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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

that's not a lack of apostrophe. your is just a different word. if there were a lack of apostrophe it would have said youre.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The sentence requires the contraction of “you are”, which contracts down to “you’re”. The apostrophe is still missing even if a different and grammatically wrong word was used.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The joke is that he's being more pedantic than you. /I think