Why don't most people know the difference between "you're" and "your"?

Most people do know the difference. They just end up picking the shorter one when typing fast.

"When are you two loosers coming over here?"

Sometimes I just cannot contain myself.

I can't help it, but when someone has words spelled wrong, I take their opinion a little less seriously and they become somewhat discredited in my mind.

I know that that is a flawed mentality (not to mention arrogant), because there are brilliant people whose internet writings are riddled with spelling mistakes, but it's just how my mind works. I can often overcome this bias after getting through a few sentences, if the writing is well articulated or conveyed properly, in spite of its grammatical errors.

That being said, I'll look back on things I write online and catch these spelling mistakes. "Doh! You dummy!", I say to myself. "Better edit my post to change that one 'there' to 'their'."

My favorites are:
Won't spelled want
Does spelled dose

Want you tell me, what dose this mean?

Ackkk!!! I read it as written and think wth...

It's even more shocking when an English person makes grammatical and/or spelling mistakes (excluding typos)

ur anus shit shits, like ur mouth, no diff, just stating!

I'm pretty certain that most people make typos at least once in their life. What matters is if you are able to identify the error.

You should cool it down, old man. You might burst an artery.

US public school system for elementary and secondary schools absolutely sucks. ABSOLUTELY SUCKS.

I'm a professor at a university. I get freshmen coming to the university that are barely literate.

Apparently the 'youth' have terrified elementary/secondary teachers into no longer demanding that the 'youth' really know anything.

America is bow-under-the-water and the stern is going verticle in a Titanic sinking of the former Country into an ignorant, lazy, mouth-breathing sea of stupidity.

Don't let this happen in Australia.

thankyou!

AMEN! God, that gets on my nerves!!

You still don't understand that, do you? LOL

My favorite is when people say "for all intensive purposes", instead of "for all intents and purposes".

A close second is "unchartered course", instead of "uncharted course".

honestly,that should be the last of yer worries what a dumbass for complaining about ones grammer. I would think that the fact that they feel free to talk about ANAL on primetime t,v. would shock the shit out of you. I caught that at a friends house. Don't watch that mindnumbing crap anymore. really get a frickin grip. Oh feel free to correct my spelling errors as if that is what is important.

Yes, that one gets used a lot. *Cringe*.

It also annoys me when people misuse apostrophes. For example; "Yes, that one get's used a lot."

What about "too" verses to! Or even their, there, they're....

Agreed.
You know what one really gets to me? "Irregardless"
Ugh. Come on. Really? What is so hard to understand about the word "regardless"?

:hitler:

Here, maybe this will help you...watch to the end of the clip...

Then/than

Then- used refers to things that happen subsequently.

If it's cloudy and the sky is dark, then it might rain.
I'm going to the store, then to the doctor.

Than-Use it as a word indicating comparison.

LSU is better than Alabama.

Supposively instead of supposedly

Their are loosers over their to.

Because in English class in school, the teachers were more concerned whether we read To Kill A Mockingbird than learning any useful English lessons.

If someone feels they have something valuable to impart to the world via the internet, it doesn't help their credibility if they come across as too ignorant to spell the simplest of words.
When a poster claims to be a PhD in geology, physics, climatology etc., but can't get through a sentence without spelling a 4 or 5 letter word correctly, the weight of their words is seriously reduced.

oh,things may have changed,but McBeth was usefull,probably the template of my madness.

Post something like the following with bad spelling and terrible grammar, readers will dismiss it as "crazy talk"....if they even give it any attention at all.

But if it's written well, people just might be more inclined to at least read it to the end with a better appreciation for what it says.

"I live a couple miles from an I95 interchange. Between me and the interchange is a large childrens' hospital with an adjacent Ronald McDonald's House facility. These two sites are very important in this region for what they are. The original grounds and buildings for the hospital was donated decades ago by one of the VERY elite families in this country.
A large swath of that area underwent a MAJOR reconfiguration (roads, many acres of terrain) recently that included the interchange and the entire area between I95 and the hospital. During this time there was constant blasting and heavy machinery operation.
On the surface of it there was nothing really unusual considering the job being done.

When the work appeared complete the blasting could be heard and felt for about 6 months afterward. To me, that was more than a bit unusual since there was nothing above ground being worked on any more.

The hospital, of course, has a helipad which one would expect to see med-evac choppers land on and depart from.
For years the traffic was several choppers per week...at most.
But during this construction period it became 5 or 6 every day...all kinds of 'copters at all times of day or night (nothing really large though many were clearly not medical). Unless children all over the area were suddenly in need of emergency evac, this traffic is unusual.

After construction...still 5 or 6 per day...for about a year after. It continued for about 6 months after the weird blasting ended..........until about a month ago.

First the weird blasting sorta had my interest. Then the helicopter traffic got me thinking and I suspected an underground facility of some type was either upgraded or newly built. The plans for all the above ground work are public but nothing is available about anything underground so if it is something below, it's "secret".
Now, the nearly complete lack of helicopter traffic REALLY has me wondering.
Looking back on the time period as a whole, I get the impression that there was a hurriedness to it all."

Love it!