I get billegerent about it too Sabrina, so don't feel badly. It is a huge, gigantic trigger for me to hear (speech) or to read (say in a commercial) improper grammar, punctuation and spelling. You would not believe how often I hear this crap in commercials. Uggg. It does drive me nuts. I'm really, really bad about correcting people's grammar. I know its very annoying to the other person, but if I don't say something, the wrong way they said it will run through my head over and over, sometimes for days. The way I figure, if I were saying something that wrong, I would want someone to correct me. Of course, I live in the South, so proper grammar is not a high priority.
Blah, mostly I'm in a *****y mood and something got me going earlier about this. Thank you all for listening to me rant.
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"School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?" Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451 p 55-56
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