Sell/Sale

[FamousAJ]

pipe down in heer. nowon wants to hare you're rumblings

 

[sleeperx4]

Don't sweat the small stuff.

 

[briarcreekguy]

My pet peeve is: Lose/loose. I hate is when people confuse the two and I see it all the time. I know it is stupid, but the mistake really gets me riled up.

 

[jakeman]

Are you saying that you personally get these confused or that their misuse irritates you as well?

If the former, you used "you're" correctly. Either way, here's a quick way to help remember:

Your = yours, mine, his, hers, etc. It shows possession. "That is your gun."
You're = Conjunction of "you are". You wouldn't say, "That is you are gun."

Same with their/there/they're

Their = Possession. "That is their gun."
There = Place. "The gun is over there on the table."
They're = Conjunction of "they are". Just like "you're", you wouldn't say "That is they are gun" or "The gun is over they are on the table."

No, I wasn't, but thank you so kindly for your help, you're very gentlemanly.

I'm in sales. I sell things for a living.

It's on sale or it's for sale. You can't "sale" anything, especially not a boat, then it's sail, but you can certainly sell something, and I do, every day, or I'll get fired.

But, thanks for the hand.

This really ain't that hard (yes, I did that (ain't) on purpose). And it's different from ur, prbly, and cya. If you're gonna (again, on purpose) take the time to spell a 4 letter word, and it's sell, then take the time to spell it right. It's and its, is also a pet peeve of mine, as is do and due, but mostly just in business letters, I'll let those slide every time on the interwebz. I just ain't got the time in my busy day to be bothered about any of it really, but I do believe it reflects poorly on the writer.

Saying that to say this, sometimes I get in a bit of a hurry, and make a mistake or two myself, and I've inadvertently let auto correct change a typo misspelled "you're" to "your". Hey, it happens. I try not to let **** like that ruin my day.

 

[EFsDad]

I agree with you're post, but your going to catch hell.

I see whatcha did their!

 

[been]

sell, sale, cell, sail. It dont matter to me none which one ya use.

 

[dennishoddy]

I'm with the OP on this one.

 

[Perplexed]

Sale = noun

Sell = verb

Noun = thing

Verb = action

That's the extent of my grammar knowledge.

"Sell" can also be a noun, as in: "Obamacare will be a hard sell here in Oklahoma."

 

[caojyn]

My pet peeve is infer and imply.

In a conversation there is a sender and receiver, the sender implies and the receiver infers from the implication.

 

[mugsy]

It's not that freakin' difficult people. Geez.

You SELL something.
Something is for SALE.

You don't SALE something. You're not SALEING it unless it's a boat and it's still wrong.

<end rant>

Life will be much better for you (and longer too) if everytime you see that same mistake - and you'll see it a lot on OSA - you just chuckle to yourself and move on, rather than blow a gasket.