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[pmcd9]

I can explain why they type slash instead of using the punctuation. If they have an old style phone like I do the slash requires pushing the button 10 damn times.

[Carlos del Vaca]

How about the use of "however comma?" I can see it every once in a blue moon when you are trying to be particularly dramatic or foreboding when dropping a qualifier. But there's this one woman I know via work who I think is incapable of saying "however" without saying "however comma." She once said it four times in a presentation of about 30 minutes.

[AugustWest]

Wait wait wait. 
You're saying that she actually speaks the word "comma" after saying "however"?

No way.  I think that would be sufficient cause for a throat punching.

[Carlos del Vaca]

You're saying that she actually speaks the word "comma" after saying "however"?

That is precisely what I'm saying. And it's to the point where she either doesn't realize she's doing it, or maybe she actually thinks that's what you're supposed to say.

[wombat]

No way.  I think that would be sufficient cause for a throat punching.

Especially four times in half an hour.

[pmcd9]

I'm going to dinner with some friends tonight. I'm gonna see how many times I can get away with saying it before they tell me to stop.

[CortJstr]

We are adopting a puppy. His name is Samson. We're considering making his official name on the AKC paperwork "Samson Comma Brock"

[Carlos del Vaca]

So if I call people out, say on Twitter, for screamingly obvious grammar fouls (in this case "your" vs "you're," by responding with "What about my golden?"), am I a dick or performing a public service?

In the grand scheme of things, I think people who can't figure out "your" vs. "you're" deserve to be called out, so maybe they'll fuck*ng learn. On the other hand, I can see people going "Christ, what an asshole."

[CortJstr]

So if I call people out, say on Twitter, for screamingly obvious grammar fouls (in this case "your" vs "you're," by responding with "What about my golden?"), am I a dick or performing a public service?

In the grand scheme of things, I think people who can't figure out "your" vs. "you're" deserve to be called out, so maybe they'll fuck*ng learn. On the other hand, I can see people going "Christ, what an asshole."

I probably make most of my errors on FB and Twitter due to swipe-based typing where your/you're and I'll/ill are exactly the same input. I fix those when I notice but if I'm tweeting from my phone then I'm doing something and not looking at my feed at all which means I likely won't spot the error for hours.

I don't really get reading Twitter on a phone. The client never seems to be able to pull all the tweets since I last logged in only the last 200 or so and so many of the tweets are links I don't have time to follow/don't have a mobile site/have flash/etc.

[pmcd9]

You are actually doing a public service, but will be viewed as a dick.

[wombat]

Sorry, you're a dick. Public shaming is not a useful technique for teaching writing. Or anything, probably.

[miles]

Spelling stuff is cool here right?

I find I'm increasingly irritated by seeing "ya" in place of "yeah" in texts and stuff. I'm also a bit irritated at myself for being irritated by that.

I'm irritable these days.

[pmcd9]

Spelling stuff is cool here right?

I find I'm increasingly irritated by seeing "ya" in place of "yeah" in texts and stuff. I'm also a bit irritated at myself for being irritated by that.

I'm irritable these days.

Ya and Yeah have essentially the same meaning. I get irritable at people who use yeah when they mean yay!

[KeithHernandez]

Sometimes I get irritated with that and sometimes I do it.

[Choop]

there's a moron on one of my facebook groups who, when meaning "yum" in response to a photo of food, alwaysALWAYS types "ummm." this bothers me perhaps more than it should. strike that - far more than it should.