Grammar Is Dead, Long Live Grammar Nerds

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  • Krys_140
    Krys_140 Posts: 648 Member
    Grammar: The difference between knowing your **** and knowing you're ****.

    ^^^^^This!!!!! :heart:
  • Wonderwoman2677
    Wonderwoman2677 Posts: 428 Member
    Grammer and spelling, for all intensive purposes, are important life skills with no acceptions to the rule, even though we are here to loose alot of weight we should still take it into consternation.

    Funny! "For all intensive purposes" is one of my pet peeves, along with "should of"/"could of." What do those even mean?
    :laugh: Intents and Purposes

    Personally, one of my biggest pet peeves is "irregardless" It makes my eye twitch!

    LOL I actually heard a story about my grandad yelling at someone for saying "irregardless". It makes me laugh every time!
  • ChgingMe
    ChgingMe Posts: 539 Member
    and let me add alot and a lot... if you would't write alittle then don't write (type) alot...:smile:
  • healthybodyhealthymind
    healthybodyhealthymind Posts: 92
    Grammar nerd for life<3
  • FitLink
    FitLink Posts: 1,317 Member
    I agree!
    But... :blushing: I also love the icanhascheezburger.com.

    Me too.
  • _binary_jester_
    _binary_jester_ Posts: 2,132 Member
    Ahhh you people make my special parts tingle.

    Yes, obvious errors make my eye twitch. I used to jokingly make the grammar nazi correction, but people would raise such a ruckus, I stopped. But if your post looks like Merriam-Webster literally vomited words on the screen with a jumble of run-on sentences, I won't bother.
  • payupalice
    payupalice Posts: 126 Member
    My name is Jennifer, and I am a grammar nerd!
  • WifeNMama
    WifeNMama Posts: 2,876 Member
    Let's eat Grandma!

    Let's eat, Grandma!

    Commas save lives.
  • _binary_jester_
    _binary_jester_ Posts: 2,132 Member
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  • FitLink
    FitLink Posts: 1,317 Member
    Grammar Nerds R Us!

    I am a loud, proud, flamboyant grammar nerd, and my parents have always been very supportive. However, I realize that I'm lucky. Not all grammar nerds received such acceptance from their parents.

    My mom made me a grammar nerd. She corrected EVERYONE'S grammar! In public. Loudly. If you didn't want her to embarrass you, you had better get ir right!
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    Hello. My name is ********, and I am a grammar nerd. I am also in favor of proper spelling and punctuation.
  • shendras
    shendras Posts: 46 Member
    I agree!
    But... :blushing: I also love the icanhascheezburger.com.

    YES! I love icanhascheezburger.com.

    Has anyone else noticed themselves questioning their own grammar after seeing the same mistakes over and over? For instance, I have to question myself sometimes with "you're/your" because they're used incorrectly so often. :grumble:
  • kikilieb
    kikilieb Posts: 118 Member
    i no can haz grammah AND cheezburger?

    Aw, you're so cute... of course you can! :smile:
  • kikilieb
    kikilieb Posts: 118 Member
    Grammer and spelling, for all intensive purposes, are important life skills with no acceptions to the rule, even though we are here to loose alot of weight we should still take it into consternation.

    This is awesome!1 lololololololol! :bigsmile:
  • shellisugar
    shellisugar Posts: 120 Member
    My biggest pet peeve is when people tell me "Your welcome" in an email. I always want to reply: "My welcome what????"
  • ChgingMe
    ChgingMe Posts: 539 Member
    I agree!
    But... :blushing: I also love the icanhascheezburger.com.

    YES! I love icanhascheezburger.com.

    Has anyone else noticed themselves questioning their own grammar after seeing the same mistakes over and over? For instance, I have to question myself sometimes with "you're/your" because they're used incorrectly so often. :grumble
  • Amazon_Who
    Amazon_Who Posts: 1,092 Member
    I do my best with spelling and grammar. Computers and texting have killed spelling, grammar and handwriting.
  • LemonsAndCoffee
    LemonsAndCoffee Posts: 313 Member
    Let's eat Grandma!

