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Old 12-30-2006, 01:23 PM   #1
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Default The Grammar Nazi Thread

You know who you are. Step forward. Is it an illness or just a higher sense of perfection when it comes to the simple mastery of one's language.

Me... well, probably bordering on illness.

Any of you want to confess how much of a grammar fiend you are? And what gets you most?

Things that just bug me...

- When people replace words with ones that are phonetically similar, but wrong. "I was out in the rain two long and now I am a little horse."
- Gratuitous use of apostrophe's where they dont belong, and vice versa.
- Forums that R up 2 ur i-ballz in chatspeak and l33t 5p33k.

... you get the idea.

I am a particularly bad one though, since I can't resist taking pictures of bad spelling and grammar that I see in public. Here are a few.

Trust these people to handle flammable liquids?



For camping or misdemeanors?



OK, this sign is funny on many levels, but there is the wayward apostrophe.
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