Language evolves. As the needs of the speakers change, so does the language. Spelling can and should change to become more consistent. Why is it important to spell ‘to’, ‘too’, and ‘two’ differently when they are pronounced identically? ‘Your’ and ‘you’re’, ‘for’, ‘four’, and ‘fore’, and so on. This is a holdover from days when the words were pronounced differently, or showing their origins from other languages.

None of this is relevant any more. People have enough to remember, without filling their minds with senseless and inconsistent rules of spelling that in fact vary between different English-speaking countries. It doesn’t matter that someone chose you’re when he meant your, or vice versa. Who cares? Or, since obviously some people do care, *why* do they care? It’s simply snobbery.

Misspelling words doesn’t necessarily mean a person is unintelligent, despite what some may claim. It could also mean a person simply doesn’t consider the form of the message as important as the content. I sympathize. The meaning is what matters, as long as it remains clear. Adding a stray apostrophe or getting a few letters wrong doesn’t garble the meaning.