Today, my daughter asked me the difference between "their" and "they're". This is the same child I've been spending thousands of dollars on to send to law school. FML
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Today, my daughter has spent the last few hours moaning that the boy she’s known since they were 4 years-old got a girlfriend instead of asking her out. She’s known him for almost 20 years. If she liked him all that time, she should have asked him out herself instead of moaning at me. FML
Today, my daughter and her "friend" kept using crude euphemisms right in front of me, thinking I was too old or too stupid to figure out what they meant. I nearly had an aneurysm when she told him he could put his "pencil" in her "sharpener" next time they studied together. FML
Today, my daughter is such a greedy idiot. Her ex was voluntarily giving her over £1000 for the kid but she decided she wanted more, and dragged him to child support court. She’s now only getting about £500 and her ex, who formerly had a great relationship with her, now hates her guts. Idiot. FML
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712sash 26
"You're" daughter is going to be fine :)
Bloink 25
one who asks questions is foolish for five minutes, one who doesn't is foolish forever
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Comments (118)
holliepong 8
Asking is the first step! Maybe she's just not good at language. Think positive:D
evilamoebaattack 20
Law's not a thing she'll be good at either then.
upallnight11 19
How is that possible?! English isn't my first language and even I know that shit..
A_Perfect_Circle 12
Reaching out is the first step to recovery OP!
BrickTamlandLamp 13
I don't know what to say about this except for the fact that it technically could've been just a small understanding. Maybe the daughter was actually good at law but just didn't know some things in life.
XxRedemption3xX 9
She's going to law school?...
fricgm 6
at least she cares OP
Ziggy122 15
So? Sometimes mathematicians forget basic arithmetic.
aquaticmammal624 12
It's really kind of sad that my English, which I learned in multiple schools, some of which were not in an English speaking place, is better than many people's English today...
MooseKnuckle5150 13
They're going to their house because you're not there!
Wowlookatthat 15
Did you at least explain to her that they're homonyms? and that they sound the same phonetically, but have different spellings to mean different things? or that "they're" is a contraction of "they are?"... that could prove useful. Especially if you taught her what a contraction is. The awfully sad part is that I know thoroughly the meaning and use of the terms and phrases and recognise them unconsciously while writing as to not make many grammatical mistakes. I'm a junior in highschool, I was supposed to take college level English this year.