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Originally Posted by Dan in Pasadena
Not sure what response you expected to this, "however....please allow me to retort!"
On the subject of grammar and punctuation; I am no expert BUT there are a few things I read here and all over the place that DRIVE ME CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
In no particular order:
The indiscriminate subsitution of "then" and "than" - I've even seen this in national publications. Are you effing KIDDING me? You don't know these two words have entirely diffrent meanings? My car is faster "then" yours? 
"Your" in love? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh. That is supposed to be a contraction of "you are", hence you're.
I've got to repair the "breaks" on my car. Again, two entirely different words with different meaning.
And when anything is said to people that make these errors, they react as though YOU have a problem for being so uptight. Like understanding the language, having an education and using it and not being so lazy as to use poor grammar and words improperly is a flaw of character. Yikes.
Okay, I have vented now. I feel better. I think I'll take a brake now. It's all you'res. Than I'll go get a beer!  |
Thank you! One of my biggest, no, in fact
the biggest pet peeve of mine is people who can't spell correctly or show correct punctuation and grammar. As a staff writer on my college newspaper, I can't tell you how many mistakes went out in every issue, even though we had an "editor"
I even found a left-out word in a Reuters news article today...geez, what is the world coming to? And I especially love it when I find typos in the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, and yes, I have found some!