That's me to a tee. A always miss them, mostly because I post from an iPad or iPhone and its a pain to use apostrophes on mobile devices.
I used to work at a market research firm and story goes our largest client signed a ten year multi-million dollar contract with us because the our competitor made a grammatical error in their presentation. I don't recall what the mistake was, but it was something along the lines do "there" versus "their". Of course a presentation of that magnitude is much different than dicking around on the Internet.
It's also "aforethought" in terms thinking about using the term while using it, instead of "forethought", which is simply looking toward the future. Anyhow, we all make grammatical mistakes. I'm just having fun before watching Brian Norris slum it on Under the Dome.
Forethought - : a thinking or planning out in advance : That's exactly the definition meant in my statement. Not that I don't often screw up in similar fashion. I mainly started this thread as a means to display the rap video.
Yeah, that's pretty understandable and definitely basic shit you have to get right or communication may break down. But make a presentation and you don't follow a comma rule or use the past perfect instead of the simple past in the dependant clause... yeah no one is going to care.
I got an email (god knows why) promoting engaging "father's" in family life. I sent them a reply that it should be "fathers" and please take me off your email list. I see signs in stores with words spelled incorrectly or apostrophe used for plural. Even in newspapers. I just reviewed a document where someone wrote "Mobil [a company] phase" when they needed to write "Mobile [an adjective] phase". Shit, does anyone proofread anymore or do they just think Word will do it for them?
I blame the teachers for the death of grammar and spelling, and you just proved it. What really pisses me off is "Who not That." I even considered making that one of my screen names when I posted on ESPN. I would have changed to that name whenever I corrected all the Who not Thats. ...the players who played tonight...YES! ...the players that played tonight...AAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH
And let us not forget the confusion of "you and I" vs "you and me" and "he and she" vs "him and her". I was listening to a speaker the other day and he got "you and I"/"you and me" wrong every single time. I forget what he was talking about. Isn't English a wonderful language?
A good way to figure out if you should say "I" or "me" is delete the other person from the sentence and try it. Sometimes that makes it clearer. I was glad to see Cher refuse an invitation to perform at the Sochi Olympics and loved her statement but this? Cher, darling, did "people hated I in the early days"?
