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Originally posted by dtb
OK. I'm coming out of retirement to ask you this one very important question:
- You don't think the your/you're distinction has anything to do with the past or present tense, right?
(just say no)
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I was wrong to call it a tense issue. Its really more a construction issue:
I start writing "You're suggesting 'slutiest' instead of 'sluttiest' has no authority behind it." I realize its bad form as I write.
Now, mid-thought, I shift and decide to instead go with "your suggested spelling." But I don't make the necessary switch from "you're" to "your."
The synpases misfire; I intend to say three or four different things and type as I think. The jumbled mess that emerges is Hank-like.
Jesus... did I just write that? Perhaps it is time to consider rehab...
