By Anonymous - 26/02/2014 21:42 - United States - Northampton

Today, my daughter asked me the difference between "their" and "they're". This is the same child I've been spending thousands of dollars on to send to law school. FML
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712sash 26

"You're" daughter is going to be fine :)

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Bloink 25

one who asks questions is foolish for five minutes, one who doesn't is foolish forever

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1947Chevy 17

It's one thing to not care about grammar and another to not know

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Marty20612 5

Money spent well lol

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Fmlsea 28

well there goes all your money down the drain.

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Ihavegas 22

ah dammit wheres that receipt

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ballpython 15

If their education is being payed for then at least they're not going to be screwed when their student loan bill comes in the mail.

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DanielleinDC 33

"Paid". This is another thing that drives me nuts.

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finalyearsofhate 22

Have her watch the "fix your grammar"video on YouTube. It's hilarious and might cost that one up for her.

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mooman36 15

I am very bad at writing and using grammar and punctuation correctly. I am a native English speaker and tried very hard to learn them and yet I still make mistakes and forget the differences between very different words which sound similar. But I did a degree in maths and got a good degree from Warwick, which is top 4 for maths in the country. Just because she is bad at one thing doesn't immediately mean she'll be bad at everything else. Personally I'd support her for asking questions and trying to improve herself, especially when she is in a very stressful evironment normally, i.e. university.

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evilamoebaattack 20

Sorry, but Law and Math are very different - you need language every minute of every day as a lawyer (or law student) which I don't feel happens in your case. If she wants to study Law successfully, these little things are the ones which are absolutely fundamental.

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fleur_de_fevrier_fml 22

As a non-native English speaker, I don’t understand why so many natives don’t understand the difference between your and you’re and they, their and there. We learn that when we start learning English, it’s very straightforward. It really doesn’t take a genius to understand the idea. I did my master in the US and I remember one of my friends, who was a French TA, getting mental because many of his students had an English grammar sometimes as bad their French.

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jujuthefroggy_fml 16

For your native language, your first learn to speak: "there", "their" and "they're" are exactly the same in your mind. Then you have to learn their different function in a sentence and their different spelling, but you can’t easily erase years of “their, there and they’re” being the same in your mind. For foreign languages, you learn how to speak, how to write and the grammar at the same time. It’s easier to remember and to associate the meaning, the spelling and the function of the words. Also, when you write in a foreign language, you are usually more careful than when you write in your native language. (Try to ask to foreign students in France what they think about French people grammar and spelling…).

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fleur_de_fevrier_fml 22

# 67 > fair enough but in that case, it is the exact same thing for every language. In French we don’t even write the way we speak. We have lots of letters and endings that are silent because they are remains from Latin. German has declensions. Every language has its challenges. The big majority of kids will struggle at first when they start learning to write. Grammar is something that can be easily improved by making a bit of effort and by extensive reading. I honestly think that having bad grammar is simple laziness, unless you are suffering from some kind of learning disorders.

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jujuthefroggy_fml 16

It was an explanation, not an excuse....I am also very upset when my boss sends me e-mails full of mistakes AND with no punctuation at all! Just to say that English being your own language does not automatically mean it's easier for you to learn the correct grammar/spelling ….Especially if you don’t like to read! Oh and *you and not your in my first comment…

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edward80 18

You should make a tattoo that says "No Ragrets"

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poisongirl708 11

Sounds like she thinking of something else other than school.

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