I admit it. I’ve already decided that I’m not going to go to my Minnesota Vikings meetup event in 2 weeks because the group owner sent out an e-mail saying “Come see the Viking’s play the Saints!” See the Viking’s what play the Saints? And someone else just advertised “Bronco’s” tickets. The tickets belong to the Bronco? I also saw someone asking about how zoo’s are. And don’t even get me started on their, there and they’re as well as your you’re. Did you really fall asleep in grade school when they covered that? I read some blogs where people completely butcher these words and I wonder how they are able to get companies to take them seriously and want to be publicized by someone without command of the written English language.
Of course, by no means am I perfect. There are words that I mis-spell, too. I often end sentences with prepositions. I get lay and lie mixed up easily. But if it comes down to it, I just won’t use the words if I feel like it will make me look uneducated.
I realize it doesn’t win me a lot of popularity points, and I’m ok with that, I guess.
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I’m a grammar and spelling snob too, then. I have a trick for lay/lie, though. Just remember living things lie.
That’s a great trick – I wish I would have known that years ago! I just avoid using any phrase that involves me laying or lying down
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I have a new grammar/syntax pet peeve each week, thanks to Facebook, and this week’s is precisely this mis-use of apostrophes (when things are plural and not possessive).
I also find myself wondering how blogs can be HUGELY popular and have tons of review/giveaway opps despite having horrific spelling and writing in general. It’s almost infuriating at times.
Not only would you have to miss school the day that they covered those words in grade school, but you would also have to ignore up to 12 years of schooling and getting back papers with your mistakes circled in red pen. It’s so embarrassing. If I’m unsure of even the *connotation* of a particular word, I will Dictionary.com that shit before I hit post.
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It almost worries me about teachers these days too – do they know the proper usage of their/they’re/there? I mean, I see so many people that don’t, some of them must be teachers, right?
But yeah, I get frustrated when I see bloggers who can’t use or spell words correctly that are working with big companies on reviews. I know it’s not all about spelling and grammar, but if you were say Nike or Apple or some huge company (just picking random big ones) wouldn’t you want your company represented well??
You probably hate getting responses from me. I didn’t learn phonics until I was twenty-one. I had the worst English teachers that there probably were throughout my education in the public school system, except for one teacher in high school. When I was in the eleventh grade Mr. Watkins (deceased) tested the class on the basics in his creative writing class.
He pulled me aside after school and said I probably had the reading level of maybe a fifth grader. He didn’t understand why no one had caught my problems before. I didn’t tell him that most of my English teachers thought that teaching was just sending us to the library for the class hour, or to read quietly in class for the class hour.
I know I butcher the English language. I proof read and rarely see my mistakes on their, they’re, and there until after I hit the sumit post comment button. The wrong words are most often noted when I have one of my headaches.
I make run on sentences, sentences with improper tenses and endings.
That is why I feared ever starting a blog. I know my limitations and lack of
education. Yet, in the past few days I did start my own little blog. It’s nothing much. I just hope the people who choose to read it are not
offended by my grammar goofs.
I think people online are more likely to type sentences exactly as they talk
in real life. I also think that many people when they proof read what they
have typed do not see their own mistakes. There is a certain word for that
brain glitch, just wish I could remember the scientific name for it.
Ahh well, I’ll just be the cringe in the teeth to those more educated than me, or is it suppose to be I?
I absolutely would NEVER hold it against someone with a learning disability. My brother has some issues with processing and getting things out on paper that he thinks in his head. But for the number of people that I see making spelling and grammar mistakes on the Internet, I would have a really hard time believing that each and every one of them has some sort of learning disability.
There are a lot of reasons that a person might use bad grammar. Because of a stroke I have help sometimes when I write, like now, and I do not speak correctly either, I skip over words,
I do not think you would be such a grammar snob if you were in my position. It would be wise to think before you judge.
As an occupational therapist who has worked with hundreds of stroke patients over the past 13 years, I am aware that it can impair your speech and spoken and written language. The people that I am referring to in this post are not people who suffer from learning disabilities or medical disabilities. I’m sorry that you interpreted it that way.