Grammar Nazis!

[magic]

Does anything piss you off when reading something? Generally I don't mind, but the incorrect use of "their, they're, there" and "your" or "you're" grinds my gears for some reason (even though I do it two :bleh:). I use commas and quotation marks out of proper context, as with most punctuation actually... An ellipsis with more than three dots annoys me as well. Not too fussed with capital letters, generally when I'm online I couldn't be bothered typing with two hands and sometimes things look better without them. Hyphenating, joining words together, colons and semi-colons I do not care to know and manipulate a lot. And too much of anything like lolspeak cn jst mak me loos rspkt 4 sum1!!!!11!?/!??//!? Oh, and longish paragraphs that look cluttered, like the one I just wroted.

[k2hsharpe]

personally, i get seriously pissed when i accidently type your instead of you're or there instead of their in skype chat or anywhere else i can't retrieve my grammatical integrity. Come to think of it, it annoys the shit outta me when i see someone do it here in the PF (intolerant fuck that i am). It also irritates when every first letter of every line is a capital (that bastard MicroSoft Word has a lot to answer for - as do people too fucking lazy to change the settings away from this particular default). And i have to say, people who think of punctuation as an optional extra ... well, i can only hope god has added a special level to hell for those inconsiderate arseholes!

but i really should confess, i'm more than happy to use nouns as verbs and vice versa, to use crass vernacular lunched within language propriety and misuse the english language in any way i wish. When i so choose to do so! You probably haven't noticed, but i tend to use the 'fuck' word a tad too often also. Oh, and i use way too many of these little fuckers: : -)

: -/

having said all of that, i suspect the difference between those that don't give a fat rat's about grammar and the Gramma Nazis is the same difference to be found between those with tatts and those with no ink - those with tatts really don't give a fuck that those with no tatts have none?
(laughing)))

[hiderinthebutterbox]

starts to count the times she must have really pissed K2 off...
then once i get into two figures realises I dont give a tuppence anyhows:bleh:


seriously i dont care either way what people do, i take into consideration someone may have dyslexia, or English may not be their native tongue *shrugs*.
I think as long as the message gets across... does it really matter?

I am however less tolerant of grammar nazis on forums who mostly have no idea of the back ground of the person they are dissing :dead:

[TroostAvenue]

Hell, here in America, if you cant talk english good you otta learn or go back to where you belong. Oh, and welcome to Arizona.

[smorzando]

There's no point in being a grammar Nazi over the internet, because my pet peeves are things that I have even done at one stage or another. No one's perfect, and therefore no one can have impeccable grammar.

[NightLighter]

I'll second that, smorz!

[The iPoet]

Hail spellcheck!

I am indeed a Grammar Nazi.

[Gardenhead]

I'm in your mold (mould? =P) I think, k2. Intolerant fucks, the pair of us. Persistently sloppy syntax pisses me off.

Oh, and when people use 'disinterested' to mean 'uninterested', I mutter murderous thoughts to myself for weeks. I'm going to go back to my hole now.

[danecobain]

I'm the same, I always find myself correcting people! I guess that we love the English language too much to watch somebody butcher it :P

[Morte Corax]

People who lack the ability to space paragraphs.

Does anything piss you off when reading something? Generally I don't mind, but the incorrect use of "their, they're, there" and "your" or "you're" grinds my gears for some reason (even though I do it two :bleh:). I use commas and quotation marks out of proper context, as with most punctuation actually... An ellipsis with more than three dots annoys me as well. Not too fussed with capital letters, generally when I'm online I couldn't be bothered typing with two hands and sometimes things look better without them. Hyphenating, joining words together, colons and semi-colons I do not care to know and manipulate a lot. And too much of anything like lolspeak cn jst mak me loos rspkt 4 sum1!!!!11!?/!??//!? Oh, and longish paragraphs that look cluttered, like the one I just wroted.

[magic]

People who lack the ability to space paragraphs.

Agreed, it's probably the biggest crime, after ignorance.

Does anything piss you off when reading something? Generally I don't mind, but the incorrect use of "their, they're, there" and "your" or "you're" grinds my gears for some reason (even though I do it two :bleh:). I use commas and quotation marks out of proper context, as with most punctuation actually... An ellipsis with more than three dots annoys me as well. Not too fussed with capital letters, generally when I'm online I couldn't be bothered typing with two hands and sometimes things look better without them. Hyphenating, joining words together, colons and semi-colons I do not care to know and manipulate a lot. And too much of anything like lolspeak cn jst mak me loos rspkt 4 sum1!!!!11!?/!??//!? Oh, and longish paragraphs that look cluttered, like the one I just wroted.

[Morte Corax]

Agreed, it's probably the biggest crime, after ignorance.

see how annoying it is!! Can't even read the whole thing :toff:

[Hare]

I'm interested to discover this thread because there was a similar discussion on another forum, from which I recently removed myself. LoL. Now, do you hate 'LoL'?? I have studied hard to learn all the subtle nuances of cyber speak, even to the point of taking a list of all the cute little 'LoL's and PMSL's etc' to the youngest shop assistant I could find and demanding an explanation.:) Now I have just used one of those little smilie thingies which means a person doesn't need to even use a word at all!!!!
On the forum I left which, I hasten to add, was not devoted to poetry, the discussion went along different lines altogether. In fact, grammatical correctness was considered a sin of the highest order.
I am despondent. Clearly I fit neither there or here. Guess I'm just a sinner!!!:bleh:


Hare.