you're or your

RayH

How about people who don't know the difference between then and than?
Or there, their, and they're?
Or too and to?
Or its and it's?

Despite being wrong, they all make sense, since they are pronounced the same, except "then" vs "than". I've never understood that very well, but I recently noticed that "then" and "than" can actually be pronounced the same when the vowel in "than" is not completely reduced to a schwa. So it seems to me that in fast or normal speech you have "Better thun me", and in slower speech you have "Better then me". Maybe I'm mistaken though... Reduction and raising of /æ/ to /ɛ/ in reducible syllables is something I just started to notice. I'll post in the pronunciation section too.

No they don't make sense. You can say it and it sounds right and we understand but not in writing! people know it's wrong if it is in writing because they recognize the words and not the sounds.

ex:
than is for comparison.
Then is to indicate the time.
too is like also.
to is like to do something..
it's is it is or it has.
its is belonging to something...

am i right?