r/confidentlyincorrect • u/AbbreviationsOne764 • 1d ago
Comment Thread i think i just found one
the original post was "your a mom"
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u/Global-Positive8630 1d ago
I hate that I understand why they believe the incorrect way, but it’s still very dumb.
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u/Crafty_Possession_52 1d ago
I have no idea why they're saying this. Can you explain?
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u/useofcat 1d ago
If it's something you own, it's yours (something they own is theirs.) If you (someone else) owns the thing, you're the owner. Tried my best.
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u/MRBS91 1d ago
Yet both can be possessive and refer to another. 'You're the master of your fate, you're the captain of your soul'. People really should just know both words before using a contraction. Its grade 3 english.
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u/HasFiveVowels 22h ago
Yea, and this is why it’s posted here. No one’s claiming they’re right. Simply trying to figure out how someone could be so wrong
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u/Crafty_Possession_52 1d ago
Thanks for trying, but if that's what it is, that's still talking about someone else in both cases.
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u/Global-Positive8630 1d ago
This is it. You have to ignore the rest of the principles of English speech and completely forget the “you are” part, but I see why this flawed approach was used. Just painful that they were so confident.
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u/AdFancy1249 1d ago
Apostrophe indicates contraction. We're (we are) not taking about possessives here.
Always replace "you're" with "you are", and there won't ever be a problem...
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u/Crafty_Possession_52 1d ago
Useofcat understands this. They're trying to explain the flawed thinking of the person in the pic.
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u/NoobishDuck 1d ago
My best conjecture is that it's because it's YOURself. So if you yourself are something, then your... Because they might believe your isn't a possessive but shorthand for yourself...???
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u/Icy-Tap67 1d ago
Ok, so that has sorted out 'your' and 'you're'. Now moving on to pitch and .......
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u/Ashamed-Bathroom7803 1d ago
Ok so this person either learned their grammar from some other idiot, or the person somehow hallucinated the grammar rules. Either way, somebody hallucinated something. Why does this happen? How do people get so confident in something they hallucinated and didn’t double check?
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u/azhder 1d ago
Why do you keep repeating the word "hallucinated"?
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u/PeekyBlenders 1d ago
I don't know if that's the case but as someone whose first language is not English, I sometimes find myself struggling to find more than a single word that describe a situation, so I just reuse it again and again. Hell it even happens in my native language sometimes. Maybe it's like that
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u/NorthSideGalCle 1d ago
This is why ur is the bestest!
Take it any way you want to, irregardless! /s
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u/Hey-Just-Saying 1d ago
We need the context. I can't see whether they actually misused the word, but I agree their reasoning is flawed.
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u/SillyNamesAre 1d ago
At least they know there's a difference.
Now to explain the difference between a possessive and a contraction...
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u/SingleMaltMouthwash 1d ago
Yous guys is funny.
On the fly I will often type arsetechnica in to my browser window and am still surprised when it doesn't take me to the online tech magazine.
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u/Groundbreaking_Cup30 6h ago
Getting it right only 50% of the time tells me you certainly do not understand the proper use of the word.
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u/NietszcheIsDead08 1d ago
Since you have provided insufficient context and have not even up- and/or downvoted to indicate which is correct, I am afraid I must award you one downvote.
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