On 7-6-2013 1:30, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:36:18 -0400, Warp wrote:
>
>> Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> OK. Now explain "there" instead of "their"
>>
>> Some people write "your" when they really mean "you're". This mistake is
>> kind of understandable.
>
> Not really.  If you know that "you're" is a contraction of "you are",
> it's very easy to see when it's being misused:
>
> "I think your wrong."
>
> "I think *you are* wrong."
>
> The error is clear as day - you're making a contraction and not using the
> punctuation that's necessary in a contraction.
>

My impression is that it is more common with native speakers. Probably 
because they learn to speak English before they learn to write. For 
those of us for whom it is a second language it is the other way around.

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