EDIT: THIS WAS IN NO WAY DIRECTED TOWARDS MESSENGERS. It was written for all the incessant moronic posters on BF who didn't know how to spell "messenger" and the sentences were merely examples much like you'd see in a dictionary. I apologize if this has been confused or misdirected.

Dear douchie Mc ******face,

I think you need some help:

messenger
favorite
describe

you're= you are so smart, you're my favorite messenger!
your= your bike is so cool i am going to describe it to everyone.


whose= whose messenger bag is bigger? (shows possession)
who's= who is that jerk on the bike?


feel free to add to my list, or insult me out of ignorance and anger.

thank you/**** you in advance-
TIP

P.S. have a wonderful day! :)

EDIT: THIS WAS IN NO WAY DIRECTED TOWARDS MESSENGERS. It was written for all the incessant moronic posters on BF who didn't know how to spell "messenger" and the sentences were merely examples much like you'd see in a dictionary. I apologize if this has been confused or misdirected.

If I program this code in Linux, will something cool pop up on my screen?

i thought it was just a grammar lesson.

I tried it, and something cool popped up. But it wasn't on my screen.

Hey-ohhh. Thank you, good night.

I just peed my pants a little and nearly choked on a french fry at the same time.
I'm not even sure how thats possible.

And two more:
here
hear

there
their

and "they're". "too" and "to" and "two". i try to avoid homonyms myself, and understand the occasional typographical error...but yes. those are bad. and sentences that end in prepositions, unless it's just too damn awkward to word the sentence in a way that avoids that.

That these are somehow incorrect is a myth that refuses to die.

[Insert well-worn anecdote about Churchill and his secretary here]

Was it something I said?

My all time most cringe-worthy homonyn.
" Can anyone help me find a fork. Preferably one with no break hole."
brake -break
Used about 50,000 times on a bikeforum for Sheldon's sake.
(Just because you don't think they are cool to use on the road, doesn't mean you can't use them in a sentence!)

true, it's a pet peeve of mine, which is why i don't get too worked up over it unless it's a really awful sounding one. another pet peeve of mine is more akin to your response to mine--people who insist you cannot split an infinitive annoy the hellout of me. to simply say an old latin rule based on one word infinitives applies to english rules where the infinitive has two words is just...well, stupid.

fight! fight! fight!

...And for the knockout...
It is generally regarded that one cannot use the word 'be' as a verb. This is false.
Old English used this commonly as daily speech, and it carried over into the American South, where the speech was more 'English" than in the North, hence the drawl ( a courtly convention). African slaves picked up these anacronistic forms of speech and, lacking mobility, modified less that Southerners in communique with the novel speech of the 'Yankees'.

"We like to chill at the park."
"We be chillin' at the park"
"We will be chillin' at the park."
"We chilled at the park"

These are all proper examples of the use of 'be' as a modifier of tense.
So next time, don't be hatin' O.K.?

usually, everyone knows what the ****** means or is trying to mean. i may or may not start typing like that to piss people off.

terror, i dont think **** is a word. i looked it up on google and received no hits.

What has any of that got to do with the use of the word "be" as an adverb? In every example in which you use it, "be" is a verb. An auxiliary verb, but a verb nonetheless.

I'm going to totally kick his ass. Wait, I mean, I'm going to kick his ass totally.

i guess i fibbed, **** is some french cosmetic thing. sorry.

um, wait, they're from london and make clothes.

I only used it in one example, and you would have to be insane or obtuse to miss the implied lesson.
I did edit the post, nonetheless, ass hole. ;)

definitely.

remember, kids, the word "finite" is within the bounds of "definitely."


besides the above example, i only get ticked off at these things when they are in the subject line of a thread.

now go slag me for my lack of capitolization.

capitalization?

:D

Nyrie,

My bag is bigger.

I am that jerk on that bike(a conversion, by the by).

that was the joke!

where something was at
anyways... (this one drives me insane for some reason)
here here! (it's hear hear)

I pedal my bike.
I peddle my wares.

brake

break

not the same thing.

peddle - Ebay is where opportunists peddle their wares
pedal - I got these great NOS campy pedals on Ebay

Thank you.

*edit* - queerpunk beats me to the punch again.