Why is everything a controversy now
Grammar. Seriously? That's the new topic?
Look, I am a grammar snob. I look a word up to make sure I have its spelling right even if I can spell it phonetically close enough to get the meaning across, because I value proper spelling. I go back and edit posts if I forgot an apostrophe or a comma or something. I had perfect 100's in every single english course I took from 7th grade onward, including college. The lowest I've had a paper graded was 93%. I was cheering in my head for every single line of "Word Crimes". I am far more dedicated to this stuff than someone not majoring in english should be. I don't correct other people, and I don't look down on people for grammatical errors, but i do get very annoyed when people write like this without any capitalization and dont use apostrophes and all that and it just reads like an incoherent rambling run on sentence and i have less respect for people that use literal for emphasis or say other stupid things of similar fashion. I have my position in this debate, I am firm in it, and you will never catch me writing like that, even on twitter; I'd rather break it into multiple tweets than post something saying "had 2 rn 2 get fud" to fit it into one tweet. I am as firm about this as it can get for myself.
But here's the kicker:
This is not some great crusade or some vital topic. It's grammar. On an internet forum. Centered around a children's toy. It is not worth long diatribes that even an english professor would consider obsessively defending proper writing. For that matter, why are people defending "improper", for lack of a better term, writing, like they've been dealt a personal insult? Is it really so hard to just go "This person thinks X about Z. I think Y about Z. Ultimately, Z is a pretty insignificant thing." and just ignore it instead of turning around and defending your use of "your" instead of "you're"?
If people have an opinion on the subject that you disagree with, why do you care so much? Nobody's going to report you for saying 10,000 spoons is ironic, and they're certainly not going to report you for using an oxford comma. Are you all really wound so tight that this sets you off? Maybe I'm missing some context that happened in one of the forums or something similar, but it just reeks of a community where everyone is at each other's throats if people are so ready to get mad about something this insignificant.
Chill the heck out. This is not something worth fussing so much over.
All that said though, i dO MakE An ExCEptiON WiTh PeopLE ThAT tYPe lIKe tHiS. That sort of typing genuinely gives me a very unpleasant headache, and as such I disregard anything you have to say if you type like that, because if you're addressing me specifically yet are typing in a fashion that causes me physical pain - and one that has to be done intentionally - then I really don't think I should concern myself with what you have to say.
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