So this blogging thing is kind of fun. I feel like my last two posts have been too not like my personality, so let's get back on track, shall we? Let me tell you my biggest pet peeve out there: POOR GRAMMAR. It makes me twitch, I swear. Both in person and in writing. I once read a Facebook post from a person who graduated four years before me, I think it was. This genius said something along the lines of "I know I have bad grammar, but you pointing it out to me really just makes you look bad, not me."....uh...NO.
Buckle in, because it's about to get real. Okay, first up-you're/your. You're is referring to the combination of "you are". For example: "Oh hey, you're an ignorant human being with a poor understanding of the human language.", then your is just showing possession. "Your hair is a flowing sea of blonde attractiveness." got it, kids? I got worked up just clearing that up, sheesh.
Then there's to/too/two. If you use "two" wrong in a sentence, I'm sorry, but YOU'RE an idiot. Using "too" is like saying "in addition to" in some cases. "I enjoy golfing, too!". Maybe that wasn't the best example but you get the idea, right? Then to use "to" is kind of for everything else. Wouldn't it be ironic if I used bad grammar in this post? Oops.
Then when people are talking, it's even worse. Going to school where half of the population is borderline redneck, I had silent conniptions on the daily. "I seen you the other day"...no, you ignoramus , you SAW them the other day. Like what even is life? I'm a little bit less aggressive about "ain't" because that's kind of arbitrary. However, when people use "was" wrong...that's that stuff I don't like. One of my teachers in middle school was guilty of this. He would say things like "if you knew you was going to be gone, why didn't you tell me?"....NOOOOO. I'm pretty sure he still talks like that to this day. I'm guilty of some slip-ups every now and then like the use of commas, maybe. But let's get real, if you can't get the basics, go back to grade school. This was just a small, condensed version of my daily struggles as a grammar nazi, so consider yourselves lucky. Also I apologize if I used things incorrectly in this post. H8 on it.
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