Even though it has been many many years (grade 2) since I was taught the difference between your and you’re, for some reason this lesson has always stuck with me. It’s like nails on a chalkboard to me when people mess it up.
For those of you who cannot seem to grasp the simple rules of contractions here it is again.
You + are = you’re
Stay tuned for tomorrows lesson on the differences between “There, their, and they’re”.
—Not a grammar nazi
This article appears in Jul 16-22, 2009.
Read this last night. People like you (spell checkers/grammar nazis) are named checked in the article:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/which-site-has…
It’s a fun read.
I’m with you OP. Grammatical errors and spelling mistakes online are one of my biggest pet peeves. This is not to say that I don’t make mistakes myself, but some people actually seem to do it on purpose.
I actually got an email this morning (from a client) that was one long paragraph with not a single punctuation mark or capitalized letter in the whole thing. Almost made my eyes bleed reading it!
The best place to find this is on Kijiji. I swear people get their toddlers to write their ads for them! So irritating.
I purpoisely du it the the all. Bteween Darwon lizzards, vegans, and “people that don’t have cable”, grammar/spelling nitzs are my fave peoples.
I just assume people are uneducated when they make spelling/grammar mistakes.
You are such a grammer natzi!
I suck at grammer
“tomorrows lesson”, huh?
I think teach meant “tomorrow’s”, shhhhhhhh
The thing is that even though it might have been initially taught in grade 2, it should be and normally is hammered into you for the rest of grade school/jr high/high school. On every book report and test and essay, you get dinged for grammar and spelling mistakes. So why is it that some people just never learn? It does drive me insane as well, I’ll see signs that people have posted at work that read “No Loose Garabe” on the garbage bins, or “Leave Streatcher Here” above the Stretcher. And I cringe every time.
My fave was “Steroe 4 Sail”
maybe tomorrows lesson can be on apostrophes.
Still a little confused on the meaning of your.
Could the OP’s Grade 2 teacher have been educated about learning disabilities faced by some students who don’t have the same written language comprehension skills as non-challenged students?
Or are spelling-challenged people victims of a modern-day education system that is concerned with quantity of students at the expense of quality education. Years ago, correct spelling was mandatory in school.
I judge people who fuck things up like “your” and “you’re” and “there” “their” and “they’re”….and “to” and “too”….
….does that make me a bad person? heh.
Seriously, it’s not REALLY rocket science, people. I’m not saying this as a university trained editor, either — I knew this shit back in junior high. Fuck I learned the difference between “there” and “their” back in grade three.
I should of paid more attention in elementary.
One of the quirky side effects of a learning disability I have with math was an uncanny comprehension of spelling/language skills at an early age. Because of this I learned to avoid judging people based on math/language skills or lack thereof. Feel free to pick apart any post I make. I do judge people on social skills, though.
Sometimes people write things in a hurry and don’t proofread, so I think the majority of the mistakes that you happen upon in the run of the day aren’t out of stupidity or a lack of understanding but out of carelessness. We can’t all be perfect 100% of the time, as with the case of the OP messing up the apostrophe in “tomorrow’s lesson”.
Eh. I really SHOULDN’T judge people for that shit, cranky, I really shouldn’t. I have a photographic memory and that’s why I remember grammar rules. Mind you, I’d forget my head on the bus if it wasn’t attached to my neck, but shit like grammar tends to stick out. I know not everyone’s like that.
I don’t like seeing grammar mistakes because it slows me down and I can get confused in the meaning of the words. Also, I find it hard not to judge people a little as uneducated even if I know that intelluctually I shouldn’t.
Nonetheless, some things that are jarring in speech such as “I seen the bus run over the yapping papillon” are even more startling in writing. I prefer to hear “I saw the bus swerve and deliberately run over the yapping papillon”. It just sounds smarter and I don’t like papillons.
Supopsdly tehre hvae been stduies dnoe wehre as lnog as the frsit and lsat ltteers are in the rghit palce msot peolpe can figrue it out !
But hey wtf do I no 😉
Let’s not forget the rather large segment of society that hasn’t figured out the whole ‘Then/Than’ thing.
ie: I’m smarter then you.
Jesus.
And let’s none of us forget the lose vs loose. I can’t believe how many people can’t get it right,
The people who who post unreadable comments with atrocious grammar and spelling are annoying; and the ones who keep pointing out grammatical and spelling errors are just as, if not, more annoying. Especially when the comment with the error is actually a well thought out comment, and all the grammar nazi has to say in response is, “duuuh, you’re wrong because you messed up their and there, idiot!” instead of thinking out an actual rebuttal.
If the grammar is so bad you can’t understand what’s being said, then go be a grammar Nazi. If it’s one mistake, and the rest is coherent, fuck off.
Can tomorrow’s lesson be “effect” and “affect”?
Couple of fuckers, I say.
Oh goodie, I always had trouble with those two! Please do, I’ll hover in the front desk. It’s a cool effect most folks can’t do, but it has a weird affect on some folk.
RE: ‘tomorrows’ absent apostrophe…let he who has not sinned cast the 1st stone…humanity is as diverse as it’s grammatical capabilities…live and let live.
Hey, we all make mistakes, the people who point them out are assholes.
I blame the schools…
and the internet…
and the parents…
and the government…
and rap music…
Just don’t blame the people who make the mistakes and are uninterested in learning. Why should they learn how to write properly, when we all “know what they meant to say.”
I think grammar Nazis are filling an important role. The English language is going to hell in a hand basket. Texting and typing are ruining the language. When books and newspapers were the most common things people read there were editors keeping the language neat and tidy. Now people read blogs and other linguistic cesspools and we’re losing our grasp on what’s right and wrong. Those of us who knew are losing it and they aren’t teaching it well enough in school.
I’m scared people. I don’t want to live in a world of ‘idk my bff jill’. I wish I could set a perfect example but I’m slipping too…
Damn, apostrophes were alway my weakness….
Epic fail.
I can’t win can I?
I am so fucking sick of people saying that texting and the internet is ruining the language. Languages EVOLVE. They are always changing, always have been. This is nothing new. Grammar Nazis are not “filling an important role” they are making no difference in stopping this change whatsoever.
Technology always changes things, deal with it or get left behind.
It’s not texting and the internet that are ruining the language, it’s the people who believe that because they’re using these mediums, that it’s okay to use improper grammar. Or that somehow it’s actually somehow right to do it.
And I’d hardly use the word “evolve” to describe the phenomenon.
I think the language is alive and does change…………..therefor……….it is evolving.
(Doust thou remember times of yore?)
New words are indoctrinated every year but grammar is not often fucked with. There are distinct differences between poor grammar, poor spelling, introduction of new words, and technological abbreviations of convenience…………….these are all getting mashed together here in the discussions of the thread.
Personally………….I have trouble with……..ah………the period.