I have very few pet peeves. I'm generally pretty laidback and there aren't many things that bother me, but one of the things that I hate the most is when people don't understand simple concepts of the english language.
Don't get me wrong, parts of it are fucking complicated! Whom... who... who cares?! But there are a few relatively easy rules that drive me absolutely insane when people break them. The one grammatical error that really angers and perplexes me, is the struggle some people face in YOUR and YOU'RE. I don't understand what could be that difficult about it.
YOUR denotes ownership. YOU'RE is a contraction for YOU ARE.
See? Simple!
The age of facebook chat and texting has helped me to uncover the fact that I have a lot of grammatically incorrect friends.
Text message convo:
ME: hey thanks for giving me that info.
ANON: your welcome.
Really? MY welcome? Ok. I've always wanted one of those.
me and my welcome
Facebook chat conversation
ANON: She seems great
ME: yea, I'm really lucky.
ANON: so your happy?
Yes? My happy? What about him?
He loves balloons? He was the all-around gymnastics champion at the Atlanta Olympics? Has walked on the moon? graduated as the valedictorian from harvard?
I know all about my happy.
My absolute favorite is the age old insulting text: "your stupid."
What is a stupid?
Ahhh. Thats a stupid.
Unfortunately no, I am not currently in possession of one of those. So no,
YOU'RE STUPID.
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