It's because they are lazy. And apparently being or sounding educated is not cool? Is dat y ppl talk like dis? What do? My momz? Ima be doin things?
I don't understand anything anymore. I am officially old.
I am still explaining the difference to people in their 50&60s. I don't think this problem is going away, or your,you're. I think cell phones/Facebook made it worse.
I think mastering written language is beyond some people the same way some people don't "get" math. They can imitate what they've been taught but can't fully comprehend it.
There - a location (think about ‘here’, which is spelled similarly. ‘There’ is not ‘here’, as in the phrase “here and there”)
They’re - They are. It’s a contraction (two words pushed together, like I’m [I am]. It’s got the apostrophe in the middle to remind you to check if it could be written as two words instead).
Their - possessive third person (their house, their car, their terrible dancing skills). There’s not a handy way to remember ‘their’. You just gotta memorize it. (Uhm, accidental usage of there’s: notice you can pull it apart because of the apostrophe. ‘There’s’ is right because it can be written as ‘there is’. ‘Theirs’ would be wrong because no apostrophe. ‘They’re is wrong because when you pull it apart to ‘they are’, the sentence doesn’t work).
On the plus side, ‘they’re’ doesn’t come up much in writing. You can skip it forever, just use ‘they are’. Then you only need to remember there/their and there’s/theirs. Your post is excellent; don’t be so hard on yourself
Using second (and next) language may require thinking. Using first one unlikely - thinking may happen, yet it's not must. You think, they don't, - that's how you not understand them, cause you think, they don't - difference.
I don't understand anything anymore. I am officially old.
They’re - They are. It’s a contraction (two words pushed together, like I’m [I am]. It’s got the apostrophe in the middle to remind you to check if it could be written as two words instead).
Their - possessive third person (their house, their car, their terrible dancing skills). There’s not a handy way to remember ‘their’. You just gotta memorize it. (Uhm, accidental usage of there’s: notice you can pull it apart because of the apostrophe. ‘There’s’ is right because it can be written as ‘there is’. ‘Theirs’ would be wrong because no apostrophe. ‘They’re is wrong because when you pull it apart to ‘they are’, the sentence doesn’t work).
On the plus side, ‘they’re’ doesn’t come up much in writing. You can skip it forever, just use ‘they are’. Then you only need to remember there/their and there’s/theirs. Your post is excellent; don’t be so hard on yourself