Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: > Ben Bucksch wrote: > >> Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: >> >>> Its not the system is bad. Its just different. >> >> Some things are objectively bad. "I don't have no car" (for "I have no >> car") is just logically wrong. And "Your out of luck" instead of >> "You're out of luck" is, by the definition of the language, wrong. I >> admit that the latter error is easy to make. But the former is, I >> think, a genuine American symptom. > > The second second can be a matter of pronounciation, actually the same > thing is being said. The southeastern part of the US prononces words > much diffrently for the reast of the US. where people from around the > Massachusetts/Vermont area come as close to sound like British as we can > get without living in England. This area is in the northeast. I live in > the Mid-atlantic area which is in between. When i talk I tend to have > southern accent so I might end up sounding Like i am saying "your" for > you're.
It's not a matter of pronunciation. "Your" and "you're" are homophones--they are pronounced exactly the same. It's a spelling mistake, like spelling "read" (past tense) "red".
