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.

Does anyone else feel terribly irked when a person uses “O” “C” or “Y” as a replacement for a word? I, for some reason, use “K” instead of “okay” but I also say it as “‘kay” so it doesn’t bother me as much. But “o i c” makes my skin crawl. Type the extra three letters and make yourself look like an intelligent human being. Please? Thank you.

Found in a group on Facebook:

there even on kid’s in disney world! sweet jesus, what is this world coming to?

They do have one thing right - their question. What is this world coming to?

After my last post about punctuation, I was kindly informed by a friend that the space is actually grammatically correct in some places. Now that I know that, I feel much better about it. It still strikes me as odd, but only in the way that customs from other countries (or areas of countries) often do. Thanks for that information!

Now on to my newest rant, the ampersand. Why do people feel the need to double it? Do they realize that by typing “I went to the mall && bought a new shirt && pants,” that they’re actually typing “I went to the mall and and bought a new shirt and and pants? I know they probably don’t realize it, since if they knew what it meant, they’d use it correctly, but how did this start? Why did this start? And why is it continuing?

And on the same note, usually at the ends of those sentences, I see a semicolon or two. Who told the teens that a semicolon was a proper replacement for the period or the exclamation point?

Where are the teachers? I don’t get it. I learned a lot growing up; I thought other people did as well. Guess I was wrong.

By the way, I don’t think I’ll ever get the hang of these Canadian spellings of words. I have a Canadian English Dictionary extension for Firefox and all of these corrections it’s throwing at me baffle me. I leave some alone and change some, but it’s driving me nuts!

Found today in the on-demand movie listing:

A young writer comes to L.A. during the Great Depression, and while spending his last nickle on a cup of coffee meets a fiery Mexican girl who both infuriates and intrigues him.

Comma issues aside, the fact that nickel is spelled wrong makes my head spin.

Two unsuccessful meat salesman are put in an unsavory position; cook up a foolproof plan to move meat, or wind up on the chopping block.

Two salesman. Two man. Two…

I can’t figure out how they did that.