I'm not a grammar Nazi, but...

[Ganji]

Whats wrong with being a grammar Nazi? If you don;t want to sound like an idiot (internet excluded) learn to spell!

"What's wrong with being a grammar Nazi? If you don't want to sound like an idiot (internet excluded) learn to spell!"
There we go. :3

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Woot, I still remember some html.

 

[OneOfTheMichael's]

I'm not to much of a grammar nazi but when people spell everything wrong it ticks me off.
There was guy who used to sit next to me and I was forced to read his story from teacher request and he spelled nothing right.
But it made sense when I found out he had a learning disability.
I get it that people spell things wrong but they can't help it sometimes.
And I hate it when people are always using "internet spelling " like "U" instead of you.

 

[TrevorGruen]

Whats wrong with being a grammar Nazi? If you don;t want to sound like an idiot (internet excluded) learn to spell!

"What's wrong with being a grammar Nazi? If you don't want to sound like an idiot (internet excluded) learn to spell!"
There we go. :3

Edit
Woot, I still remember some html.

hehehe way to go dood!

 

[TehCookie]

I'm not a huge grammar nazi but it does rub me when people refuse to use basic grammar. I'm fairly certain they're not that stupid and just lazy, but is it really that hard to use basic capitalization, punctuation, and spelling?

"I could care less..."

That means that you do care, at least a little bit. It's not what you think it means. One dude tried to justify it by saying that although the British say "couldn't" and the Americans say "could", it means the same thing. I don't think he's ever heard the word "opposite".

I just now realized I've been saying it wrong my entire life. I've always used it literally, as in I do care a little and I could care less than that. I could care less how people say that, but when they are so plainly wrong I can't help but correct them.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

The one I see and which bothers me the most is the differentiation between "you're" and "your". "Your going to regret this" someone writes. "My going? That doesn't make any sense!" I think.

 

[gritch]

If you have difficulties actually listening to the message of a written text just because you're obsessively bothered by spelling-mistakes, then that actually says more about your very intelligence than the education of the writer.

You do know that the POINT of language (written as well as verbal) is making oneself understood to others. So if you can clearly understand what someone else is saying, regardless of spelling errors, then what is there to be bothered about?

I'll tell you what: the fact that some people are incredibly neurotic, most likely suffering from some kind of social disability that they lose the ability to focus on the subject matter and start nitpicking over trivial details like spelling errors. It's a sign of immaturity and a pretty textbook case of it:

"The word is supposed to be written like THIS, because THAT is what the teacher in school taught us, and you don't write like the teacher told us we should so im going to disregard the message I can clearly read and go ballistic instead!" *rage* <-- honestly, does that seem like a mature and adult reaction to you?

So to all you grammar nazi's or you who are just borderline grammar nazi's, take this to heart:

Yes, some people do not spell correctly, but if you can understand just fine what the person is trying to say, then it's actually something much more wrong with YOU when you react the way you do and even start to lose focus of what the person is trying to say in favor of being nitpicky. And in fact, that is a much more severe problem that you really should try to adress than being less than perfect at spelling or grammar.

So each time you feel the rage building up, try to think of what purpose language has. It's not a competition in who can remember how to spell most words correctly, it's a TOOL to make yourself understood.

What you say is true, the most important part of language is the ability to communicate properly. As long as one can adequately express their opinion the language has severed its purpose - proper spelling/pronunciation be damned. But at the same time language is an agreement between people in a culture to say, write, and construct sentences in a uniformed way so that communications between people is not only possible but precise. When one blatantly ignores these agreements dictated by society one can not help but be slightly annoyed.

Improper spelling/grammar often comes off as the writer not bothering to take their time to organized and present their information in a coherent manner. This intrinsically leaves a bad impression of the writer (especially when one is presenting an argument).

I tolerate improper spelling in texts and other informal forms of communication, but when trying to present yourself as an intelligent rational being to strangers proper grammar and spelling go a long way.

 

[MidnightCat]

I've seen several people misuse "whom" lately, as in "...we didn't know whom made it". It's nice that they're trying to be grammatical, but they're DOING IT WRONG.

I also hate - and this has vexed me for years - the use of "off of".
Acceptable ---> "The turning off of the light."
Never acceptable ---> "The phone was hanging off of the lanyard" , "Get off of me!" and any other variation. "From", sometimes "on", and even just "off" can all be proper alternatives, depending on context.

