I was talking worst offense, scenario-wise. She basically told the entire office that she was just hired to run that she didn't know the difference between 'principle' and 'principal' and spell check wasn't going to save her.

She was in charge of writing the contracts for chrissake. Multi-million dollars contracts.

All rules should go out the window with texting. She definitely should have gotten "to" correct though, as it's less work, but trying to text "you're" is silly and "your" should suffice. Or just type out "you are".

Bah, f*** it, dump her anyway.

I know it's been covered, but my colleagues and I intentionally put question marks on certain statements in emails to take the edge off statements that would sound accusatory and confrontational otherwise.

You mean its myriad of errors, right?

Also, lightening.

I've enjoyed conversating about this.

NO IT ISN'T YOU GODDAMN ****ING MORON. This is the only grammar issue that legitimately makes me angry. I get a little annoyed when I hear it used, but when someone tries to explain the usage as sarcasm I want to rip their arm of and beat them to death with it Did u see what i did there??????????

Yes! Thank you.

Both "myriad errors" and "a myriad of errors" are acceptable. I prefer the former.

What about if it was irony? Like if you were good at grammar and you were posting in a grammar thread and you wrote "I could care less" knowing that it was incorrect. I wonder if that would be okay.?

This is more rhetoric than grammar, but it really bothers me when people preface a statement with "I guess" in order to distance themselves from responsibility for the content of the statement or the facts of the situation.

"I guess so-and-so is pretty upset about that email you sent."

You guessed that? On your own? If so-and-so is upset about the email just ****ing tell me they're upset.

Ha! You're WRONG! I actually get to bust somebody in this thread!

See, it says right here...













Oh. Goddamnit.

Orientated FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.

I remember being crestfallen the day I learned that 'irregardless', though not as optimal as 'regardless' was, in fact, acceptable English.



Sorry, whole nother ball of wax there...

grammar nits are the scum of the internet

But the opposite is sort of obnoxious too. When people preface their statements with, "Honestly," or "Frankly," it tilts me a bit. The honest answer is the default expectation. Those words come off to me as a subtly conceited abbreviation for STAND BACK AS I TEAR THE ROOF OF THIS MUTHA WITH THE BLISTERING, UNFLINCHING TRUTH OF MY STATEMENT!

It's even more obnoxious if they make you acknowledge it before proceeding:

"Do you think I would have a shot with Laura if I asked her out?"

"Honestly?"

No. Lie to me please.

Apparently, the use of quotation marks for emphasis is a practice that comes from people not having the option for italics with old-school typewriters.

The thing that annoys me the most is people typing "of" when they mean "have" such as in the phrase "would have".

while grammar nits are certainly the scourge of the internet, so too are people who feel compelled to communicate like 12 year olds. it's very difficult to argue that the internet has increased the clarity of communication - which, in the end, is what grammar is supposed to be about.