So I screwed up and loaded the previous post after midnight, which put it on Tuesday. I planned for Tuesdays to be album review days, so I'll start next week.
My rant today is about how bad individuals are about the whole your/you're grammatical thing. It astonishes me how often I see the possessive 'your' where the contraction 'you're' should be used. Especially on blogs and networking sites. It's not even as difficult as the there/their/they're issue because there are only two options instead of three. Don't believe me? Check out Facebook and look at comments to photos and wall posts. There will no doubt be at least two or three errors.
The worst offenders I see are those under age 20. My 15 y/o sister has bad grammar and is an awful speller. As bad as she is, her friends are worse. She goes to private school, too. Therefore, the lack of funding in public schools is not solely to blame. She wants to be a teacher. I told her I didn't want her teaching my kids.
It's no wonder the rest of the world hates the U.S. when this nation doesn't even have a rudimentary grasp of the national language. Probably because of writing and texting with abbreviations too much (see y/o above), being too rushed, and the crappy schools. God bless America!
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