Grammar Fascism.

02May08

Ever since I was a kid, things like misspelling have always just popped out at me without me even having to make a conscious effort to notice them. Even now, I often find myself stopping in the middle of an article just to make note of a typo, or just involuntarily editing a friend’s spelling error while reading through their essay. Needless to say, I am pretty damn anal-retentive when it comes to grammar, if you haven’t already noticed from previous entries. I think a big part of it might have to do with my OCPD, but maybe I’m just faithful to the English language, har har.

Anyway, here are a bunch of things off the top of my head that get on my nerves:

• “more (adjective)-er”; e.g. more stronger [inspiration thanks to my yoga instructor]
• confusing past tense verbs with present/future tense; e.g. she eating the cake tomorrow. ARGH
• confusing singular nouns with plural (e.g. 2 peoples)
• “more better”
• incorrect usage of you’re v.s. your
• they’re v.s. their v.s. there
• its v.s. it’s
• lose v.s. loose
• grammar v.s. grammer
• separate v.s. seperate
• definitely v.s. definately
• typos, period.

Stay tuned for a follow-up entry, cause there will be one.

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Tags: bad English, English, grammar, Pet Peeves, spelling, typos