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I mean is there a material pronunciation difference between the two conjunctions? I don’t think so, but I can still somehow manage to work out what people mean when they say use “your” and “you’re” in the same spoken sentence.
There are differences in pronunciation, at least for my southern British dialect. "Your" is said "yorr". "You're" is said "yeur" and is far closer to the "you are" it comes from. It's just said at speed blending the words.
There is quite the difference in the pronunciations. Yea, it's not that it becomes unreadable, it's just that it annoys me when reading...
Interesting. There's no difference in my dialect.