Tuesday, April 29, 2008

I am a grammar snob

It's one of my biggest peeves: people who use incorrect grammar in emails. (God help me if I screw the grammar in this post!) I'm talking about the ones that people do EVERY DAMN DAY. The comma splice usually throws me for the biggest loop, grammatically speaking. This is our common, shared language, and most of my friends, it appears, are illiterate.

Then there's there:



But I think my biggest pet peeve of all is apostrophe abuse. Thanks to Bad Repp for linking this from her site:

Apostrophe Abuse

It's a plural, people, not a possessive.

(Spell checker was used for this post.)

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