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No true scotsman would confuse “your” and “you’re”.
by Hendrikto 5y ago
No true scotsman would confuse “your” and “you’re”.
- toyg 5y agoUh, in fact, British and American natives are the worst, when it comes to homophonic errors. Your/you're, its/it's, their/there/they're - unless they're well educated (and often even if they are), chances are that the natives will get them wrong whereas foreigners won't. That's because they think of the language in terms of sounds first (as they learnt it before they could read), whereas foreigners are forced to think about it in logical terms first.
- Hendrikto 5y agoI know, it was a joke: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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- Luc 5y agoI'm not a grammarian but "your" sure seems less wrong than "you're" in that sentence. "I was going to sympathise with you are having to put up with [stuff]" - doesn't work.