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> The standard for correct rules: when two people communicate they emerge at the end with a shared mental model of the subject. By this standard, using "their"
by umanwizard 8y ago
> The standard for correct rules: when two people communicate they emerge at the end with a shared mental model of the subject.
By this standard, using "their", "there", and "they're" or "your" and "you're" completely randomly is fine -- it's almost impossible for it to cause misunderstanding.
- bluGill 8y agoIn fact this is false. Even though in verbal speech they are the same, in written they are different. I have known people who didn't understand something written because the wrong word was written, once someone read it out loud they understood it. Of course there is no reason the above people couldn't get used to one spelling if they changed the rules. We just need to have universal agreement to change the rules. (I have no clue how you would do that)