Grammar and Nitpicking

[jaydenrioblue]

After reading entries on different communities, I have decided I have had enough of the blatant disregard for the most simple grammatical conventions. My grammar education has been negligible, and I'll be the first to admit that I don't know everything and that I do make mistakes. However, over the past 13 or so years while I've been in

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[blasphemiliar]

You do not need a comma before the "and" in the above sentence.

Aaah, the Oxford comma. I'm a little bit iffy with this one since I tend to punctuate sentences so as to reflect the way I speak them; it's a left over habit from lit classes where I got sick of people reading with incorrect or obscure pauses. If someone decides to read out my writings then they have some sort of clue as to how they should be saying it, so that both of us do not sound like idiots.

Aside from that, I have an insatiable urge to murder people who type in lolspeak outside of icanhascheezburger.com. Stuff like:
dat lookz kewl whaddyu doin 2nite?

It takes 35% of the average daily intake of protein to be able to process the above sentence, and even more to be bothered typing it. Plus, if that style of language or indeed, any of the other grammar mishaps you've mentioned are used to compose, oh, a review to your favourite fan-fiction author for instance, he/she is likely to snark you to oblivion rather than reply with gratitude

[jaydenrioblue]

Ah, thank you! I shall continue with these included - they are definitely worthy!

[closetcase_99]

This should be posted on every website, I hate reading bad grammar, it makes me want to stab something haha.

[jaydenrioblue]

It's the blatant disregard for the simple grammatical conventions that get me. I never had any formal education, so the more pedantic mistakes pass by me, but the ones I have mentioned above just jump out at me.

Feel free to link people here if you ever feel the need (or if you think it may do them some good)!

[misterslick]

I love you for this. I also am a bit iffy about the "You do not need a comma before the "and" in the above sentence" thing.

I admit I get lazy with grammar, however, usually if it isn't all correct then the only thing that's wrong would be that I don't capitalise letters or put periods at the ends of sentences. Other than that, I'm usually good with following it.

Also, you make me feel stupid sometimes. xD

[jaydenrioblue]

I was never taught sentence structure so I find that on occasion my sentences are worded or punctuated clumsily. Due to this I'm a bit shy about correcting other people's gramamr just because I know that there's probably a few mistakes in everything I post that other people could pick up on.

Why do I make you feel stupid? I don't mean to!

[misterslick]

Haha, I mean that you always type so nicely and talk intelligently.

[jaydenrioblue]

Oh, well, thank you! Hahaha, I don't always talk intelligently. Apparently one can actually see a visible shift from 'normal' Jaye to 'academic' Jaye in my face. Apparently I smile a lot less when I'm being 'academic' Jaye - but I think that's just because I smile all the time when I'm not thinking hard about something!

How are you going? Are you on your Christmas break yet?

[megyal]

The other day I asked someone why she put her comma outside the sentences in speeches, like so:

"Put out the dog while you're at it", he said.

Nothing riles me up more than that. But apparently, that's how they do it in Finland. I'm tempted to call someone random in Finland and say, "Sir/Madame, is this how you're taught to do it?" because any time I see it, I don't even want to read what the person is writing. I just focus on that. And the worst part is, they don't treat the full-stop that way. The full-stop goes inside. I want equality in my speech, okay?

I could be wrong though. But I don't think so and I'm always unusually pissed off about it, and I'm the kind of person who'll let a 'your' in place of a 'you're' slide. Okay I won't let it slide for too long.