If you guessed that the error is confusing your and you’re, you guessed it right.  The pervasiveness of this error is just mind bogging.  This error is common among both college graduates and  people who never got their high school diploma.  Why do people make this error?  I think the reason is laziness and discounting the difference between the two as something insignificant.  The reasoning goes something like this: they sound the same, and the context will help the receiver  of the message to figure out which one I mean, so why should I bother to spell them correctly? A close second is the “there, they’re, and their” confusion.

The ironic part is that non-native speakers learn to differentiate and use these words correctly relatively quickly.  This type of error is rare beyond the beginning level of English acquisition.

I don’t know about you, but when I see a native speaker making errors as basic as this, I can’t help but wonder whether this person is  also sloppy about other things in life…

Bald eagle with a bold attitude!

Our restrooms suck :)

Would you complain after this warning?

Very funny

Vocabulary notes:

1)   to suck means to be horrible.

2) “Deal with it” here means “Just accept it, there is nothing you can do to change the situation.”

Flapper: A fashionable and socially rebellious young woman in the 1920s era.

I love this style of music, late 20-s early 30s.  It’s old, yet very modern for some strange reason.

I guess it just confirms the idea that the new is usually well-forgotten old.

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And I thought you get these questions  only if you speak with an accent…  Turns out you get them if you “look with an accent”, too!