They're on their way there. See? It
isn't that hard.
I know I've probably railed about the
misuse of the different forms of “there” in the past, so forgive
me if I'm babbling babbles that I've already babbled. But there was
a meme going around on Facebook this morning in which someone posted
that people join an organization because “there to stupid to do
anything else”.
Ladies and gentlemen, I believe we have
the very latest definition of the word “irony” right there.
I'm starting to wonder if this whole
“there/their/they're” problem is the latest version of the
“chicken & the egg” quandary. Are people just grammatically
stupid overall, and we notice it more these days because they post
everything they write on the internet? Or has technology—the
internet and spell-check—made people stupider, so much so that they
don't actually know which “their” to use here and there?
Some days, I just don't know.
Now, I make a lot of grammatical &
spelling errors when I write, as those of you who read this are no
doubt aware. I rely too much on spell-check, and each and every one
of these could probably use an extra round of proofreading, the time
for which is, unfortunately, limited. So I'm not claiming to live in
a glass house. I'm not claiming to be a perfect writer myself. But
if I were to post something accusing someone else of being stupid?
I'd make sure I wasn't an idiot myself.
But then, that's just me.
I'll shut up about this now, as my schedule for today has been thrown a bit askew and I have to figure out what to do. You see, I was supposed to go hang out with people who, I'm
guessing, actually DO know which “there” to use, four teams of
some of the brightest young people on the planet, who were to be taking
part in another action packed edition of “High School Bowl”. However, the weather in the western UP (from where two of the teams were coming) has pushed that back to Friday. Hopefully, the weather will have cleared up by then, and the teams can make it to here from there.
Just not their. Or they're.
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