One of my biggest pet peeves is when people use improper grammar. Maybe I’m being stuck up, but where the hell did these people go to school, and how did they pass their classes? Grammar was drilled into our heads in school…so how do people just not get it?! Here are some examples of recent grammar mistakes I’ve seen on Facebook and in text messages:
“I’m so soar from the gym.”
“Did you decide weather or not you want to go?"
“Did you decide weather or not you want to go?"
“I’m so excited for are dinner date!”
“I really need to talk to there manager."
When I receive messages like this, my first reaction is to correct them, and/or call them out on it. Somebody’s got to teach them since their teachers were obviously incapable. It’s sad that this is what our public school system has come to. The more I think about the issue, I start to wonder how it came to be. I then realize that social media, the one thing I so dearly love and support, is one of the biggest culprits. Just think about Twitter for example…there is absolutely NOTHING grammatically correct about tweets. People don’t care about spelling, commas, or punctuation marks when they’re tweeting, especially considering you only have 140 characters to get your point across. Why would you bother typing the word “for” when you can type “4," or the phrase “talk to you later” when all you have to type are four easy letters: "ttyl". When it comes down to it, it is extremely hypocritical of me to bash those who don’t make grammar a priority, considering I do it myself everyday at work. So I guess from here on out I will just have to suck it up and deal with the fact that my line of work is one of the main reasons kids today don’t know the difference between “are”, “our”, and “r”. Sigh…
“I really need to talk to there manager."
When I receive messages like this, my first reaction is to correct them, and/or call them out on it. Somebody’s got to teach them since their teachers were obviously incapable. It’s sad that this is what our public school system has come to. The more I think about the issue, I start to wonder how it came to be. I then realize that social media, the one thing I so dearly love and support, is one of the biggest culprits. Just think about Twitter for example…there is absolutely NOTHING grammatically correct about tweets. People don’t care about spelling, commas, or punctuation marks when they’re tweeting, especially considering you only have 140 characters to get your point across. Why would you bother typing the word “for” when you can type “4," or the phrase “talk to you later” when all you have to type are four easy letters: "ttyl". When it comes down to it, it is extremely hypocritical of me to bash those who don’t make grammar a priority, considering I do it myself everyday at work. So I guess from here on out I will just have to suck it up and deal with the fact that my line of work is one of the main reasons kids today don’t know the difference between “are”, “our”, and “r”. Sigh…
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