How the tiniest of efforts can stop me judging you as inferior and/or murdering you
Here are some grammatical pet peeves of mine. Anyone who makes these kinds of mistakes, I automatically judge to be inferior.
- then/than
- your/you’re
- alot
- less/fewer
- “would of” and variations of it (could of, should of etc)
- there/they’re/their
I’m not a “grammar nazi” or anything. I rarely mention peoples mistakes to them. But is it so hard to learn the difference between mass nouns and count nouns? It’s such a minor thing to learn to get these words right. I mean, these are things people always get wrong. There is no reason not to get it right… Just to show how tolerant and loving I am, here are some things that don’t bother me in the slightest
- split infinitves
- greengrocer’s apostrophes
- ending sentences with prepositions
- starting sentences with “and” or “but” etc
- missing capital letters
- spelling mistakes in general, unless they interfere with my understanding of the sentence
So really, I’m a pretty liberal guy and we would probably get along great. But don’t you ever forget that “a lot” is two words, or I shall hunt you down and kill you in your sleep.
