Even though my mom and I live in different states, we have a fun little game that keeps us in touch and laughing on a regular basis. The concept is pretty simple: see a spelling or grammar mistake, take a photo, send it and giggle about it over the phone. I know that some people simply aren’t good with grammar, but for those of us who (weirdly) really enjoy using it properly, mistakes are hard to miss. Now, I’m certainly not saying that I don’t make grammatical errors (my own mother recently called to poke fun at my status update that had a mistake) but some are just too big to overlook!
I will definitely be sending this post to my mother. I know it will brighten up her Monday like it did mine! Head on over to the source to see even more mistakes. [via Buzzfeed]
Which of these mistakes is the worst?











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ROFL. Ho’ made apple butter is so much kinkier than granny made apple butter. I here them hoes’ be using cinnamon.
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LMAO,“Thank you for severing our country.” Oh… *facepalm*
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yep, I’m the one going crazy reading all this crap. Fb statuses make me crazy… people just say they don’t have time to fix it from their phones. I can’t handle it!
to, two, too.
their, there, they’re
your, you’re
and believe it or not – our and are…. are you serious? I know a few people who use are for our.
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lol all others will be toad
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@xXrEMmUsXx@xanga - or saying “would of” instead of “would have”
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@galadrielspitcher@xanga - ooo, i’ve been correcting myself there lately! I do not have perfect grammar, but once I’m correctly its much easier to fix the things I hadn’t realized were wrong.
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@xXrEMmUsXx@xanga - yes…once you notice it, it’s hard to forget!
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@galadrielspitcher@xanga - corrected* haha, I am the queen of typos though!
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@xXrEMmUsXx@xanga - haha…oh I make lots of typos, especially while texting. Sometimes my fingers move too fast and miss the letters
dahlia / 2382 posts
You should do a post with those teabagger signs. Those are hilarious & just backup the southern/midwest stereotypes. I know not everyone in those areas are ignorant because I have friends in those areas but those signs make me laugh & cringe at the same time! XD
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“All others will be toad” hahahah omg that is too funny.
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Man, I don’t want no apple butter made by no “Ho”s.
“its” and “it’s” I see pretty commonly, as well as “farther” and “further”.
daisy / 603 posts
ALL of these are terrible.
I shouldn’t have even opened this, it makes me cringe.
hydrangea / 58 posts
I have a really hard time with its and it’s. The rule just doesn’t stick with me. Other than that, grammar is one of the first things I will notice about a text, story, article, etc. If it has a lot of “typos” that aren’t really typos but simple grammar mistakes that could have been caught and fixed in editing or it has a general lack of editing at all, I won’t bother with reading/responding to it unless it is crucial. Some of the best storylines have been ruined by poor grammar. I also hate it when people use multiple verb-tenses in an article or story. Pick one. Either it happened already, is presently happening, or hasn’t happened yet . . .it cannot be all three.
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i should do this! hahaha…
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@RebekahNewsom@twitter - *Like, *every
@Shinbi_Belldandy@xanga - is
*That moment you belittle others for mistakes, but forget to proofread your own comment. (assuming you’d have been able to spot your own mistakes…)
hydrangea / 58 posts
@Under_the_Ghillie@xanga - The first one is their spelling, not a grammar mistake. Looks more like a typo, really, which happens. You can correct someone’s grammar without being perfect because typos happen to most people. Not knowing which version of a word to use isn’t excusable past elementary school.
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@deadroseawaiting -
Typos happen, yes.
Proofreading is the solution to that.
My point stands, as my accusation wasn’t regarding the type of error they made, but rather that they made errors while…
Oh, nevermind. I shouldn’t have to explain this.
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@RebekahNewsom@twitter - @xXrEMmUsXx@xanga - @galadrielspitcher@xanga - Oh gosh, what about people that say stuff like “I’m going to go
and
do that right now,” or I’m going to go
and
get it right now.” I mean you could technically argue that that is correct if you wanted to say that you were going to do two separate things (“I’m going ‘to go’ and then after that I am going ‘to get’ it right now.”), but that is never how people use it. >_<
hydrangea / 58 posts
@Under_the_Ghillie@xanga - And you could be less snide about how superior you think you are. Usually the annoying grammar mistakes are still made though the writers “proofread” because a general lack of knowledge or caring where as typos are just an unintentional spelling error, which are two different types of errors. Spelling is spelling and the best writer in the world grammatically could be a horrible speller. That was my point.
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@deadroseawaiting - Pardon me?
I made a teasing little comment, that didn’t even remotely involve you, and to which you ascribed the incorrect intonation. Additionally, you “corrected” me errantly, as your response had no relevance to what I’d said, or how I’d said it. I made it plain that they’d not proofread their statements, and I found it humorous that they were either mocking or complaining about people who’d made mistakes themselves, in light of their own errors.
If you think that my amazement that you couldn’t understand this is my being snide, then so be it.
And, for the record, I don’t think I’m superior. I know it. People like you confirm it every day.
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If the “severing our country” one was deliberate, it’s quite clever.
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Hope, Arizona. Blink and you’ll miss it! I live 100 miles northwest of there.
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No Class’es? LOL I surely hope that wasn’t an English teacher haha.
There is a yard sale sign I drive by all summer (the family uses the same sign all summer, every year). It reads “Yard Sale To Day”. Seriously. Everytime I drive by I want stop and destroy it LOL. That kind of thing annoys me so much. I started reading a book once and had to stop when a single page contained 8 (EIGHT!!!) grammatical errors and typos. I couldn’t believe a published book could be that bad! What do editors get paid for?!?!?! It completely ruined the book for me and I couldn’t finish it.
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My favorite is when people write “your so stupid” or “your an idiot”
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Wow these are bad! It looks like none of the writers of these signs got past the 2nd grade!
hydrangea / 58 posts
@Under_the_Ghillie@xanga - This escalated far too quickly. I could say something back like “you’re no more superior to me than the dirt on the bottom of my shoes” but that would be stooping to your level.
Once again, my point was that spelling errors and grammatical errors are two different things, so while the irony was there to you . . .it was slightly off to someone reading it.