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your/you're isn't unclear (usually).

"how is babby formed" type stuff is what is incomprehensible.



Actually, you comprehended them just fine. This is why I'm saying people are prejudiced. A prejudice is when people aren't consciously aware of why they're mistaken.


I picked a bad example (which is an example itself of what I'm talking about; it's not specific to the rules of grammar...)

"How is babby formed" is still generally a bad question, marginally worse than "Where do babies come from?", in that it's unclear if the focus is impregnation or gestation, and "babby" could be potentially misinterpreted as "babble".

IMO OP was borderline "bad at written communication" too, at least if the goal was to convey factual details of the situation. It was entertaining, but unclear. Sometimes obscuring key details is the goal, but generally not in technical or business writing.


It's almost impossible to imagine someone reading their comment and misunderstanding them, unless they were bad at reading English.

The point you're trying to make is based on the mistaken assumption that they were being unclear. They weren't. Nothing was obscured. No one seriously believed that they meant to imply ownership instead of "you are."

They also weren't doing technical or business writing. It was empathy, which is sometimes helpful.


Any time that mistake is made in something I'm reading, I have to read backward and forward several times to ensure I know which it was supposed to be. This requires additional time and effort.

At the very least, not making an effort to use the correct word is extremely disrespectful of your audience and their time.


This. Time and effort that you make someone else spend on your words is time and effort they no longer have to spend on your message/meaning.

When you're in a situation when your message is competing with others, the clearer wording will out-compete muddled wording. That could be in advertising, recruiting, pitching, evangelizing, or any number of places where you want to influence the reader in some way. Every Joule they waste puzzling out your words is one they won't use being influenced (positively) by your message.

How often do you see you're/your confused in professional advertising or press releases? Very rarely.




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