People.

Now, I know that most people are good hearted and have good intentions, especially furries. They don't mean to do the equivalent of stabbing me in the brain with a fork hardwired to a car battery.

So I will do you all a kindness and give you a short, simple grammar lesson for today. This lesson is about the contraction "you're" and the possessive "your".

Now pay attention, this is gonna go real quick.

You+are= you're

Get it? It's a contraction. As in, to make smaller. You've shortened "you are" into just "you're" by replacing the space and the a from "are" with an apostrophe.

HOLY SHIT. Contractions are totally awesome.

Now, bear in mind, this is a completely different word from the possessive "your". As in "Your cat peed on my favorite hat" and "Please put your penis back into your pants."

These demonstrate the possessive of "you", and clarifies that not just any cat, but YOUR CAT, peed on my hat. That's different from Chuck's cat down the street. Because now it means that I'm going to pee on YOUR CAT.

So when you thank someone for a fave, a watch, or say, "You're welcome", remember, you're saying that "YOU ARE WELCOME." You're not saying "your welcome", because that's a partial sentence with no verb. MY WELCOME WHAT? WHAT ABOUT MY WELCOME? That's what I think when I see "Your welcome." It makes me nuts. I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO TELL ME ABOUT MY WELCOME.

I hope this was useful to you, at least until next week when you forget all about it.