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    Stephanie

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    I am a proud grammar nazi 2 weeks, 6 days ago

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    Matt Hall

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    I've been searching the internet for Fowler quotes, How did I not know about this guy before. Snarky comments about language to show preferred use. He's my new hero.

    A Dictionary of Modern English Usage on Wikipedia


    3 weeks ago

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    Jared

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    There really is a proper way to utilize semicolons. I wouldn't lie to you. 3 weeks, 4 days ago

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    Michelle

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    i will use good grammar if i am writing a paper or a letter to someone i dont know. blogs, comments, texts, emails to friends. . . look forward to no punctuation besides periods or commas. no capital letters, no indentation--in fact no paragraphs of any kind. if you are my friend you will overlook this quirk. that is all. strangers, i will punctuate for you. 2 months, 3 weeks ago

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    Brian Gregory

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    christy

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    I just heard a commercial on NY news for a new James Patterson book. Their review?

    "It's un-put-downable!"

    Don't even know where to start. [cringing]1 month ago

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    Emily Blakemore

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    I can't stand it when people can't figure out when to use forms of 'me' and when to use 'I'.

    Example: Dan and I's new house is great!

    Yes, people actually do this. Biggest CRINGE 1 month ago

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    Brian Gregory

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    Dear Grammar Nazis,

    Please stop it. 3 months ago

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    Matt Hall

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    To, Two and Too explained:

    To–think of toward

    Two–2

    Too–also

    99% of use can be summed up with these statements. It's not difficult. 1 month ago

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    Alicia

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    The your instead of you're mistake makes me freak out. ><
    They're or their and there, as well. 2 months ago

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    Jessyka Dalton

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    theoatmeal.com2 months, 1 week ago

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    Katheryn Kirk

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    I was a member on a forum for a long time. There was one thread that was a huge wall of text. It was probably under twenty sentences long, but the first sentence (I never got past that, because I could barely read it) was supposed to be six sentences. 2 months, 1 week ago

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    Lizzie

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    You're does not equal Your and they cannot be interchanged. FYI. 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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    Doug Coleman

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    Grammar is all relative, man. It's like this; if you get paid to write (unless it's an alternative mewspaper, mag or something with more "stylized" writing) you should use good grammar. In my humble opinion, you should try to use good grammar anyway.

    We do have a right to expect good grammar from larger publications and blogs, government agencies, schools, etc.. If you write for one of them, the Grammar Nazis keep you on your toes and you'll either get to know them and be friendly or live to crush them. If you are merely writing for your own blog, a friend's blog, or commenting on 4chan, grammar might be less important to you, so don't sweat the G-Nazi.

    Twitter grammar...forgetta 'bout it.

    If you rag people on Twitter about their grammar then you my friend, are a Grammar Nazi. If you spend very much time at all worrying about other people's grammar, you may miss out on what that person is trying to say. We all look different, we all act different and we all write different from each other...deal with it. 2 months, 4 weeks ago

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    Cindy Gregory

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    And to think...I always thought being an English teacher would be fun. 3 months ago

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    Vee

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    I keep correcting my English teacher on her grammar. Who else thinks this is a bit ironic? 3 months ago

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    Christopher D. Jacobson

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    "Could care less"

    Does anybody else get all riled up when somebody says, "I could care less"? Oh, so you COULD care a little less about the subject? What will it take for you to reach an absolute zero on your care meter?

    "I couldn't care less" means that you care SO LITTLE about something that you couldn't POSSIBLY care any less about it. 4 months, 2 weeks ago

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    Ariel Gummer

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    Wouldn't "Grammar Fascists" be more accurate than "Grammar Nazis"? 3 months ago

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    Christy

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    The one that really REALLY irks me is when people misuse 'your' and 'you're'. It's not thaaat hard to figure out, people.

    "Your the best."
    Really? So it's my 'the best'? That makes no sense.
    "You're mom."
    Hm.. What? I am mom? No, no actually. I am not.

    Come on folks, step it up. You're smarter than your grammar mistakes, I'm sure. :) 3 months ago

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    Kristina Rogers

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    And now... for the apostrophically challenged:

    theoatmeal.com3 months, 1 week ago

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    Kata

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    I really get annoyed when ppl on public forums attack someone over bad english, some stupid spelling or grammar errors that didn't make you either misunderstand or "not" understand at all what the person was trying to say. Because English in fact is very commonly second language for internet users. We use it only so we could communicate with larger number of people and not so that they could call us stupid even though they are the ones who can't even imagine the possibility of someone actually being bilingual?!
    Also, attacking someone for mistaking "than" for "then" or "bad" for "bed" or even "they" for "day" when some of those ppl are using internet to learn language in the first place, and all they can read are ROFL's, and DIAF's, and NIFOC's is simply hypocrisy. 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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    Allie

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    Biggest grammar pet peeve: "Could OF." Weirdest grammar mistake I've seen: Swapping "in light of" for "in lieu of" or vice versa. 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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    Colin Goodwin

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    Actual excerpt from an email received from an employee;
    "Weather anyone realizes it are not I'm work one day of the weekend every week (Sunday's), and I have not complained about it."
    My head a-splode. 6 months, 1 week ago

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    Ariel

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    Does it get under anyone else's skin when people incorrectly spell the word "definitely"? Or, if they abbreviate it to "def"? I find it gets under my skin more and more because it's not a hard word to spell. I think people are just too lazy to sound it out. 3 months, 3 weeks ago

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    Sarah Griffiths

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    Is it difficult to spell WEIRD correctly?

    Also, the whole there/they're/their thing really bugs me. I HAVE to correct my friends if they get it wrong. 4 months, 2 weeks ago

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    X-Evolutionist

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    Wadda we got.

    Too many criminal invesigation shows start with somebody saying this.

    Aarg.

    X 4 months, 1 week ago

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    Chloe Tisdale

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    Knot two staunch ewe, butt your to won't too complement you're righting. 4 months, 1 week ago

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    Charity

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    nerrrrds 4 months, 1 week ago

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    Eric

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    For years I've scolded people who write something akin to "I will revenge you." I would explain how 'revenge' is a noun and the verb they're looking for is 'avenge'. Well recently I corrected someone online who bothered to look it up on dictionary.com...and found that 'revenge' really can be used as a noun. My world no longer makes sense. I have no choice but to pretend to have never read that definition. 4 months, 2 weeks ago

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    mytacism
    n. excessive use of the letter M

    My Madeline! my Madeline!
    Mark my melodious midnight moans,
    Much may my melting music mean,
    My modulated monotones.

    My mandolin’s mild minstrelsy,
    My mental music magazine,
    My mouth, my mind, my memory,
    Must mingling murmur “Madeline.”

    Muster ‘mid midnight masquerade,
    Mark Moorish maidens, matrons’ mien;
    ‘Mongst Murcia’s most majestic maids,
    Match me my matchless Madeline.

    Mankind’s malevolence may make
    Much melancholy musing mine;
    Many my motives may mistake,
    My modest merits much malign.

    My Madeline’s most mirthful mood
    Much mollifies my mind’s machine;
    My mournfulness’s magnitude
    Melts–make me merry, Madeline!

    Match-making ma’s may machinate,
    Manoeuvring misses me misween;
    Mere money may make many mate,
    My magic motto’s “Madeline.”

    Melt, most mellifluous melody,
    ‘Midst Murcia’s misty mounts marine;
    Meet me ‘mid moonlight–marry me,
    Madonna mia! My Madeline!

    – Walter Parke, “A Mellifluous Madrigal,” Ballou’s Monthly Magazine, January 1888
    5 months ago

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