Tuesday, February 27, 2007

stickler?

one of my main pet peeves is when people confuse the word "your" with "you're". i myself do not see what is so hard about getting the correct word in the right place right. "your"= possesion. what's mine is mine and what's yours is yours. "you're"= you are. you are cool. you are not. you're retarded if you say your retarded. ohmy. i'm rather mean, aren't i? am i a bitch? you can tell me if i am, i won't mind. it's something i need to work on.
i was sparked by this rampage just because i see it all the time. everywhere.on.the.world.wide.web. one person wrote an entire list of question asking about what "you're favorite" ____ was. you can imagine what a time i had reading that... i stopped after about the 4th question because i couldn't take it.
if you think i am a drama queen and that i am just getting annoyed by nothing, i'm going to type a whole paragraph with improper usage of "your" and "you're". you can decide for yourself whether i am simply an anal loser or, what i say has some truth and evidence.

dear johnny,
i used you're toothbrush today. i hope you don't mind. i'd like to mention that i'm just getting over a cold, so you might want to get a new toothbrush. your so kind! it's thoughtful of you to lend me a hand even though i know about you're little secret. yes, i know. don't try to hide it from me, johnny. but don't worry, i promise i won't tell a soul. you're secret is safe with me. well, i have to get to my dentist appointment, i've got to check on my gingivitus. it's been flaring up recently. thanks so much. your the best!

and i have no idea where this came from. it was a burst of output from my strange and perplexing brain.
when i think about this, i've concluded that i sound like a bitch. though i don't want to, i appear to be too anal and picky when it comes to these things. i suppose i'm a bit of a hypocrit, since i probably misuse other words or commit grammatical crimes. heck, i probably use way too much passive for my own good (though i'm trying not to). this issue seems really trivial and lame compared to worldly problems like poverty and homelessness, but i feel that as high school students, people should know when to use the proper "your" and "you're". in junior school, we learned all about apostrophes and how they "take the place of a letter". therefore, it seems quite simple to figure out that the apostrophe in "you're" must represent something... like, oh, THE A. ohhhhhhh well. i'll probably end up deleting this later because it really doesn't have any intellectual value to it. kind of like my borat post that i deleted.
i guess the whole "blogging" thing gives me the urge to just type whatever since it's a "blog". i go into a sort of "myspace" mode, (ohmygosh i can't believe i just admitted that) and just type random things. that's probably why i named my blog "random thoughts". i really am random. this reminds me of mr. dyke in chapel, when he reads his words of wisdom or whatever it is we are supposed to reflect about. his reading about conversations on the boys bathroom wall was certainly random... but extremely enjoyable to listen to. his monotonous voice doesn't make it boring at all, in fact, it makes his writing more pleasurable and it matches well with his papered train of thought. is papered even a word? okay.... i'm going to stop now before this gets any worse. sayoonara.

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