When my husband would write letters to me--old school, I know-- from his travels in South Africa, I would take the same coloured pen and correct his spelling mistakes. My mother and I would also shake our heads when an email was sent from my sister with a wide array of errors. Needless to say after much prodding, her updates have become much more grammatically pleasing.
However, I am not perfect. Unfortunately, in this day and age of the world wide web, people have decided that spelling and other forms of punctuation are not needed. I have become consistently exposed to this terrible disaster, and if I didn't have a good book on hand, I'd probably succumb to such an atrocity.
I blame MSN. For those of you unfamiliar, it was like an online texting site where you could chat with friends before people had cell phones. I could credit MSN with helping me type faster than any keyboarding class would have, but grammar went out the window.
Years ago, when I was ready to make my own private email and sign up for MSN, I came up with gottaluvashley. Terrible, I know. Even now, spell check has underlined the word as misspelled. Might I remind you that this was the start of people using incorrect spelling on purpose to make words fun.
You can laugh with me, especially if you used these words at one point or another.
For example:
kewl
luv
seksy
babee
I remember chatting back and forth with a boy or two who happened to be my crush, only to misunderstand almost everything he said because his typing was atrocious!
i wanto go movinag.
What? You're moving?
no movie
You don't have any movies?
i wanto go to teh movies
Oh. I see. You want to go see a movie?
wannacom
Which one?
princces dairyes
Dairy Princess?
no princess dairies
Oh, Princess Diaries? Sure! I love chick flicks!
Okay, okay. So I never went to see the Princess Diaries at the movies with my crush, but you get the point. There happened to be a lot of confusion in my teenage life.
Sadly, this is not just the choice grammar of the male species. Females have fallen under the same spell.
I almost wanted to die reading this crap. Well, and because of the stupidity of the writer.
Next...
I just love this one.
You remember the time when Rachael Ray cooked her family and her dog? This picture was obviously before the event occurred.
Obviously, the quote "Kill yourself" was not mine. I don't hold that kind of hate. However, I really must laugh at the permanence of the tattoo. People really need to check their spelling and grammar before marking themselves.
Amen, sister!
Now I understand the occasional mistakes and problems people have. If you've been extremely picky and want to fault me, you would probably find a couple things wrong with my grammar and syntax. Feel free to point them out! I have no problem correcting things, as I want my blog to be perfect in every sense (Insert laugh here).
Here is one last picture to finish them off. Thanks, Snoopy!
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