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Comment by Nicholas Thomas Wright on October 5, 2009 at 6:27pm

I take great pains to write specifically what I want to say.
So when I see others who confuse half their audience by not caring if they've delivered what they want to say, it's incredibly annoying to me.

Comment by Garrett W. on July 13, 2009 at 11:13am

haha nice story. although i would argue that the men's interpretation is the more correct, meaning aside.

Comment by Sir Spiffy on July 13, 2009 at 10:20am

I have a story similar to Johannes'.

On the first day of class, the English professor wrote a sentence and told the class to put in the missing punctuation. Here's what the sentence said:

A woman without her man is nothing.

All the men in the class wrote this:

A woman, without her man, is nothing.

All the women in the class wrote this:

A woman: Without her, man is nothing.

Comment by 3Milya on July 13, 2009 at 5:59am

Shtanto, I agree with you. Even though I'm Finnish and I am sure that I make some mistakes too.

It's understandable if you're a foreigner talking another language, but it really annoys me if someone misuses their native language.
Overuse of abbreviations is also irritating when it makes reading and understanding of the language hard or even impossible.

Comment by Johannes S. on June 11, 2009 at 1:37pm

I'm going to tell you a story about grammar and how that may affect life and death.


(This is a loose translation of what my language teacher told us in class, a long time ago, so it MIGHT have some mistakes or grammar errors, talk about irony...)



Once upon a time, there was a king, who had his notes written for him.
He decided life and death. Literally.

His writer, though, didn't know where to put commas.

The king wanted the person to be killed, so he said: "Kill him, not keep him alive."

The writer, however, wrote "Kill him not, keep him alive."

So, the prisoner, who was to be executed, was then released and kept alive.

Comment by Shtanto on June 11, 2009 at 1:25pm

I wish we could fix mistakes on the forums and in blog posts.

Comment by Helen on May 18, 2009 at 1:05pm

My mother tongue is German, so I might not have such a good English grammar, but I started correcting my peers' grammar mistakes at the age of 3. :)

Comment by Miss Katherine. on May 6, 2009 at 7:19pm

I always kick myself when I spell something wrong lol.

Comment by AnGella on April 16, 2009 at 2:05pm

I can certainly relate!

Comment by SassySweetBren on March 17, 2009 at 2:04pm

LMAO....Mark, I just read what you wrote.

I am dying with laughter.

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