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Originally Posted by als463
Things that irk me regarding grammar:
*Not knowing the difference between your and you're.
*Not knowing the difference between their, there, and they're.
*It's not conversate. It's converse.
*When someone tries to call someone else a moron while doing something completely moronic. An example: Your an idiot. *face palm*
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I second all those and I'll add another category: people who try to use a common expression and get it wrong. For example, "Wallah" for "Voila!" and phased for fazed. Or someone who waits with baited breath, not bated breath. And how about "this passed week"...gahh.
I think you can distinguish people who read lots of books from people who don't read at all by reading their Internet posts. If you're a reader, you are more familiar with good grammar and spelling than if you don't read at all.
There's a facebook page for the tiny town in Maine where I grew up called "You know your from Rumford Maine ,if" and that pretty much sums up what you'll read there. Not everyone who posts there is a total hick, though, there were a lot of jokes about how the 8th grade English teacher, who was a legendary and terrifying grammar tyrant, is probably spinning in her grave at the title of the page!