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Have you checked some newspaper articles? They always have some improper grammar or spelling. crying What is happening to the world!! question

I absolutely hate it when certain individuals type out "ur" or "your" when it should be you're! For sanity's sake, I always say "you are" under my breath, upon seeing said word.

"Mute point." I'm sorry, but the point happens to be "moot" not "mute." I see this in actual, printed novels that have supposedly been checked thoroughly by some kind of editor. (Forgive my wanton use of italics, but damn).

There is another small issue concerning the possessive that pops up quite often, and it irritates me to no end. If a person has a name that ends in an "s", then you still need to add another "s" to make it possessive. You don't just tack on the apostrophe and call it done, unless the thing that the person is possessing happens to start with an "s" or something sibilant.

It's James's chair, not James' chair, damn you all.

Also? "Separate." It's not terribly difficult to remember that the second vowel is an "a" as opposed to an "e".



I've heard horror stories, and seen some of the miserable mistakes first hand. And the most depressing part? Quite a few newspapers don't care. Glaring grammatical errors prompt only a shrug instead of the rightful panic. They have ridiculously lazy copy editors or no copy editor at all. I worked for my high school newspaper, and we were fortunate enough to have a very competent copy editor and staff members who, generally speaking, cared about spelling things correctly and using the proper homonym. Sometimes we spent part of the class period hunched over the city's newspaper, or newspapers from other schools, not sure whether we should be laughing or crying.

It's come to a sad state of affairs when upstart teenagers have a better command of the English language than professional adults.

Then my GRAMMAR teacher has taught me wrong. And I was in a high class school.

confused Sorry if I've offended you in some way. If you can tell me which part of the rant you take issue with, maybe we can...discuss it, somehow? I don't know.

In any event: this doesn't happen often (mostly in fanfic) but I do get a little bit frustrated when I see "peek" or "peak" being used in place of "pique."

I hate it when people say 'y r u'. God, what happened to words. I also don't like it when people put 'i' instead of 'I'.

Right -> "Rite"
I really hate that one scream .

I hate what most everyone has been saying. I mean, honestly people. It's equals "it is" and its is the possesive. What is so HARD about that? Any error that I see makes me cringe and wish I had a direct line into the culprit's ear. So I could yell. Very loudly. ^_^

And misspelling right, write, and the whole two too to you your you're yours thing...........It's ANNOYING. Can I throttle those people!? Please!?