And one last thing, "it's" always means "it is". If more people understood this, I would be a happier person.

 

[evilneko]

Copied from the duplicate thread:

You know what really bug's me? You know what really drive's me up the fucking wall's? When people abuse those poor apostrophe's! What did these poor little punctuation mark's ever do to deserve such horrible thing's done to them? It make's me want to grab the person and pluck out their eye's, break their finger's and painstakingly smash each of the key's on their keyboard!

/SelfDemonstratingArticle

Something else that bugs me is a grammar nazi who makes obvious grammatical errors in his own post. Seeing that makes me want to quote their post and fix the errors for them.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

What you say is true, the most important part of language is the ability to communicate properly. As long as one can adequately express their opinion the language has severed its purpose - proper spelling/pronunciation be damned. But at the same time language is an agreement between people in a culture to say, write, and construct sentences in a uniformed way so that communications between people is not only possible but precise. When one blatantly ignores these agreements dictated by society one can not help but be slightly annoyed.

Improper spelling/grammar often comes off as the writer not bothering to take their time to organized and present their information in a coherent manner. This intrinsically leaves a bad impression of the writer (especially when one is presenting an argument).

I tolerate improper spelling in texts and other informal forms of communication, but when trying to present yourself as an intelligent rational being to strangers proper grammar and spelling go a long way.

Here's an idea you might find radical to say the least:

How intelligent and rational a person truly is, ISN'T determined by their willingness or ability to always use proper spelling and grammar at all times.

A persons intelligence and ability of rational thinking is best seen through how they reason, argue and meet the arguments coming from others, in a conversation (written or verbal, doesn't matter).

So what is all of this with the supposed "importance" of correct spelling an use of grammar? It's just etiquette, and that's all there is to it. It's about as important as knowing what fork to use at a high-class restaurant, in order to eat the food brought in (i.e not very important at all really).

And you know what? I for one don't really care much for people who are actually trying to judge my or anyone elses intelligence based purely on matters of etiquette. In fact, the very action of doing so just proves that their own intelligence is quite dubious and thus they invalidate themselves as useful parties of an intelligent conversation, since they are completely irrational by thinking that they could ever judge someone elses intellect through something so trivial.

 

[Johann610]

Muphry's law states that anyone who CORRECTS another's spelling or punctuation will inevitably screw up somewhere. I wish they wouldn't bother.

 

[Sassafrass]

Pretty much nothing bugs me, apart from grammar nazis. Why?

Well, it's the internet.
Home to many different nationalities that don't speak English as their first language. Some people might even have dyslexia, which makes it harder still. And yet, these guys (Grammar nazis, I mean.) just go around, correcting people smugly, acting all superior. They are the bigger problem in my eyes.

Pretty much, if I can make sense of it, I don't give a fuck what type of "there" you put, it's pretty much going to make bugger all difference in the end. Grammar nazis need to fuck off from the internet.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

CollegeHumor delivers

OT: I don't usually bother with corecting people i just let it go by in peace. It will only cause them trouble, not me.

 

[jrizzle90]

Someone at work said, "what even is that?". I thought that was really weird because I've never heard that before. Then not even 5 minutes later someone else said it. That was a bad day for education...

 

[Saviordd1]

When you can't spell basic words. If you can't spell inquisition, fine, I wont hold it against you. But if you spell "Which" "wich" I wont take you seriously.

 

[BabyRaptor]

I have a guildie on WoW that has a crusade against the word "that." He always types "tht" because "it's faster." Doesn't adhere to any other type of chatspeak that I've seen...It drives me insane.

Hi. My name is Candi, and I'm a grammar Nazi.

 

[Signa]

"Then" and "Than" people: learn the fucking difference. They aren't even the same word!

Though it is pretty funny trying to read some sentences as written. It conjures up some funny images when the sentence still works.

 

[sleeky01]

I once heard a good and wise man say "Nothing said before the word 'but' really counts."

 

[drh1975]

"Different than" rather than "different from" is one that gets me. But that doesn't compare to the multiple misspellings of "definitely" that I see.

 

[sivlin]

I agree completely. Is't jsut plane rydikuloos.

Ridiculous is a ridiculous word. Every single time I type that word I have to stop and think about how it is spelled. For some god forsaken reason, every time I go to type ridiculous - I want to type rediculous. I think it has to do with people putting emphasis on the "ri" to make it sound like "reeee" all the time.