Dear Grammar Idiots

Yes, I'm talking to you.

"Your" and "you're" are actually very simple to differentiate. Rather than explaining possessives and contractions, as that seems to make people's heads spin, I'll simply state that if you can break the word you're using in any given sentence into "you" and "are", then you should use "you're." If that's not what you mean, then go with "your."

SIMPLE.

Also please note that the past tense of drag is not drug. Drug is either a pharmaceutical or, as a verb, means to give someone a pharmaceutical. Dragged is the word you want. Really.

Past and passed are not interchangeable. Costumer when you mean customer is just plain embarrassing. Bemused is not the same thing as amused.

Do not get me started on the then/than issue so many of you seem to have. That one is also simple to understand if you just think about it for half a second or so.

My advice: get a beta who has a clue, and instead of just using her/him as a tool, learn from her/him.

Sincerely,

Girl Who Shouldn't Read at Fanfiction.net

Bored with the Board

Am transcribing minutes. It's very boring. A woman just proclaimed the recent flooding was a blessing in disguise because it allowed the church members to be "God with skin" and, boy howdy, that phrase really freaks me out for some reason.