    Let's eat, Grandma!

    Commas save lives.


    This is great! :laugh:
  • jaxbeck
    jaxbeck Posts: 537 Member
    long live correct grammer!!!!!!!!!!

    And spellings...!

    Effing hilarious!
  • jaxbeck
    jaxbeck Posts: 537 Member
    Grammer and spelling, for all intensive purposes, are important life skills with no acceptions to the rule, even though we are here to loose alot of weight we should still take it into consternation.


    PLEASE say you wrote this in jest?!!!

    ???i wrote it in Internet Explorer

    Classic case of someone TRYING their hardest to come off intelligent but only comes off as the pretentious fake they truly are
  • payupalice
    payupalice Posts: 126 Member
    I have been known to post this on Facebook from time to time: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling
  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
    Let's eat Grandma!

    Let's eat, Grandma!

    Commas save lives.


    This is great! :laugh:
    Long Live Grammar
    and Long Live Grandma!
  • p_e_wright
    p_e_wright Posts: 47 Member
    My BOSS, who is the Director of our department, has HORRIBLE grammar and spelling! It's atrocious and embarrassing! I'm not always 100% accurate but, if I'm unsure, I will look it up when it's important.
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    Did not know #4! :embarassed: :laugh:
    I am as shocked as you!
    Canada Geese, however, do exist.
  • EmpressOfJudgment
    EmpressOfJudgment Posts: 1,162 Member
    This is fantastic. I have had this conversation so many times over the course of the last couple of years. Texting and the internet is dumbing down our society. It's bad enough when people use poor grammar online and in texts, but I cringe when coworkers send emails using things such as LOL, u instead of you, r instead of are, or 2 instead of two. Additionally, I am irked when I see texting language in ads around the city. In my opinion, it's not trendy and hip to spell lazily. I do not want to buy a product more because the marketers are talking down to me and using sideways smiley faces in the ads when they could quite easily use upright smiley faces or, Allah willing, an actual face that isn't a colon and a parenthesis.

    Long live Grammar! Let's start a revolution!
  • kyle4jem
    kyle4jem Posts: 1,400 Member
    Grammer & Spelling were surely the Hollywood dream-team of the 90s that never was! :noway:

    I'm sure there was a pitch for Seattle 98102 that's lying unread in someone's drawer.
  • FitLink
    FitLink Posts: 1,317 Member
    I fully admit to my grammar nazi tendencies. I can understand all the abbreviation usage typing a text. In business, email or posts they become incredibly annoying. If I need a decoder to figure out what someone is trying to say, I am no longer interested. Typos <or typographical errors> don't make me crazy. Poorly constructed sentences, lack of punctuation and constant misuse of words just feel like a sharp stick in my brain.

    My name is Alicia and I'm a judgmental grammar nerd :blushing:

    I don't mind typos either. But nothing gets me more than an obviously fake "It was a typo!" reply to pointing out multiple spelling and grammatical errors.

    My name is Pjay, and I'm a judgmental grammar nerd. :tongue:
  • rowdylibrarian
    rowdylibrarian Posts: 251 Member
    A member of my staff once called me "The Comma Queen" due to my habit of adding missing commas into our press releases etc. and sent me a whole e-mail full of nothing but pages of commas saying "Surely you must have run out of them by now!" and as you can see I have. :)

    (Okay, that was almost physically painful to write, and it's going to be even worse to hit "post reply"...)
  • mturgeon05
    mturgeon05 Posts: 204
    I LOVE this! I just quit teaching English in April, so this is near and dear to my heart :heart: .
  • Im_NotPerfect
    Im_NotPerfect Posts: 2,181 Member
    Grammar geek here too! I'm a technical writer, so this is my LIFE!
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