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<blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 982507" data-attributes="member: 1328">I didn't knew it. Sincerely, I saw it frequently -- even outside of &quot;teh typo realmz of Intarnet massageboreds&quot; -- so I thought it was valid.You forgot &quot;you're&quot; and &quot;your&quot;. As well as &quot;it's&quot; and &quot;its&quot;.&nbsp; It's a problem of phonetics.The fact is that speaking and reading don't use the same areas of the brain. It's a proven fact. So, when we write, we first use the speech zone to formulate sentences, and then the writing zone to &quot;translate&quot; them into valid words. But the effort needed for that is not mandatory, we can do without. The result is errors. This happens mainly either if you have little self-discipline about that, or if you're too fatigued to pay attention.An interesting side effect is that people who express in a foreign language they don't know how to pronounce are less likely to make these mistakes (but, as they use a foreign languages, more likely to do grammar errors...). I've constated that, the better I grasp speaking English, the more frequent the they're/there/their confusion I made...It's especially bad on the Internet, because everytime someone reports such an error, he's called a grammar nazi.Writing well is, in popular opinion, the mark of an elitist snob.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gez, post: 982507, member: 1328"] I didn't knew it. Sincerely, I saw it frequently -- even outside of "teh typo realmz of Intarnet massageboreds" -- so I thought it was valid. You forgot "you're" and "your". As well as "it's" and "its". It's a problem of phonetics. The fact is that speaking and reading don't use the same areas of the brain. It's a proven fact. So, when we write, we first use the speech zone to formulate sentences, and then the writing zone to "translate" them into valid words. But the effort needed for that is not mandatory, we can do without. The result is errors. This happens mainly either if you have little self-discipline about that, or if you're too fatigued to pay attention. An interesting side effect is that people who express in a foreign language they don't know how to pronounce are less likely to make these mistakes (but, as they use a foreign languages, more likely to do grammar errors...). I've constated that, the better I grasp speaking English, the more frequent the they're/there/their confusion I made... It's especially bad on the Internet, because everytime someone reports such an error, he's called a grammar nazi. Writing well is, in popular opinion, the mark of an elitist snob. [/QUOTE]

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