Words Unspoken|Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten.

Ridiculous. Not rediculous. Why does that look right? Why do people think it’s red? I say it the way it’s spelled: rid-ic-u-lous. Don’t you?

Why do people take normal words and make them crazy just for fun? I just saw “laffed” and it cracked me up. But for a while, my sister typed “wif” constantly. WIF. Or wait, maybe it had two Fs, I’m not really sure. That’s not the point.

How is “dun” a word now? I admit, I’ll use “I dunno” when I’m being silly or something. I don’t like it, but I do sometimes anyway. Typing out “I don’t know” in an extremely casual conversation is strange to me. But when you say something like “I dun have one” do you even say that out loud to yourself as you type it? You sound like an idiot! Do you think it’s cute or something? I can’t figure it out. Not cute, not cute at all. Just stupid.

I have a lot of random thoughts to post. Maybe I’ll put it in a list, that’ll make it easier to sort through.

• I need to finish putting away the laundry and possibly do some tomorrow if I get the energy. I hate doing laundry. Ugh.
• While I hate laundry, I love tea. Yum!
• I’m farming for a demonic rune on my shaman while I boil eggs so that I can make a ring of bitter shadows for a friend of mine.
• Why am I using thottbot links instead of wowhead? Meh.
• I need to post up a picture on Unwritten for today. I can’t get out of the habit already! Sheesh!
• I have some fantastic friends. One of them said something to me today that I don’t think I’ll ever forget.
• Woohoo, got my rune, made my friend’s ring, and mailed it off. And made a new friend in the process!
• Boiled eggs are done, can’t wait to eat them tomorrow.
• I need to fix a few things on the site. Badly. First of all, I need to fix up my 101 things list to match the colour scheme now. It looks like a mess!
• I need a comment reply plugin of some sort. Anyone have any recommendations? I don’t like not replying to comments but it’s such a pain to that I don’t. I think this makes me a bad blogger.
• I have other plugins and widgets that I need to install, but they’re so complicated… *whine*
• Lose is spelled L-O-S-E. L-O-O-S-E is loose, the opposite of tight. Kinda like the screws in your head if you think you can loose a battleground match.
• Alright, off to play a game with Matt. I like spending time with him! ♥

Anyway, if you have any suggestions for the new theme or the site in general toss them my way! Definitely room for improvement here, I’m sure!

I’m sure you’re all very excited. What can I say? I’ve got a lot of pet peeves. Notice the way “a lot” is two different words? That’s the whole reason for this rant!

Okay, listen up.

Exhibit A:

a lot - adverb
To a very great degree or extent; “I feel a lot better”; “we enjoyed ourselves very much”; “she was very much interested”; “this would help a great deal”

a lot
Very many, a large number; also, very much. For example, A lot of people think the economy is declining, or Sad movies always made her cry a lot. It is sometimes put as a whole lot for greater emphasis, as in I learned a whole lot in his class. It may also emphasize a comparative indication of amount, as in We need a whole lot more pizza to feed everyone, or Mary had a lot less nerve than I expected. [Colloquial; early 1800s]

These two definitions came from here.

Exhibit B:

al·lot- verb
1. To divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion: to allot the available farmland among the settlers.
2. To appropriate for a special purpose: to allot money for a park.
3. To assign as a portion; set apart; dedicate.

This definition came from here.

Now, please explain why people think “alot” is a word. I have seen this, literally, 100 times in the past week. It’s everywhere! Alot, in all its “I’m not really a word” glory, is taking over the world!

Save me from this non-word, please. Save yourselves! Stop using it immediately!

If I were to look online at some of the adults currently wandering around the internet, I would guess that they didn’t pass their fifth-grade grammar classes. I don’t see what’s so hard about basic concepts. I really don’t.

Run-on sentences are bad news, people. Use punctuation. Punctuation is your friend.

Well, punctuation is your friend, unless you haven’t figured where to put that stray semicolon. News flash: they don’t just fit in wherever you feel like putting them. Don’t even think of using them in doubles. Use one when necessary and fitting, while saving the other for another time.

Oh! Were you aware of the fact
that writing this way makes
people stop at the end of each line?
This looks absolutely
awful, so please
stop
doing it. Now.

Last in this rant, but certainly not the last rant I have in my head, please learn the difference between there and their. It actually hurts my brain to comprehend your sentences when you’ve got random words just tossed about. Look it up if you’re confused. Heck, ask me if you’re unsure!

And with that, I do believe this is enough grammar snobbishness for one night. I should be sleeping, once my sinuses clear up enough for me to breathe.