On 03/25/2002 12:06 AM, Garth Wallace wrote: > Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: >> Ben Bucksch wrote: >> >>> Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: >>> >>>> Its not the system is bad. Its just different. >>> >>> Some things are objectively bad. "I don't have no car" (for "I have no >>> car") is just logically wrong. And "Your out of luck" instead of >>> "You're out of luck" is, by the definition of the language, wrong. I >>> admit that the latter error is easy to make. But the former is, I >>> think, a genuine American symptom. >> >> The second second can be a matter of pronounciation, actually the same >> thing is being said. The southeastern part of the US prononces words >> much diffrently for the reast of the US. where people from around the >> Massachusetts/Vermont area come as close to sound like British as we can >> get without living in England. This area is in the northeast. I live in >> the Mid-atlantic area which is in between. When i talk I tend to have >> southern accent so I might end up sounding Like i am saying "your" for >> you're. > > It's not a matter of pronunciation. "Your" and "you're" are > homophones--they are pronounced exactly the same. It's a spelling > mistake, like spelling "read" (past tense) "red". >
Well, "you're" is "you are" whereas "your" is an adjective. Pronounciation varies. Here, the pronunciation is: Your - yor, yawr You're - yur, ure -- Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org
