Why do supposedly intelligent people have so much trouble typing out "you're" and use "your" instead?

It's much more annoying in reverse.

get off you're soap box ... your just being annoying

Now your just being silly.

What about "different than"? It's "different from", people!

Arrgh!

your right ... sorry.

The brain is funny - I see some amazing typos, and even hear strange mispronunciations on occasion (latest one - a guy with a PhD pronouncing "doing" as "doe-ing")

Philo

philo, who's brain is funny?

is it you're brain or... IS it there brain.

- Gen X

It's .... The Brain




It's .... The Brain



It's .... The Brain




It's .... The Brain



It's .... The Brain




It's .... The Brain

surely, you mean "its" The Brain...?

That's actually funny, Sathyaish!

"What about "different than"? It's "different from", people."

I prefer "different to" and "differs from", but aparrently you Americans think otherwise. "Different than" is actually quite acceptable, though; objections to it stem from the mistaken belief that "than" is only a subordinating conjunction and not a preposition, but it's actually both. So there.

I misread this entirely and wondered why the OP needed to know the reason for the state of anyone's arousal.

"I prefer "different to" and "differs from", but aparrently you Americans think otherwise. "

Sorry, Matt, but we Americans acquired the full rights to the English language sometime during the 50s. I believe that Churchill offered that as collateral for the Lend-Lease thing during The War or something like that. We only allowed you Brits to keep your freaky spelling and nonsensical idioms as a goodwill gesture...

[g/d/r]

Since Churchill was half-American it wouldn't surprise me...

Good one, cynic! And a grand old broad his Mum was, too! ;-)