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Every time you put an apostrophe in the word 'its' when one shouldn't be there, it feels like a slap in the face. So please, for the love of my face, STOP IT.

If you're in doubt about whether or not there should be an apostrophe, just leave it out. I don't react nearly so poorly to the missing apostrophe, thanks to texting.

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For the love of God, TNT, it's "more movie, FEWER commercials", not "more movie, LESS commercials." Every time you say the latter, a grammar fairy somewhere falls down dead.

It bothers me, and probably a great deal more than it should, that, at least in my way of speaking, the words 'adolescence' and 'adolescents' are pronounced exactly the same.

Remember my post the other day about weeping over the English language as a result of Flair?

I just searched for grammar flair, and it has cured me. Thank the lord for people who know good grammar, are witty, and have enough free time to make their frustrations into bitchy, clever, scathing, gramatically correct, properly spelled flair.

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I just saw a flair of the line from Get Smart, "Holy shit, holy shit, the swordfish almost went through my head," with 'holy' spelled holly.

I understand typos, but since it was wrong both times, and wrong on more than one flair, it was clearly not a typo. It's a four letter word. It's a common word. How in the hell do you misspell holy?

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Please don't ask why, but I am really glad right now that I have such a good and extensive grasp of the English language.

It's my native tongue, and I love it.

I love all the eight parts of speech, all the definitions and connotations and idioms and weird spellings. It's a good language. I hate seeing it abused.

'CASTED' IS NOT A WORD.

Cast is already past tense. You don't need to add the "ed." No, you really don't. I promise.

You can say, "I got cast in the play." You can say, "they just cast a new actress to play Pansy Parkinson." But if you used the word "casted," I'm going to have to kill you.

Except for the random grammar errors, this was quite a fun quiz.

What Be Your Nerd Type?
Your Result: Drama Nerd

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1. Maybe it's just me, but I really don't see anything wrong with the word come. There's absolutely no reason to ever use 'cum' in place of it. No, really, there's not. ESPECIALLY if you're not talking about sex. If you write "I'm cumming over" or "cum and get it" I may have to kill you. If you use 'cum' in a sex scene, I'll be a little more ( Read more... )