my second-grade teacher as well.  I've never had trouble telling the difference since then.  Maybe some of these people need an elementary review?  Just a thought.

Answer 5

I'm getting ancient, but I'm horrified.

And it's not all students.

One at least asked a question: "Now I've finished collage..."

Writing well is a communication skill and a courtesy to the people you hope will be reading what you're composed.

If you start by showing you don't care about them, by assaulting their eyeballs, why should they respect the question or answer that came so infelicitously packaged?

No, you are not alone.

I'm not a grammar n**i, I am a grammar Rommel.  While I fight on the side of good grammar, if the leaders of the grammar forces become too tyrannical I may turn on them.

Answer 6

And I thought when school started back up the uneducated trolls would be gone.

Answer 7

Yo, I'm an English major!

I do mistype, but it pains my soul to read some messages.

I do ere on the side of caution when a person has a problem and I think that I can help.

If I discarded every message because of spelling errors, I would dump some of my own.

Answer 8

ive spent more hourshere than youre computer has been around their people who mostly come here for a few days but leave cause they know they will loose  its  shame cause we need more peeps.

Answer 9

I hate to tell you this but. . . . there are full grown adults spelling that way, too.

Answer 10

I am young, and I don't make those mistakes, or at least, not often. However, I am an English major.

Answer 11

Sadly, I don't think we can blame this all on the kids.

I work with people who are presumably educated adults.  Many of them have college degrees, even Master's degrees.

I have seen them send letters to the Mayor, or responses to formal public inquiries filled with the wrong version of your/you're, or my personal favourite, the lose/loose error.

It drives me completely bonkers.  I may well loose my mind.

Answer 12

I AGREE COMPLETELY.  At age 25 I thought that I would be more "in tune" to the way young people speak and type, but it quickly is becoming my biggest pet peeve.  Though, I have to remember that my mom even gets these words mixed up, and she's getting her first personal computer this weekend!  OH NO.  ha ha ha    

Blessed Be, Dear,  

BB )O( STB

Answer 13

Pedestal42 has coined a "new" label for those of us who cringe - in my opinion, it's much more accurate.

I put it down to laziness, similar to the way some folks speak. It's HORRIBLE! How on earth does one expect to be taken seriously if they don't spell or speak properly? It's particularly distressing when seen in our teachers and public officials, i.e. the word is "to" not "ta," although "ta" is perfectly acceptable when saying thanks to an Englishman.

It's like the old saying: "Don't dress for the job you have - dress for the job you want."

You are judged by your appearance, including speech, spelling and grammar. This may not be fair, but it's a fact.

And I strongly agree that those who completely bungle the language are not all youngsters or uneducated. Often, those to whom English is a second language write better than us natives.

I am afraid that those who use text speak (or whatever it's called) will lose that which they learned in school - if they were fortunate enough to learn it - and that will hamper their success the rest of their lives. (The last was a run-on sentence :)!)

I usually skip over those that I simply CAN'T understand, OR don't want to bother translating into English.

Answer 14

...I'm on your side.

Answer 15

I'm far from young but I share your concern.

Answer 16

hye mizz

i 4got 2 do mi homewurk 2dey cuz i spent 2 much tyme doin thiz instead

btw ur hot, lol

Answer 17

I've always wanted to correct them but I just shake my head, sink into a deep depression and weep for the future.

Answer 18

I try to spell correctly.

Answer 19

lol... define "young".  I'm in school, college to be exact.  

Edit: That's good news... seeing that I write as a hobby.  lol

Answer 20

Sadly, age has little or nothing to do with it, though I am disgusted at the way young people use txt mssg splng here, u no, cuz it sux?

Answer 21

How awfully nice of you to point things out especially since this is NOT grammar/spelling 101.    Many are not English natives, many are handicapped, many are elderly and have a hard time typing period.  Many just try to be the first one to answer questions and don't pay so much attention to detail.  What does it matter what someone does or doesn't anyway?  This has been asked numerous times and yet it keeps being asked?  Why? surely when you were writing other similar questions came up, why continue----you can spell but can you read???

but that is just it----You have no idea who is on here and surely there are people from many countries.   You are assuming that English/grammar is their native language....