I am by no means trying to sound pretentious, but I just need to address a few avoidable errors that bother me immensely: 1. SupposeBly. Really, I don't get it. It's not shorter or easier to say supposebly instead of supposedly, so why do people do it? It's the wrong pronunciation, and there's no reason why somebody should repeatedly do this; especially since it's only one letter off. 2. Conversating. No, no, no! Damn it. I hear this one on a daily basis, and it genuinely bothers me every time. I guess I can kind of understand why somebody would form that word, but it's not a real word. I honestly appreciate somebody 100 times more when they actually use the word conversing. It's refreshing to hear the proper term used every once in awhile. 3. When people add "ical" to words unnecessarily. For example: Dramatical. Therapeutical.
Damn it, Flavor Flav! Look at what you've done! 4. When people say they need to "itch" themselves. Itching is the problem. Scratching is the solution. I don't get the logic in that. Does it sound cooler to itch an itch rather than to scratch an itch? I don't know. I'll never understand this one. 5. When people don't believe in punctuation. i honestly dont think i would be okay with myself if i typed like this all the time because punctuation is something that we learned in grade school and really what kind of message would i be sending out if i completely ignored the basic rules of writing i think i would look a little uneducated Ahhhh. Just reading that back to myself makes me cringe. I've literally had to stop reading some otherwise intelligently thought-out blogs because every paragraph was just one giant sentence. That really gets frustrating after awhile. I would rather see over punctuation than none at all. 6. The whole your, then, and to thing. Obviously, everybody has their typos and minor slip-ups every now and then; but I'm talking about when somebody exclusively uses one version of each every single time. I can't tell you how perturbed I become when I see, "I don't know why you like him more then me. Your going to regret this, and he will to." Okay, that's a lame example sentence, but you know what I mean. Somebody actually wrote, "You're mom!" to me once. As you can imagine, I was more amused than offended. Haha. 7. When (it seems) people try to look illiterate on purpose. "Sry, dey axed me to go to da store." I don't even know how to imitate it properly. I guess it's kind of the cool thing to do in middle school or something, but we all have to start writing like adults eventually. Personally, I never thought it was cool to write like I didn't know the English language. Writing is a required skill, and I don't think anybody should settle for not being able to do it properly; especially in adulthood. I'm definitely not trying to say that my writing skills are perfect, or that I'm better than anyone else. I have to think for a few minutes before I can spell necessary, and sometimes I forget to use whom when it's needed. I'm not talking about little punctuation mistakes or minor grammatical errors. I'm talking about seemingly purposeful errors that don't need to be committed. There's no reason why somebody should look or sound unintelligent when they're not. That's all. =] | 
