"I like to make myself appear intelligent, however I haven't yet learned to use conjunctions."

Anyhow,

When I was younger, and just starting to learn grammar, I was pretty anal about being grammatically correct. As the years progressed however, I have gotten somewhat careless at times.

Usually my mistakes range from using the wrong You're/your, or their,there,they're, or even the wrong to/too/two. This is usually a result of me being distracted while typing something up. And unless someone comments about it in the tread, I don't usually go back and read my own post afterwards. I suppose I should, but I don't.

Sometimes I'll even type 'teh' or 'taht' as well. That's a result of typing 80-100wpm, and not taking the time to go back and double check. I realize that it takes my credibility down, so I've been working harder on taking the time to proofread lately.

As for the things that annoy me: I hate pointless abbreviations. In cellphone text messages I can understand the point. The point of cellphones is to contact people quickly. It's also difficult to type text messages on a phone sometimes. So abbreviations are handy and quick. On the internet though, or in chat, there is no reason to say something like. 'um, were r u'. You have a full keyboard of letters at your disposal. And even at 20wpm, you should be able to type a whole word. It mks me ir8 wen ppl us abbrvs fr no reson. et jst mks it sem lk u cnt spll. c how annoyng dat iz?

Then put a "s" after the apostrophe, as you're supposed to.

Depends where in the world you are, slick.

All my dogs have colds. My friend asked "How are your dogs's colds?"

Bad example I know, but doesn't that look awkward to you?

"How are your dogs' colds?"

Looks much better in my opinion. Alot of the different grammar rules were created to make the language sound better. So if you start breaking the rules, you sound like shit. Or at least your writing will look like shit anyhow.

I didn't turn the topic into anything. You were the one that chose to pick a fight with me.

All I did was post what I found mildly annoying in a topic, and simply left out the apostrophe in "c'mon" which apparently to you is an extremely big deal. After all you did refer to it as "maddening."

You clearly have an issue with me though, that much is obvious at this point. I have no beefs with anyone on this site, so if you'd like to express your issues with me via PM, I'd be more than happy to oblige.

How pissed off were your grandparents when their son and daughter concieved you? C'mon man, stop trying to get the last word, you're not going to win.

I'm talking about words that aren't plural. "Claus's bird flew away."

My bad, kinda jumped the gun on that one.

No, what you did was come into a topic about BAD GRAMMAR AND/OR TYPING, and complain about it while using BAD GRAMMAR AND/OR TYPING. Can you see the difference? It's cute how you try and play down your idiocy, though. Please, keep trying. You're doing great.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this one yet. When I was a regular World of Warcraft player it drove me crazy when people spelled the class 'rogue' as 'rouge'. So whenever I saw something like 'Group LF rouge' in one of the chat channels, I felt obligated to say "Rogue. ROGUE, DAMN IT!!"

Another one I've seen more recently in a certain online game, I have absolutely no idea how it could have possibly come about. It's nice when people spell out 'please'. Spelling it as 'plz' or 'pls' is one thing. But 'plox'???

A few that irk me:

environment (and) government
antarctic
judgment (no e after g)
disappoint
programme
desperate


Deni, just leave it. You can't change everyone, especially on the internet. The argument was fine after the first few posts - extending it is pointless.

Lack of correct spelling IMO shows carelessness or poor education. If you keep doing it, it becomes habit. It's alright if you constantly strive to improve. However, I've seen job applications go straight to the bin because of one spelling mistake. Write seriously if you want to be taken seriously.

It is spelled conceived, actually. The i before e rule. ;)

Ok, so because I added what I found annoying to the topic, and had a typo of my own(which we all have now and then) that makes me some sort of bumbling idiot. Got it.

I'll try not to ever leave out certain things in the future for your benefit. A horrible crime, I must say.

Except that you stated you did it on purpose, because you're lazy. That makes you a bumbling idiot. Got it?

And it still works the same either way.

Hey wait, you idiot. I did spell it I before E. I feel a little dumb for almost admitting I was wrong. Fucking douchebag.

i before e... except after c.

I would say that just makes me lazy, but whatever. I don't even care at this point. I gotta hand it to you, you did make me realize something in this topic.

I really am not annoyed by punctuation other than seldom, on a whim. Other than formal or graded documents, I got no real problem with the way people type online. Honestly, it is no big deal. There are far more important things to be worried about in life.

oh shit, sorry man. I'm on some pretty powerful painkillers right now. subject dropped.

Oh, we're sorry. That's right, you're not dumb, just lazy. That's okay I guess. You're such a good person for being lazy. I'm sorry I ever said anything against you.

Did your parents feed you drain-o when you were a child? Lazyness is not an excuse for poor grammar and typos. Or at least it shouldn't be. There is no such thing as lazy. "Lazy" people are just too stupid to know that doing things properly is the actual cool thing.

I mean, I can understand bad spelling and grammar coming from certain people. I went to highschool with a guy who was really slow. He struggled with spelling and grammar and just speech in general. In most everything else he was a genius, but he just couldn't seem to spell or write properly. However, instead of just going 'oh I can't spell but that's okay', he invested in some higher end spelling and grammar checking software for his computer so that even if he couldn't spell good, at least he had a method of producing error free documents and other things.

Speaking of grammar and spelling etc, whatever happened to the GFF Grammar/Spelling Police from back in the day?

I don't care about my grammar much on forums, etc. I usually try to avoid doing things like "u" and "2" to keep bad habits out of my head, but sometimes I neglect to use periods, commas, etc.

To each his/her own. If you want perfect grammar, then by all means. I just think it is a stupid thing to argue over. That's all.

So, back on the topic of Internet errors that annoy me.

People who make the errors that annoy me, and don't care. Then they get all pissed off when other people do care. Seriously, what is up with those people?

Which is why you came into a thread about grammar/spelling and complained initially.

"Program" is correct in the US, just like "center," "color," and "maneuver."

Dunno if you're being ironic here, but it's "spell well." "Good" is an adjective.

:( No irony, it's been awhile since I've had to write a professional essay or anything like that. So the little nuances of grammar have sorta slipped away. Also, my parents probably say that alot, so I probably grew up hearing it, and thus, until I went back and actually read it, it looked fine to me.

In all reality though, that's a minor thing. Things like that don't tend to annoy me. Talking on an internet forum, you read alot of things written by people where english isn't their first language. So naturally, there might be mistakes. Unless they've been learning english for quite a few years, they won't know every little think. As long as they know how to get their point across, then small grammar mistakes are forgiveable.

One I still screw up to this day is the proper usage of it's. I would constantly use it as a posessive, which my dad eventually hammered into me by saying "it can't have anything." I've since been quite good about it, and I'll always double check for it.

Actually, it can have something. The dog licked it's nose. =P However I might be wrong :(

Also, isn't it's also a contraction for 'it has'? At least that's how I used it in my last post there.

As far as I know, the possessive form of it is just "its" without the apostrophe, because "it's" is a contraction of "it is". It's the one exception to the rule, and naturally it will trip people up.

You'd say "The dog licked its nose."

The rule I have problems with is the placement of punctuation around a quotation. Inside or out? Surely not both.