I'm seventeen. I started attending school at the age of five. I've been attending school for
twelve of my seventeen years of life. I'd go into how much I hate that, but that's an entirely
different post altogether. Anyway, my point is, people my age (or even roughly my age) and some
who are a few years older have either completed school, or attended school for at least a
decade. They've had the same ideas, concepts and methods crammed down their throats for that
length of time, with slight modification or expansion on said ideas, concepts and methods. We've
all been taught the same, simple things, year in and year out, for over a decade.
If this is true, then why are there still tartmunching assholes in my peer group who have no
grasp of grammar?
I mean it, it's fucking ridiculous. How many times does a person have to be told "apostrophes
show contractions or personal possession, ie 'That's cool', or 'Heather's computer'"? I mean,
for the last time, not every word that ends in 's' needs an apostrophe. "Are you still
reading those book's?", "Reality TV show's are stupid", "I should be shot in the face by several
rifle-weilding maniac's". We learned this in grade two, children. We learned this in grade two.
Of course, that's not all there is when it comes to shitty grammar. I also hate a) people who
refuse to ever use capital letters in anything they write/type (more specifically type), and
b) people who refuse to use proper punctuation when it's needed, or tartmunchers who don't know
how to use proper punctuation. Examples:
"hey hows it going, i need to be kicked in the face really bad"
That's a combination of the two. There's nothing more irritating than a person who intentionally
sets out to "defy the world" by having shitty grammar.
Then, of course, there are the idiots who actually don't know how to use proper punctuation. You
get things like "I hate flowers; I hate trees". No. A semicolon ( ; ) takes the place of words
like "however" and separates two independent* clauses while relating them closer than would a
period; it doesn't just get thrown in at any arbitrary spot to make you look cool, educated or
poetic. At least, it shouldn't.
Of course, while you have the semicolon-misusers, you also have the exclamation-mark-question-mark
misusers. "ISNT THAT COOL!!??". No, no it isn't cool. Why the hell would any kind of logic
dictate that in this sort of case (one of question and exclamation) the exclamation point would
come before the question mark? If it did, wouldn't the sentence that the punctuation applied to
be said in a single-toned shout, end abruptly, and then somehow magically pick up with the intonation
of a question? "?!" just makes so much more sense. You're asking a question, but the QUESTION is
punctuated by the MANNER in which it is said. Remember that and save me a headache, asshole.
There are so many other aspects to bad grammar I could go over, but it pisses me off to no end
to think of the knobs out there who just don't get it.
In closing: What the fuck did your parents spend all the goddamn money for, sending your tart ass
to school for so many years, for you to fuck off in class, smoke weed with your idiot friends and
try to make a 'statement' by being a total know-nothing jackass? Exactly. Nothing. Way to take up
time, space and skin, you waste of sperm.
*Yes, it's spelled with an 'e', not an 'a'. Just like 'definitely' is not the same as 'definitly',
'definatly', 'definately' or any other retarded spelling you might dream up.
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