Reality Check by Dave Whamond for March 14, 2019

just a nother dum tooon.

I guess I’m a bit of a grammar nazi. I twitch when I see incorrect spelling and improper grammar.

First one, you didn’t let him finish.

“Grammar nut”. You mean someone who doesn’t use 3rd grade English?

Defanatly

He COULD care less if he tried.

I’ve got a preposition for you…

I’m going a little crazy just now….

And don’t get me started on misplaced apostrophes!

Some spelling, grammar, and usage mistakes are more irritating than others. There isn’t enough time in the world, though, to correct them all.

And it’s human nature for people to blame the person who points out their mistakes rather than correcting themselves.

You should see what happens at FBOFW when the kids ridicule each other by saying: “stoopid”. It’s like someone threw in a ham into a pool of piranhas!

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain

I prefer to think I’ve moved on to focus my obsessions on more significantly misleading or meaningless misuse of language in verbal communication. For instance, the wildly popular but idiotic and illogical expression “going forward” is one that especially grates, or the use of “look” in a hortatory sense, when the speaker thinks bluster is the proper path to persuade or gain credibility.

Another that seems to vex me no end of late is compulsive insertion of “like,” not as a filler, but in the creation of an unnecessary simile when the speaker is referring to the actual thing itself. There’s a particularly comical example of this currently in public radio advertising for the language learning company, Babbel.com, where customers can “learn languages like Spanish, French or Italian.” And I always want to add, “… but not those actual languages. No, we’ll teach you Latin, Portuguese and Swahili instead.”

Ain’t botherin’ me none.

Bad grammar makes me nauseous.

Yes, it’s true M.S. Word grammar checker sometimes is way off base.

Yore right.

I hate it when spelling errors are called grammar errors.

@M2MM, That’s okay then, we’ll make sure you feel rite at hom ere! Ay warrantied dat!

“Your stupid”

“My stupid? That’s you…”