Please direct your attention to this.

So I've found some pretty great examples of "Whaaaaa?" grammar and spelling in the last few days, all of which will make good posts, but require my taking the time and effort to type them. During the midst of bar study, that is time and effort I do not currently have. So I would like, instead, to direct your attention to this blog post for a guest-type lecture, if you will. I think you'll agree that Allie has hit the nail on the head.

And as a sneak preview to make sure you actually do check out the blog post, may I present . . .



. . . the Alot. (Image taken from hyperboleandahalf. I claim no credit for its awesomeness.)

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Sphere o' tears

I've been seeing this a lot lately from a lot of different people—so much so, in fact, that I'm a bit curious as to the reason behind its sudden prevalence. But that's beside the point for the moment.

Please note:

Ball: (n) a sphere; (v) to make something into a spherical shape.
Bawl: (v) to cry profusely.

Therefore, you bawled through the movie. If you say "I balled through the movie," I'm going to have to assume that you either misspelled it or were rolling snickerdoodles the whole time.

And if the latter is the case, where are my cookies?

Am I allowed to speak aloud?

So, I was scrolling through Facebook status updates today and I saw the following sentence:

"It shouldnt be aloud to be cold without snow!"

I mean, what? Um, ok. Well that's just.... you know, I just don't even KNOW... ergh gah pfft BOOM!

*my head a-splode*



(It's also made worse by the fact that "shouldn't" lacks a necessary apostrophe. *Groan*)

Wow.

Oh. I am so sad. I lost it. I shall try to replicate it from memory.

I can't. It was a truly amazing feat not only of poor grammar, punctuation, and spelling, but also a truly delicious example of textspeak. "your" instead of "you're," and, my favorite, "unckle."

I regret that my internet closed before I could copy and paste. Sorry to all the fans out there!

Misspellers of the world, untie!

This cartoon was not written by any member of this blog, but it says so many things I've been wanting to say.

Enjoy, and keep an eye out for more comics to come!

Shortening our life expectancy?

"not much idk im doin fine how bout you"

*Groaning and writhing* Must... control... Fist. Of. Death.....

It has come to my attention that the youth of today are speaking a completely different language than English. I am of course referring to that evil monster that is TEXT SPEAK. Apparently, people nowadays (usually teenagers and college students) feel like they lack the time and space to send a proper message, so acronyms and abbreviations abound in every message sent. Do they think they're going to die within the next five minutes so they have to send their message as quickly as possible? It's like they think they won't make it to 50, and they're shortening their own life expectancy by rushing things.

You know, I gotta give youngsters some credit. I am honestly amazed at how they keep everything straight: it's almost like Morse Code. Here are some examples. Let's see how many you can get:

idk
lmbo
rotfl
lol (I HATE this one! Just say ha ha!)
imo
cpub
4COL
aysos
2gtbt
wtf/ wtc
2mor
831
aitr
aweso
NRN
swmbo
kfy

These are for real and true text abbreviations. Or "abbrevs," as I like to call them. Granted, I had to look most of them up, not being fluent in txt-speak, but hey.

This is "definately" a problem.

*Ahem*

For the last dang time, "definitely" is most DEFINITELY NOT spelled with an a! I don't know where the a comes from, because it's not pronounced "deffiNATlee" or "deffiNATElee," right? Or does everybody pronounce it wrong too? And if that's the case, then the problem is bigger than I had feared.

*A question for my fellow bloggers and any other good grammar and spelling advocates out there: do you see certain words misspelled or misused so often by the general public that you almost (ALMOST) forget the correct way to spell or use a word? I am ashamed to admit it, but just the other day, I almost used "you're" when I was supposed to use "your." Luckily, I caught it before it became too late. *whew!* (And isn't it usually the other way around? People using "your" instead of "you're?" Like, "YOUR so funny," or "YOUR welcome..." Heh, I guess it's gotten to the point where I've seen such constant bad grammar that my mind just doesn't know the difference anymore and will occasionally automatically pick the wrong word or the wrong spelling. Oh, the horror!!!!)

I raise my glass to good grammar and spelling. They are a dying breed.

And Spelling, too!

I realize that this is a blog primarily for grammar, but it seems to me that people capable of, well, typing, should know some spelling:

"that is adorrible"

I mean, what is that? Adorable? Horrible?
Because those seem like pretty crucial conjunctions...