Posted: 5/2/2008 6:51:24 PM EDT
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There - Their - They're (place - possessive - they are) Two - To - Too (number - towards - also) More to come at a later time. (Okay, I'm well on my way to being drunk. Disregard if you want.) |
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I know it is the "internetz" and all, but it annoys the Hell out of me when people don't use commas, apostrophes, capitalization, correct grammar, not to mention words that actually exist. Example: "im goin shootin c u l8r" Seriously, if you cannot spare the few extra seconds it takes to type out a coherent thought, you are obviously too busy to spending time online at all. 
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That one and "prolly" are the ones that chap my ass. If you're too fucking lazy to type the word "probably" then you PROBABLY don't need to be saying anything to begin with. People like that should be put in a camp somewhere. Yeah. I said it. 
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I am trying to "text" a message so it is a pain in the ass to completely type out what I would like to communicate to you in the most articulate way that I can possibly compose. u r teh sux0r! ETA: kmgsa, two! |
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I forbid this! Well maybe it was already forbidden. Nah, it was forbade. Hell I don't know. I'm not that astute to all that fancy english. I think I'll go to the store and buy two beers and one can of snuff too. It drives me crazy for someone to say, " You wanna come with?"...With who? For whom? |
Y, wuts it 2 u?  edit, cause i suck at quotes |
Maybe it is y'all, ya think? Yeah, prolly.
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"to try and....." Example: "He needs to try and work with these people." WRONG! One always tries to. You can not try and anything. Or in the above example you are trying and you are also working, but not trying to work. I hear news commentators make this mistake all the time. |
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My pet peave is "I am wanting to buy a...." its "I want to buy....". I don't know why but the use of said in a sentence,as in "if you buy said truck...". Everyone thinks they're smart by using it. Oh,just thought of another one.Using "Ya" instead of "Yeah". Ya rhymes with duh,yeah is slang for yes. |
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The internet was the beginning of the death of the English language, but text messaging will be the final nail in the coffin. My sister in law, a 22 year old high school graduate currently serving aboard a US warship, is nearly illiterate. Ever form of written communication from her is nearly unintelligible, containing text message shorthand and that fucking abomination, leet speak. It took me some time to do it, but I've finally gotten her habituated to actually typing words out and using letters rather than numbers when she sends emails. In the real world, how you speak carries a great deal of weight in how others percieve you, and online, how you type does the same. If someone's incapable of coherently expressing a thought on a page or in a post, my immediate reaction is to wonder about their intelligence and if they've perhaps been kicked in the head by a horse. Common abbreviations (gettin' goin' and the like) are acceptable in informal communications provided they are properly punctuated. Using leet speak and other butcheries of the language are the written equivalent to mumbling incoherently. And a comma is NEVER, under any circumstance, an acceptable substitution for an apostrophe, nor is the reverse acceptable. If you can't clearly communicate in your native language, kindly still your tongue and sit on your hands until you've mastered 2nd grade communication skills. |
This sounds like Yoda.  <Yoda> Try? There is no try. There is only do. Or not Do. </Yoda> I saw this on a web sight inhabited by illiterates: "For all intensive purposes." 
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