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NBR: Grammar.. or lack thereof
So does it bother anyone else when people (anywhere) use bad grammar? Like on FB... when people use "there" in place of "their", for example. It makes me think less of them. Like they are complete idiots. Don't get me wrong, they are still my friend and I think they are sweet, funny, etc, etc. But I just think to myself, "Really?! We went to the same high school and were in the same English classes, but you don't know the difference between 'their' and 'there' or 'to', 'two', and 'too'?!" I can understand writing in a conversational tone (hence the way I type my posts), but using the wrong word in a sentence bugs me. Anyone else?
Oh and I worked with a woman who kept emailing me telling me to look at the "error" on page 31 and she put an "error" on page 45. I couldn't figure out why she would intentionally put an error on a page...... then I realized she meant arrow. Really?! Not the brightest crayon in the box.
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Re: NBR: Grammar.. or lack thereof
It does sometimes-I am a teacher afterall.
However, it has to be done all the time. If they usually get it right, but got it wrong once, I just assume they were typing faster than their brains were working.
I think it's worse when people I went to school with type like they never received an education..... Here is an example
"got hella classes 2day .. feelin like crap .. n it's hella snowin outside .. wish i was cuddlin up wit my babii.. .. miss him.. ill b home soon boo!!"
This woman is 27 years old and from a small town with a VERY good school. Why she acts like this I do not know.
Me too. (Did I use the right to/too). I really suck at the whole plural and possessive thing. I hate it when I spell something so bad that spell check can't even figure it out. I try to really watch myself so I don't sound so stupid though.
ETA: Weird, why does my font look different?
I am communicating only through PIPs tonight, obvs.
We moved to south Missouri and people down here say "y'ns"
For example, "Y'ins wanna go to the movies?"
Uuuuuhhhh, no. I want you to realize when you use made up words, your IQ drops 100 points.
I also hate people that can't figure out homonyms -- too, to, two, their, there, they're, etc.
One of friends did this on a quiz in college. I remember because she was docked points. Mind you, it was not an English class.
My biggest pet peeve of all is using numbers to replace letters, or typing without vowels, like:
"My hbby js b0t m3 flwrs, s0 sw33t 0f hm!"
Drives my fvcking insane!!!!!
I correct people's grammar! It drives me crazy. Moved to the south 2 years ago and can't count the horrible things I hear, "Might could do" comes to mind...
*blog*
This drives me nuts, too. But I usually try to ignore it, especially on FB, TB, or other message boards, etc (unless it's REALLY atrocious). Not worth it to bring it up in most cases IMO.
The text speak outside of texting is annoying, too. And replacing letters with numbers/dropping vowels. Not everyone wants to read something that is, in essence, gobbledygook!