there vs their vs they're

[morgorath]

Ok here is my point. While yes the grammar issue is to be debated... If I had said any one of those words in public would I receive the same berating Kakomu is giving the boards right now? No because they are pronounced the same. Now if I had typed fone instead of phone... I can understand someone correcting me, but when a word is pronounced the same it should be spelled the same. Hell almost every other language goes with the phonetic spelling. While you are most certainly in the right Kakomu, I think American English has a history of spelling mistakes. Is it something that needs to be a topic for forum discussion I guess so because we are here talking about it. Oops wait we aren't talking about we are typing about it a metaphoric grammar mistake...