YES! Me too! Not a native english speaker, but never had any problems with this. Someone told me it's because of the different learning process involved. I'm from Germany and here are lots of people who are the same with some German words.

not to mention the article "a" preceding a word with vowel sound

They learn to speak english before they learn to read it, we learn it the other way around.

You aren't missing anything. Most of us are just idiots.

I will never understand how individuals learn English if it isn't their first language. For example....big (THREE letters), little (SIX letters), read ("I can read a book." I have now read read book. It was good!"), red ( a color), lead ("I lead my horse to the pasture." OR "Is there lead in this pencil?"). I could go on and on. Bless those who can grasp our ridiculous spelling and pronunciation.

Your me-sing evrithing, deer

The one that's even worse to me is "have" vs "of" , like "I would of known" ... I get that in America they're pronounced almost the same but the meanings are so different! Same here, I'm not an English native.

It’s called being lazy and not caring about grammar.

I AM a native English speaker, and I don't even understand it!!

you're = you are; your = it belongs to you.

An American education

also a and an

The lack of intelligence I believe, as a native english speaker

You're not missing anything. Your education was quite thorough.

your is like if it belongs to you it's your thing and you're = you are

I know. They're not even pronounced the same way. The thing that bugs me the most, though, is people who write 'should of done' or anything similar instead of 'have'. That sentence doesn't even make sense!

I've noticed on social media devices other than a computer, it's an extra step to put in the apostrophe (you have to go to the character's screen). Personally, I think it's laziness. My personal pet peeve is "loose" and "lose". They seem interchangeable now, even in books. Makes my temper go lose.

Same here! English is my second language and I never had trouble with their/there/they're, nor with your/you're... I could never fathom why native speakers find this so hard...

god knows, Lisa. Was an Fb comment on something the other day - she too couldn't tell the difference between 'there', 'they're' and 'their,' so just went for 'there' every time. And every time it was wrong.

You are missing the fact either our teachers are not pressing the point or the majority of our students have already picked up the ignorance of their parents. Such an easy lesson to teach.. logic is not a factor.... look what we've got for a president.

AN idiot. Not "a" idiot.

Agreed. Seriously people, it's not that hard.

common sense is not so common

You're not missing much. It's not really so much a grammar issue, but more of a lazy spelling issue most of the time.

It's because you have another native language, in which these DO NOT sound similar. So they are easily separated in your (you're?) brain --- and not easily confused; any hint of a doubt you mentally translate and spot the error if there (their?) is one.

Same pronunciation, so if you don't analyse what you are trying to say you write the first word that crosses your mind. It's logical for you because you had to learn and reason the language and the grammar, so you see it clearly. I don't know what your mother tongue is. Mine is Spanish, and people with little schooling do this kind of mistakes all the time. Think of the most common mistakes in your language and you'll probably find the same problem.

Yeah same. It's all so logical!

Laziness, at this rate the English language might just evolve to use them interchangably

Your / you are (you're) and also the AN idiot

@ Lisa Florina What you're missing is the idiocy and / or laziness of some folks. Also, the failure of the USA educational system.

laziness more than anything

Some of us are just lazy (especially when it comes to texting) 🤣

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There are people all over the world who either cannot grasp it because they have a mental problem, or they simply can’t be bothered thinking about it. I don’t understand the second group but met too many of those so I know they exist.

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You're missing a large empty space in your head...mainly you have a brain. The ones that can't seem to spell correctly (or use grammar or punctuation) have a large empty space where their brain should be!

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Logic is way outside the capabilities of the intellectually challenged.

Good one👍.

Seriously, all these people correcting and calling him an idiot should be featured in this irony post.