My pet peeve is people who graduate from high school not knowing how to write and spell standard English.

Worst example of this I ever saw was on a Tshirt at JC Penney. They had a stack of "novelty" T's for young men. One of them said, and I quote:

"I'm out of bed and dressed -- what more do you WAN'T?"

Nobody knows how to use an apostrophe anymore!! Nobody knows the difference between its and it's or to and too. I regularly had kids in my journalism classes who spelled what should have been "aisle" as "isle." (Uh...one's a lane and one's an island...small diff, no?)

Discourtesy is the parents' fault, but illiteracy is the teachers'! That's why people who know how to communicate are going to rule the world soon.

/rant, and sorry you had to go through all that!

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