Today, I tried to explain to my 23-year-old boyfriend the difference between "your" and "you're". I do this every other day, but it's like his head is permanently stuck in the first grade. FML
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OP here. I love my boyfriend, but you wouldn't BELIEVE how lazy and unmotivated he is sometimes. I think his attitude of not giving a **** goes back to how he's always been fed with a silver spoon and been given EVERYTHING in life. He feels as if he doesn't need to do anything, and that it's all up to everyone else. That goes for getting a job and earning money to pay the bills as well as stupid stuff like this. His attitude is "if they can figure it out, why should I care?" That doesn't make him a bad person, but it's hugely insensitive. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the people here talking crap about me are exactly the same as he is. That "your" vs "you're" thing bugs the hell out of me anyway and it's not like committing the difference to memory is a hard thing. Long rant done, thanks. Edit: I didn't mean to reply to this comment. :S
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illmatic2 16
Ohhhh shit here come all the grammar nazis.
cc_the_beast 6
This FML is a grammar nazis wet dream.
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Comments (267)
taracrane1 7
He's probably doing it on purpose if you're annoying the shit out of him by telling him every day. I love my boyfriend.
aerogxt 7
Stop being a grammar natzi or just dump his ass.
THE_A_TEEN 28
*nazi
yosoyironman 2
Find a smarter guy
how2info 5
In this case, a female is being smart. I've regained faith in humanity.
Jewnut 0
wtf is wrong with you? there are worse things? like having a crazy gf who corrects her bfs grammar constantly. I wish that was all that was wrong with my bf. do him a favor and break up
Hts777 4
Some people just never learn
docscientist 10
I don't know if you should give props just yet, she is potentially giving this guy a chance to continue his genetic lineage.
denshchik 0
Well we all know it's not his personality/ wits that you're dating him for
TrentF13 12
What on earth has this world come to where people older than myself can't distinguish between two very simple words? Whatever it is, it's depressing. I feel bad that you have to continue to explain this so often, but I also commend you for it. It takes balls.
tj4234 36
tbh you should stop wasting your time. The way languages evolve (basically through laziness and overuse of certain words), your and you're will mean the same thing within the next few years. And you're will probably have died out by then.
TrentF13 12
I don't believe that's possible. 'You're' and 'your' mean completely different things. 'You're' is a conjunction word, meaning it is two words, where as 'your' is not. They don't even sound the same when you say it out loud.
DocBastard 40
Tj4234 - you're an idiot. YOU'RE an idiot.
tj4234 36
it happens in other languages. Why can't it happen in English? Take Gaelic for example. a chionn - long ago (pronounced 'ah keyon') os a chionn - overhead (pronounced 'oss ah choin' the chionn part is like you and you're. They were both words that looked sort of similar but mean entirely different things and are pronounced differently. But because people used them wrong due to grammatical errors, they became the same spelling. In the above case, this is also really recent.
downtime 13
233, That would only work in some instances. Doing that here would just cause confusion.