grammar nazi party

[kalabugs_mom]

any graofftopicr nazi out there?

maybe not a full blown graofftopicr nazi but i'm sure we are just a bit.

what gets your goat?

is it the "your/ you're" conundrum?

is it spelling?

chime in!

[ElizabethK]

I personally suck at graofftopicr and usually tend to stay within the common forms of it. It does sometimes annoy me when an individual screws up a sentence structure so badly that it give a person a seizure when trying to read it. I also do not like when people do not paragraph, especially when they present a page length, block of text.

[IkuhoiuhiuI]

s.s. are you?

[drumseat]

their they're
affect effect
etc...

...... definitely any native English speaker that thinks the correct use of her mother tongue does not matter, irks me to no end!

Spelling? every single computer has a spell check installed... most spelling mistakes speak more of laziness than ignorance!

Punctuation? please, don't get me started on this one!

Osu!

[Cuervo]

punctuation...now that's another thorn eh?

Old_kyokushin is S.S. too!

[Jericho119940]

Dunno if O.K. counts coz nobody knows what it stands for, OK has kinda become a word on its own. But that brings in the question of capital letters lol

There, they're and their, and you're and your irk me the most, because I find they're the most common. Whenever someone insults me with "your a tool" I'll say "It's not MY tool, is it YOUR tool?" So far nobody has understood xD

Those are the only ones that bother me really though, coz they're so... well, separate words. Compliment and complement, affect and effect, I can understand those. Your/you're and there/they're/their are just fundamental :/

I don't see myself as a graofftopicr nazi, as much as someone with some iota of respect for the language I speak. It's like seeing someone do anything badly that I can do better - you'd offer hints to improve, right?

[espltdgm600]

I am not a graofftopicr nazi. Some people will say well you sound more intelligent and credible when you try to write correctly and maybe even thats true, but its not a deal of mine. The way i see it its just the internet and not my university course.

[SelenaGomez]

ah, but if you do something, you might as well do it properly. it shows discipline. and in martial arts, discipline is the way to learning.

[mittens98]

True, and for myself, I make typos all the time. You just dont see them because I correct them before I post anything.

[dak764]

Ahhhhhh....... sending virtual *hugs* your way!


Osu!