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But here are the two sub-sets of Grammatical English Rapists that I cannot stand, the people that irritate me on a daily basis when I see what they type.
- The people who misspell on purpose and alternate capital letters with lowercase letters. Obviously they are attention whores who have nothing of any value to say. I will give an actual example of this pulled from a FB friend that I guarantee will not read this anyway, "aight mane im soo tired of these fake ass lil boys tryn to act like dat bout sumthin when da really not hahaha bet dat" I have no idea what this person is saying. My wife and I get such a kick out of reading his statuses, I will often do a dramatic reading of them to make the effect all the better. I am not kidding this came directly from a FB status post.
- The people who have a lot of self-righteous talk or are always complaining about social/political situations but cannot spell half the things that they are saying. Like I said I understand typos happen, but when every other word is grossly misspelled it kind of loses its message. It would be like if the President had a really great and important message that he decided to publish in every newspaper and social media site and half of the words were misspelled...badly. A person's credibility on whatever it is that they are talking about goes right out the window when they are typing/spelling like my 4 year old. I'm not going to post a whole status of this person because they might actually read this and I am not out to hurt a person's feelings directly (but the only reason this person would read this would be so that he/she could disagree with me). Here are a couple of snippets and examples of his/her word rape: solatude (solitude), admireing (admiring), dume (doom), prisidential, (presidential), comunist (communist), inocent (innocent), spues (spews). I could go on and on but I think you can get the point here. Please do take notice that all of these are strong words.
My mom didn't care if I was bad at math or science. However, if I failed any grammar/English classes, I was in big trouble. 'Nothing is more crippling' is what she would say. I never failed, thank goodness! I am very aware of these types you speak of. All I can say is UGH!! and PLEASE JUST STOP!!! :) they make my brain scream. I can only thank my mom for that :)
ReplyDeleteInteresting that you commented on grammar/spelling today on your FB page....three posts down from that....it's "rhyme" not ryhme.
DeletePoint taken, touche' Anonymous person.
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ReplyDeleteI'm sharing! :)
ReplyDeleteAppreciate the love. I can't wait to share one of the e-mails I just recieved from an angry reader. If only she had read this first...
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