Bad Grammar Makes Me [sic]

I was reading something online that reminded me of one of my biggest pet peeves in the world. What I was reading was written by a person (no names) who has a legit website, books and on top of that is university educated. One should expect no less than proper grammar, right.

So I’m reading… and I come across the dreaded grammar faux pas: “Your in. You are now ready to… blah blah blah” Though forgetting the apostrophe, the “r” and the “e” could be hard to forget, I’m really hoping that this was just a typo.

Now I am guilty of grammar faux pas, no doubt about that. There, however, are some things that just are uncalled for. I am talking to you 13 year olds (+/- 3 years)! You should see the way these fools talk on Bro’s facebook and msn… I swear it’s like another language. My biggest thing is the Your/You’re confusion. Honestly if you’re going to use words you aren’t sure of, don’t use them at all! If you can’t handle wrapping your mind around the simple usage of contractions in such a basic word, don’t bother. Gosh!

I can’t count the amount of times where I read people using “your” incorrectly.

“omg your so gay wtf…….”
“rotflmaoooo, your to jokez!!!!”
“wtffff????? your so dum”

Oh.em.gee. I see this junk all over the Facebook and the MSN in people’s names and sometimes in the way they talk to me. This really grinds my gears. There are five things from up there that really get me:

1.       Overusing punctuations
Okay, I get it something is really funny! Or Okay, I get it something is really confusing.

2.       No commas or periods to separate a thought
I’m no mind reader, nor can I hear you speaking through msn or facebook. Separate your thoughts, please! It’s just really confusing and it makes you sound like an idiot.

3.       Enough with the acronyms!
Seriously. These are becoming kind of ridiculous. For example: ROTFLMAO. See, at least with LOL you can be laughing out loud (though not always…) but with ROTFLMAO, who really does that? Who’s going to roll on the floor laughing their ass off? Seriously.

4.       Changing the spelling of a word, though not for convenience but just because it’s, I don’t know, how the “cool kids” talk
Why? You are butchering the English language, gosh! A real ugly example: cool turned into “kewl”. Also, dropping G’s without replacing it with an apostrophe.

5.       Confusing two, too, and to
Similar to the beef with the incorrect uses of “your”

So I should say, as a disclaimer I suppose, that I’m no expert in grammar or the english language by any means. But I mean these things I’m talking about are so basic that if you manage to mess these things up you must be some kind of idiot.

This is how the fools speak. Bish Please!