Bravo, Jim, Jim, spots and corrects a current day, malefic malapropism, "your," a possessive pronoun, for "you're," a contraction, [ahem] as in You Are, boys. /lecture I've seen this modern style used here before but resisted becoming pedant and kept silent. However, as a reader it did slow me down upon having to differentiate between the two forms and the intent of the writer. I also understand the grammatical level of this List is informal and therefor can tolerate liberties such as mentioned. But beware of its limitations when in other, formal communications [might pass a grammar checker, heh, heh]. /sermon Carry on guys. I'll slink back into [note, not "in to"] my grammatical cave until my chain gets jerked. Peter ------------------------------------------------------ >>> jvpoll@DALLAS.NET 06/05/02 10:29AM >>> "Now if your a poor country that's wanting to export a million dollars of footballs, your being forced to accept a million dollars worth of goods." This line, as written, does not make sense. It may have to do with the misuse of a certain word, not once but twice, in place of a common contraction that actually represents the two words 'you are'. The only acceptable substitutes (in Texas) would be 'yer'. Jim -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu