05 November 2008

Please!

If you are going to have a blog.
A blog in which you have a lot of writing.
Learn to spell and use grammar correctly!

Their
possession by a person or persons.

There
location

They're
they are

Weather
if it's hot or cold

Whether
to introduce two alternatives

Your
posession by a person, usu. one you are speaking to

You're
you are

I saw SO many errors on a girl's page today.

My first thought was,
"Oh, it's alright, English is probably her second language."

Except I was wrong.

She was English speaking.
From Australia.

WA in fact.

We are not a third world country.
We have a good schooling system.

You have no excuse.



*end rage*

10 comments:

Kez said...

Haha that pisses me off too...except I know when I'm tired I can be guilty of it!!!
The thing I hate most is unnecessary apostrophes.
And seeing professional signage that is incorrect. I would NOT pay a signwriter who couldn't even correct my spelling or even query it!!!!!!

GirlonTour said...

Ooh hope it wasn't me? I usually am a spelling and grammar nazi as well! I even hate text speak too :)

Dru!!! said...

Hah, ok, I will forgive you just this once

paper-doll said...

i always try to avoid using the words that i can't interchange correctly.

Te said...

I agree. I agree, I agree, I agree. What I find the most annoying is people who type 'his' instead of 'he's'...ARGHHHHHHHHHH

Another to add to your list might be: It's = abbreviation of "it is" and Its = possessive of "it".

sparkleandglitter said...

As an English graduate, I salute you! There are few things that annoy me more than the butchery of the English language by people who really should know better!

Te said...

Oh, and you realise now that if you make one tiny little grammatical mistake the whole world will pounce on you! ;)

...love Maegan said...

totally 100% with you on this one ...silent rage :)

Blogette said...

I'm more of a picture gal myself ;)

Doug P. Baker said...

I'm so with you, but as Te said, you are now the target if you make even one little mistake like forgetting the appostrophe on the word "girl's" in this post.

With texting lingo making its way into our spoken language now, the road is only into worse and worse spelling in the future. Ugh!