One of my biggest annoyances in life is incorrect spelling and grammar usage. It's especially prevalent in today's technology-dominated world. With texting, emailing, blogging, Facebook, and Twitter, we're typing more than ever, but most of us can't be bothered to use proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Often I feel like I'm the only person who actually cares about that...because I have an English degree or perhaps I'm just strange like that.
Either way, it's one of my passions. I'm easygoing about most things, but blatant spelling errors, total lack of punctuation, and careless grammar drive me bonkers. In fact, when I was younger I was one of those annoying Grammar Nazis who made a point of correcting my family members' often-atrocious grammatical errors. (And if I wasn't correcting, I was inwardly cringing.)
The truth is I still do cringe when I struggle to read Facebook, Twitter, online forum, and blog posts that are nearly incoherent. And I might never truly understand why some people don't care if they sound unintelligent (or unintelligible, at least), but I've realized that's just it - some people really don't care about spelling, grammar, and punctuation. And they don't understand why people like me really do care.
So I guess we'll just have to learn to tolerate each other. But, while we're doing that, here are a few helpful tips to ponder...
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