Count me in! I'm forever correcting teachers on that one. I also enjoyed Bryson's Mother Tongue.

I'm a bit picky about language as well. Do like a good swear though and I tell ya what 80% of the forkin guys on this rig cannot spell properly.  

I can but just choose to use words like yer and ya as that's just how I speak normally.  . So their.

“Amateur grammar snobs are a lot like amateur gynecologists--they're everywhere, they're all to eager to offer their services, and they're anything but gentle.”

“Grammar snobs are a distinct breed from their gentle cousins: word nerds and grammar geeks. The difference is bloodlust.”

June Casagrande, Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite.

Having posted that, I am one of the people I've just taken the piss out of.

My current hate is the (non)word "alot" which people seem to think means "many" and my longest standing "makes me want to kill someone" (non)word is "scuse" which apparently is a substitute for excuse me.  My retort is generally "off."    If they can't be bothered to say the complete phrase excuse me why should I knock myself out by using the entire phrase "fuck off!"

generally ive become a lot more relaxed about things such as poor speling and grammer but what really rips my knitting is when you get confronted with a whole load of text and theirs no punctuation or structure to it all and it becomes impossible to decipher the number of people who revel in using the written langwidge as a weapon and it fails to do what its supposed to do which is convey some kind of intelligent thought process and ideas instead its just a meaningless jumble of words and it all becomes too much to take in when all thats required is to spend a short time contemplating what you want to say and how to make it easy to understand

The worst abusers of the language are those who ought to know better, but use it as a weapon in an attempt to enhance their own 'superiority'.  

You know the ones, the pretentious tossers who are unable to express themselves properly and have such an over-inflated sense of self importance that they constantly feel the need to impress with an apparently limitless grasp of all that is new and shiny. It's then perpetuated by a never ending spiral of one-upmanship caused by the need for all of these idiots not to look 'stupid' by saying something like "I'm sorry I don't understand that, would you mind explaining for me"


This ridiculous state of affairs leads to us mortals having to put up with such idiocies as:

 "We must downdial our expectations and readjust the flightpath"
or
  "Upscale blue-sky thinking"
or
   "Get all our ducks in a row before the five year olds wake up"
or
    "Facilitate the necessary conditions to ensure that the team are enabled to participate in the appropriate up-skilling process for the new suite of tasks that will be presented to them" 

Yeah, it's a good set of words to keep handy!

Umm, I think you'll find it's Whisky

Why haven't you jarred him on fucking MartinT? Eh,eh,eh

Bloody grammar nazis.....