In this day and age where communication is VITAL in our every day lives, it really irks me when people can't spell/form proper sentences correctly. Granted, if you're an immigrant I'll be more patient with you. However, I know university students who can't spell really simple words and can't grasp basic concepts of the English language!
My biggest peeves:
It's DEFINITELY, not defanately, definately, defenetely....
It's should have, NOT should of. I don't care if it sounds like 'should of' when we say it out loud, it's HAVE.
It's and its - completely different. Don't use them interchangeably!
Your and You're - again, there's a difference!
It's grammar, not grammer; just cause it rhymes with hammer doesn't mean the ending is the same.
In the IM world, chatting without capitals is acceptable to me, and using such short forms like 'ppl', 'u', 'LOL' are okay as well. I do it all the time because it's efficient! What I don't like, is this:
'i m sik n tyrd of ppl who type lik dis b/c it gets frustratin there r no commaz so i cant tell wen dis sentence or paragraph is supposed 2 end'
If you claim to be intelligent and you can't spell it right - it makes you look stupid! (I make a lot of typos, but I can spell :P) If you're an editor and you write that you're an 'edittor', I don't want to read your newspaper. Come on people, I'm no Shakespeare, but get the basics down!
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You took the words right out of my head. I look at stuff written by kids these days I and I fear for our future. Why don't people realize that if you write like a differently-abled monkey that they'd be treated like one as well?
ur 2 aNcIeNt, gUrL.
- esta
That's like my pet peeve with the news on the Chinese station (Fairchild), I've seen these anchors before, they've been in Canada at least 10 years plus and for the life of them they still can't pronounce some English words correctly.
For example, a headline about Verizon will always be pronounced "Vary-zon". These people must literally shun American/Canadian TV or soemthing if they have never seen a Verizon commercial and heard its proper pronounciation; these people are so out of touch.
It irks me so...
I agree with everything posted except for the "ppl" stuff. It can't be that much more efficient :P
There's a "I judge you when you use poor grammar" facebook group that has your name written all over it!
Yeah I agree with you on but with the way Internet culture is spreading, the future for proper English looks grim. Even I have trouble sometimes writing a nice formal report when it comes down to it. Instant message lingo really does scare me sometimes especially using z's instead of s's.
This sounds like it came straight out of my msn name, AHAHAHA.
ie. "It's depenDENT, not depenDANT", lol.
WOOOO. =))))))
Great work.
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