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Originally posted by WillowIX:
Starshadow, their/there/they´re is another matter. They all sound the same and if you are not very familiar with the English language it is very easy to make mistakes. Therefore I hold absolutely no grudge towards people misspelling those words. [img]smile.gif[/img] I made a similar mistake on a French board once. French is not my mother tongue so of course I don´t speak it as well as say Moiraine or Luvian. So the misuse of their/they´re/there is not from laziness IMO. 
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Well, if English isn't a person's native language, then I tend to cut people some slack. But people whose native tongue
is English really have no excuse, since it's what they say and write every day. Sometimes people make typos (I know sometimes I may type one instead of the other), but when they use the wrong form ten times in the same conversation, then it just reflects badly on them.
Then again, you are talking to the person who corrects his friends' spellings in IM conversations.
