Ok guys, here's the deal. I'm not going to beat around the bush anymore. We all have pet peeves, right? Of course we do. There is something, or a few things that bug the piss out of each of us...well mine just happens to be blatantly improper spelling and grammar. IT'S NOT THAT HARD PEOPLE! if you are past grade 5, then you should know how to spell! It's only a MAJOR part of life! Now, i'm not talking about putting a comma in the wrong spot, or typing so fast you miss a letter, that's an obvious physical error, not a mental one. But seriously, if you made it past grade school, somehow made it through high school, are in college, or are 45 years old and have a family, there is NO reason why you can't figure out that just because a word ends with the letter 'S', doesn't mean it needs a fucking apostrophe! I can't begin to express how frustrating it is when i see people use apostrophes where they don't belong...it seriously makes me want to take the person responsible and bludgeon them with my keyboard.
Case in point; Alibi's sports bar on the corner of Howard and #3 in windsor....the sign (which is horrifically designed might i add), says "Alibi's SPORT'S bar". Sport's? Seriously?! since when is there a god damn apostrophe in Sports?! It looks ridiculous, and you think that someone, ANYONE would have noticed it and said "Umm, hey....did a 3rd grader do that?" The BEST part though, is there's like 3 signs, all the same....So NOWHERE down the line, from the owner of the bar, to the designer of the sign, to the sign maker, to the guys INSTALLING the sign, did ANYONE proof read this thing! It passed through at least 3 sets of hands, and NO ONE bothered to say "Hmmmm, this looks fuckin weird". Seriously!! HOW DOES A PERSON SURVIVE IN LIFE WITHOUT HAVING BASIC FUCKING GRAMMAR SKILLS!!?
I can't begin to explain my frustration with this phenomenon. It kills me. Everywhere i look, is complete improper spelling. I blame the teachers. Seriously. I blame teachers in elementary school who are either too stupid or too lazy to correct a child when they make a mistake. I also blame the teachers in high school....i remember them vividly, the ones who would make us do reading out loud, but when a kid would stutter on a word, they wouldn't lift a god damn finger to help them....so the kid would be reading a word like, say, 'proposition', and instead he would say "preportion", and the teacher wouldn't correct him. This wasn't an isolated incident, ALL the teachers did it....So now you've got a kid who, A- can't even fucking read at the age of 18 (way to go grade school, he totally deserved that diploma), and B - now thinks that 'preportion' is a real word, and will most likely attempt to use it in a sentence later in life...ie/ "Bill i have a preportion for you, that you can't turn down"....Needless to say, this guy will most likely end up at Burger King.
Here's the deal. If you have a real, documented, legitimate mental issue, then by all means, spell any way you want. Fuck, wear a helmet and dip your oreos in tuna for all i care, more power to you. But if you just were too lazy, or too careless to learn how to properly spell even the most basic of words, then you deserve the ridicule you will get in life. Guys, they have Spell Checker on computers now, they have grammar checkers...there is software that lets you speak into your computer and it types for you...there is no excuse why you can't stumble your way through a sentence without making a completely stupid mistake.
For those of you who need a hands on guide to the 'really hard' areas of spealling, here you go:
there, their, they're - THESE ARE ALL DIFFERENT WORDS, WITH DIFFERENT MEANINGS. FUCKING LEARN WHICH ONE IS WHICH ALREADY!
your, you're - these also mean 2 different things. YOU'RE means YOU ARE. it's just a shorter form of it....YOUR refers to posession. As in 'YOUR BALL' not 'YOUR STUPID'. get it?
know, no - if i have to explain this to you, you're dumber than i thought.
Through, threw - please stop telling people you through out your arm. It's the wrong word, assface.
Bottom line guys, it's not that hard. In the vast internet-based world we live in, information is literally seconds away. There is NO reason why you should be making blatant and horrible spelling mistakes, unless you seriously like looking like an idiot, seriously don't give a shit, or seriously have a mental illness. (depression doesn't count, sorry emo kids).
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