If your first language is English, you have no excuse for not being able to distinguish between “there”, “their”, and “they’re”.

The same goes for “your” vs. “you’re” (and also “two”, “too”, and “to”). These words are so commonplace that getting them wrong is just lazy.

I feel like telling people (politely) when they’ve used them incorrectly is the right thing to do, and saying “language is fluid” isn’t appropriate for such a serious mistake. I think it’s fine to ignore minor mistakes with punctuation and spelling, but using the wrong “there” actually changes the meaning of a sentence (often to nonsense), since the wrong word is being used.

I’ve seen a weird trend of people proudly not knowing the difference between these words, and it just feels like they’re patting themselves on the back for not understanding something that takes less than five minutes to learn. It’s embarrassing and it honestly makes people look stupid.

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