You're and your, amirite?

I don't think this is an unpopular opinion at all

by Anonymous 6 days ago

it's not even an opinion. it's just a rant. "i like...." and "i hate...." statements are objective truths from the perspective of the OP. an opinion would be more like "no one has any excuse to mess up your and you're." or even the actual opinion OP put in the last line about praising people that correct grammar online.

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Or their and there

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Or then and than...

by Anonymous 6 days ago

I can stand all the others. This one pisses me off! It derails my brain! How can you go through life without this one being hammered into you? They aren't even that similar.

by petebecker 6 days ago

And "of" and "have"

by Anonymous 6 days ago

People using "could of" really gets to me, man

by Anonymous 6 days ago

What's the difference

by anissa87 6 days ago

And they're

by ChoiceElderberry 6 days ago

Tomato and tomato

by lily57 6 days ago

As a non native english speaker, seeing people often use "should of" instead of "should have" had me confused if i didn't miss some kind of grammar rule about that

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Should've

by lily57 6 days ago

Affect and effect

by Intrepid-Metal 6 days ago

Their, they're, your gonna be fine.

by No_Engineer_4872 6 days ago

To offer a counter opinion, and maybe mine is the unpopular opinion here, but I think that people who feel the need to correct grammar mistakes on the internet (especially when the message was perfectly understandable) do it because they need to feel superior about something, and the best they can come up with is by policing grammar rules they learned in elementary school. Your second grade teacher doesn't even remember your name, and yet you preach this information they taught you like it's the pinnacle of human excellence. You can either let language be a tool for you, or you can be a tool about language. Respectfully, of course.

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Also respectfully, seeing simple grammar mistakes is annoying and correcting them shouldn't be looked down on.

by Anonymous 6 days ago

The purpose of language is to communicate an idea or emotion to another person. If you are able to correct my language that means that you understood what I was saying. To me, at this point the person using the wrong words is still accomplishing the primary goal. The person correcting is just being pedantic. Its like shooting a basketball with bad form but still making it in the net each time. I don't think that person needs to be corrected.

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Exactly. Imagine if someone was so strung up that they told OP that the use of contractions at all is sloppy and lazy. He'd probably explode.

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Yeah, but there are times where grammar does make a big difference. "Let's go eat out, Grandma!" is very different from "Let's go eat out Grandma!". Joking aside, there are a lot of professional instances where using the wrong word, or minor errors in grammar can make a big difference. Especially if you're working in a text-only situation where there may not be context clues to differentiate.

by Crooksjaylin 6 days ago

I think you meant it's /s Yeah, I'm pedantic.

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Always feels like a superiority thing when people correct grammar.

by Anonymous 6 days ago

100 percent. Its like they couldn't come up with something to say, so they resorted to correcting grammar.

by Anonymous 6 days ago

How so?

by anissa87 6 days ago

I wouldn't expect you to understand

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Why?

by anissa87 6 days ago

Do you think what you said is an unpopular opinion?

by anissa87 6 days ago

Yes. Every time I see someone correct this grammatical mistake they get tons of hate for it

by Anonymous 6 days ago

I think u should listen to and understand what the other person was saying abt the introvert stuff and how it's not a big deal

by anissa87 6 days ago

your you're they're their payed paid

by Avery49 6 days ago

This isn't unpopular at all

by Anonymous 6 days ago

I'm the police.

by hrempel 6 days ago

The one that's totally inexcusable is "lose" and "loose." I can understand the confusion with contractions, but those are two different words with two different meanings

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Every time I see someone correct this mistake, they always get a lot of hate, so I figured this is quite unpopular on the internet

by Anonymous 6 days ago

I agree, there is genuinely no good excuse to not just use the proper version. It requires absolutely no more effort and is just a sign of laziness or flat out stupidity if you don't

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Its not hard to figure out either way hows that upsetting

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Don't forget "who's" and "whose"

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Eh people who feel the need to police grammar are more than a bit pathetic. Pathetic peeps deserve to be called out by those who have that "pet peeve."

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Less and fewer, too. An easy way to remember that is if you're talking about a discrete thing that can be counted, you use fewer. I use water and apples as an example... you can count the number of apples you have, but you can't really count water. So it's "I have fewer apples" and "I have less water".

by Crooksjaylin 6 days ago

It's blown out of proportion more often than not. Aside from being a pathetic petty attack on people when you don't have anything else meaningful to say.

by West_Dimension 6 days ago

*your

by Anonymous 6 days ago

It was bait and you fell for it :) But I hope you enjoyed feeling so smart for that moment

by Western-Writing 6 days ago

You is correct.

by Mobile-Audience 6 days ago

Not unpopular. I also hate loose instead of lose. Idk what's so difficult.

by wardzena 6 days ago

*deserves praise

by Anonymous 6 days ago

your overreacting bro

by Similar_Honey 6 days ago

Lose and loose sends me up the wall lol

by Anonymous 6 days ago

I'ma be real your making a big deal over something tiny maybe try you're chill pills man /s

by Anonymous 6 days ago

The pills ran out...

by Anonymous 6 days ago

and woman and women

by Anonymous 6 days ago

*First grader (is preferred)

by Anonymous 6 days ago

🤓‘s alt account

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Sounds like this is a hill your willing to die on

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Beggars can't be choosers

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Huh? Lol

by Anonymous 6 days ago

With all due respect, I disagree

by Anonymous 6 days ago

You're*

by Anonymous 6 days ago

I'm not that much of an introvert that it prevents me from having a successful life (so far) but being alone at home is the best feeling in the world and I have exactly 3 friends

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Yeah, it sounds like you're definitely high on the introvert/grammar sensitivity spectrum. That doesn't mean you can't have a totally normal life. It just means that you try to minimize and or control the amount of variation in your environment. Grammar is a set of rules specifically designed to not have too much variation. So a violation of grammar rules drives you nuts. Try to embrace the uncertainty, my friend.

by emarquardt 6 days ago

Don't tell me what's a soapbox for me. I think you're on a soapbox telling other people it's a soapbox.

by emarquardt 6 days ago

You seem pretty high on the derpy spectrum. That doesn't mean you can't remember to do vital things like remembering to breathe, it just means you have to minimize or control other factors that would distract you from remembering. So, soapboxes drive you nuts. Try to embrace the oxygen, my friend.

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Thank you, I'll look into the study (just another excuse to not socialize)

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Who needs standards, anyway, huh?

by Anonymous 6 days ago

I cannot agree with your outlook. Things should be done properly. It starts with spelling. Then there is behaviour around others. Driving on the road in traffic. Respect for others property and so on. What you are arguing is chill out, it's fine. No it isn't. Care for detail is important. Using "of" instead of "have" is not right. Spelling things incorrectly just distracts from the message you are trying to convey. Calling someone introverted is not a solution or an answer. Neither is the reverse of calling people lackadaisical. Care should be taken in our lives that things are done properly. This type of care blows up into more important things like the guy fixing you car, or your airplane you are about to travel on. You doctor who is treating your illness. Care for the little things become important. To dismiss this as some sort of display of introversion is just so wrong.

by Desperate-Bowl 6 days ago

Right but language is living and changing all the time. What we consider proper now would have not been proper decades ago. Words spellings have changed. We cannot act like this is some static thing.

by Anonymous 6 days ago

That's true, but if we don't have people like OP to police grammar every once in a while, then proper spelling and grammar become meaningless

by Anonymous 6 days ago

*deserves praise *second grade *so are you trying to tell me Is absolutely hate worse than hate? Sounds harsh. You should get that checked.

by Anonymous 6 days ago