I have decent
grammar.
Recently I’ve
been addicted to this website called “Facebook Fails.” Ninety percent of the
cite is people saying like “Your dumb” and someone writing the subsequently
witty reply of “*your” as though they alone are the guardians against poor
grammar on the internet. I would like to point out the fact that these people
are neither intelligent nor unique. In a
way, they are as stupid as the original poster in that they think anyone on the
internet actually give a damn about what they say.
I have decent
grammar and for that I am proud. Notice that I don’t brag about my impeccable
grammar or my supreme skill with sentence structure. I’m an English major, I
know better than anyone else that the language used by people is a constantly
changing organism. I’m not going to let my students get away with writing “this
book were good” in their essays, but I also have more valuable things to do with my life and time than tracking
people down on Facebook for using the wrong form of their.
I guess what I’m really proud of isn’t that I
have proficient grammatical skills, but that I don’t let lesser grammar
annoyances bother me. Besides which, I
would be the pot calling the kettle black considering that I have atrocious
spelling.
Atrocious.
Challenge to
my Readers:
The next time
someone on Facebook writes incorrectly in a post or someone text “hey, R U
ready?” resist the urge to punch them in the throat and move on. You will be
surprised at how much easier your life is if you let stupid people be stupid
and you don’t sink to their level.
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