He he. To be honest, I hadn’t thought of this one in the midst of their and they’re mix-ups as well as possessives posing as plurals, interchangeable possessive pronouns and other assorted errors. Says a lot about the state of education to tell the truth.
And it seem’s as though one of these errors has lead to another!
To us mistakes made and posted/printed/published in those arcane features of the English language grate the nerves and make us assume the writer is one or all of the following: Lazy (spell check is our friend), Ignorant (welcome to the wonderful world of teachers' unions), or stupid (can't trump genes).
It is sort of like what "penmanship" and normal mathematics (vs. "new math") was to the generation before us. In the late 60's and early 70's we could spell and knew the difference between "They're" and "Their" but our handwriting was almost illegible and we had to relearn how to do math as soon as we landed our first jobs which required us to make change.
On the latter point, don't you love the puzzled stares of checkout people when you give them $21.50 for a $16.50 tab and ten seconds before the correct change appears on their register's screen you tell them you'll take five one's?