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In reply to the discussion: I'm begging you! If we want to laugh at the "Moran" guy, and poke fun at the hilarious ... [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)because I have written it myself.
I used to see it in college papers that I was grading, and my red pen would fly out, and I would think, like you do, that that person did not know which word to use.
Now I know better, because I often re-read, and sometimes correct, stuff that I, myself, have written. I know that I know what the various forms of their, they're, and there mean. So I also know that if I have used the wrong one, it is NOT because I don't know which one to use. It is because what is thought and what is typed are sometimes not the same thing. Like the way I will often type "and" when I want to type "an".
Thus, if you see those kinds of errors, it is not necessarily the case that the person making them does not know any better. It just may mean that they are writing in a hurry and not anally proof-reading everything they write as if what they write is going to be read by a humorless grammarian who will wrap they're knuckles 4 every errer.