Is anyone else fed up with people who don't even try to use correct grammar when they write? I mean, I realize I am the textbook definition of a perfectionist, but this has to be getting to someone other than me. I had a conversation with someone the other day who tried to make me believe that omitting an apostrophe here or a letter there actually saves them a material amount of time.
This got me to thinking. Being a numbers person by nature, I wanted to try and figure out exactly how much time I could save per day by omitting letters and destroying sentence structure.
I figure one keystroke takes me somewhere between one and three milliseconds to type (I'm probably being too conservative, here). So, if you do the math on that, you'd have to skip 1,000 commas or apostrophes to have one second of your life back. Is it really worth looking like that much of an idiot to live (and this may be a stretch) an extra two minutes?
Oh, one more thing. I realize that this isn't going to change anything for anyone. But please, for my own sanity, write the correct version of "your" or "you're" when you email, text, or write me. I am so tired of being told that I have intangible things in my possession such as my "awesome" or my "gay" when you really mean to tell me that I am one of these things.
This is totally up for any grammatical criticism that you have. Just leave your red pens at home.
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5 comments:
Try teaching 5th graders to write. That, my friend, is a beating. My current pet peeves are to vs. too and who's vs. whose. I promise, there (their, they're) are some people who have a mental block against that!
I will have to agree with kate with this one... it the to, two and too that bugs the heck out of me.
I admit to being a bit of a grammar nazi, myself, and find myself holding my tongue a lot when I feel the urge to correct people...(not literally. that would be weird...Oh, and I also hate when people say "literally" when they can't possibly mean it. "Really?! You LITERALLY almost died when they didn't have that dress in your size?!") ...buh.
A great first post. My mom is right there with you. She is the grammar Nazi. I might have to make her read this post. By the way the quote is genius.
I hate to think all things are about me, but I'm pretty sure this blog is. I want my extra two minnutes. Besides it's not the extra two minutes it's the I might die while texting and driving. Especially while trying to find the comma because I obviously don't use it often enough.
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