Grammar Nazi, and proud of it
posted by CodeGirl
I decided to stray a little from ‘coding’ related items, to add a few rants from here on out.
I admit it, I am a Grammar Nazi, it’s hard *not* to be one.
I really do feel that poor grammar makes you appear stupid. I cringe when a management-type sends out email with the wrong its/it’s or worse, wrong your/you’re. It is really quite simple:
its - possessive.
it’s - contraction, short for ‘it is’your - possessive
you’re - contraction, short for ‘you are’
I’ve had a few guys IM me, send me email, or even a message inside a matchbook, that states “your cute”. I appreciate the sentiment, I really do, but I just lost interest in dating you. I want to find you, and tell you that the message got cut off somehow and I need to know “my cute *what*?
Of course no one wants to hear “you know that email you just sent out/post you just made? yeah, it had a flagrant grammatical error that makes you come across as a total dope”. *I* would want to know if I had done something such as this, and would want to know what was incorrect so I could *learn* from it. Apparently I am one of the only people on the entire planet that feels this way. Most everyone else just says “whatever” when i (or someone else) mentions something like this to them.
rant sparked by happening upon this: 10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid
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