Date Posted:21:42:52 10/14/02 Mon Author: sheepdog Subject: hmm In reply to:
sheep
's message, "pointless" on 01:38:28 10/14/02 Mon
"Your finding that as a normal person, no one gives a sheep's balls about you..."
Can't resist saying that if the people who write on this board could do with a dictionary, then "sheep" could do with a grammar textbook.
Here comes the science bit, concentrate:
"Your" is a possessive adjective. Hence it should be used only for constructions such as "YOUR tiny brain" or "YOUR message is highly offensive to some of the lovely people who visit this site and kindly shove YOUR own thumbs into sockets rather than pissing everyone off".
I think you mean "YOU'RE", which is a contraction of the two words YOU ARE, and as such has a very different meaning. As in "YOU'RE annoying".
Thank you. Normal service will resume shortly.
p.s. I had noticed that he'd used the correct construction earlier in the message, but I choose to believe that this is an aberration rather than a genuine knowledge of the English language, sheep being rather stupid animals.
