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Are you a "Grammar Nazi"?

Anon — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 14:52:22 GMT

I was looking through BuzzFeed the other day as you do, and I came across this funny article about how grammar can REALLY change a sentence's meaning, hilariously so.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/commas-are-the-most-important

I must admit, I'm a bit of a grammar nazi. While I'm not so stringent about people not using capital letters, it's more the "They're, There, Their," and "Your, You're" thing that drives me up the wall.

One of my favourite online comics I read is The Oatmeal, he did a really good job in pointing out common words a lot of people are guilty of spelling wrong.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

wat do u guyz tink xo 😉

Re: Are you a "Grammar Nazi"?

marionh — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:57:14 GMT

"Time to eat children" -->

I often see "definitely" spelled "defiantly".

Re: Are you a "Grammar Nazi"?

Anon — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:44:03 GMT

I mean, I admit, when I'm typing rather quick sometime's I'll say "def"... but I know how to spell and predictive texts on phones really help out the whole "txt speak".
I have to say though, because of my galway accent, it wasnt till much later in my school life that I discovered i was spelling "Quarter" as "Quater", simply because I don't pronounce the first "r" when I talk. Horrendous -_-