Grrrrrrammar!

[ravan]

Gaaah! Where's my spork?

Grammar, spelling, and the proper use of the apostrophe are pretty easy to do when you can go back and edit what you wrote. Why in the hell can't people learn to use these tools correctly?

it's == contraction of "it is"
its == possessive of "it"
they're == contraction of "they are"
their == possessive of "them"
there == a place, opposite of here
(plus many, many, more...)

Hell, LJ even has a spelling checker for postings.

Why are people so damned illiterate?

Comments

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, when I'm tired, I swap in homonyms, and am not sure why my brain does it. You know, right for write, to/too/two, etc. But I am horrified when I see them later. (I also sometimes type "and" for "an" and "one" for "on." But that's a typing thing..."

But my personal horror word seems to be internet-based. At least, I seem to see it only on the net: "noone." It took my a while, when I first saw it (about 1989) to figure out that they meant "no one." If I see it, my mind automatically translates it to something forsoothly, rather like "noon" but drawn out, with a vaguely Scots accent!