Spellcheck now checks my grammar?

by **TeeGee** on Sun Jan 05, 2014 10:00 pm

there and their, I always confuse them, but spellcheck fixed it for me

by **Dukasaur** on Thu Jan 09, 2014 4:10 am

TeeGee wrote:

there and their, I always confuse them, but spellcheck fixed it for me

Don't forget they're.

But if you need spellcheck to remind you, you probably went to one of those modern schools where you didn't get the strap for making stupid mistakes....

by **notyou2** on Thu Jan 09, 2014 12:18 pm

Bring back the strap!!!!

by **The Weird One** on Fri Jan 10, 2014 6:03 am

notyou2 wrote:Bring back the strap!!!!

Or just replace it with the cattle prod...less strain on the arm.

by **JBlombier** on Fri Jan 10, 2014 6:42 am

Nah, those measures leave marks here and their. What you wanna do, is pull they're hair. No parent will ever know that you touched there child. Oldest trick in the book.

- A primary school teacher

by **betiko** on Fri Jan 10, 2014 8:17 am

Dukasaur wrote:
TeeGee wrote:

there and their, I always confuse them, but spellcheck fixed it for me

Don't forget they're.

But if you need spellcheck to remind you, you probably went to one of those modern schools where you didn't get the strap for making stupid mistakes....

I really don't understand how people can make this mistake. I even pronounce it slightly differently. I think that for people who speak English as a second language like me, the fact that our mother language has completely different words for "there" and "their" makes this mistake impossible. I know I make tons of grammar/spelling mistakes in English, but first language people making the there/their or your/you're mistake have always amazed me. Some people here on cc make systematically the mistake, and you really wonder if they understand what they are writting..