Literally

[Suu]

I am so guilty of accidental apostrophe injections. I try to catch them, but hey, it happens...that apostrophe key is so delightful.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I get annoyed when people seem to literally make no effort to try to make their written language make sense to the reader.

I also get annoyed by needless pedantry. SO FUCKING ANNOYED.

My best friend is a brilliant woman, highly articulate, an excellent and prolific writer, and is also a notoriously bad speller. Whatevs, man. We all know what she's trying to convey with her use of language, and the editor can sort out her spelling.

Also, this conversation reminds me of Pergamos getting annoyed with the various and sundry contextual definitions of the word "minority" and declaring that any that don't fit his pre-existing understanding of the word are just made-up jargon.

This is why the grammar nazi thing is almost as much fun as the ugly American thing.

Drives people batshit on facebook.

[Cramulus]

I am so guilty of accidental apostrophe injections. I try to catch them, but hey, it happens...that apostrophe key is so delightful.

it's cool, an apostrophe just means "here comes an s!"

[Suu]

I am so guilty of accidental apostrophe injections. I try to catch them, but hey, it happens...that apostrophe key is so delightful.

it's cool, an apostrophe just means "here comes an s!"

That brings me to another question.

Plural possessives or names that end in an -s. Do you add the extra -s after the apostrophe or don't? I don't, but I know that both are considered grammatically correct. It's just one of those things that I'm always mindful of since I was taught that in grade school.

For example, you have Cramulus' and Cramulus's. Both are said the same way and mean the same thing, but one has the convenience -s.

I'm just curious has to who does what.

[Faust]

'

[McGrupp]

I'm more guilty of abusing that tricky tricky comma. Also the semicolon, which I just pretend does not exist.

I think I'm okay at apostrophes but some of that is from the Strong Bad grammar songs:

http://nodivisions.com/music/songs/strongbad/   
I'm at work so don't know if the links play or not.

Ohhhhhhh {types while singing} If you want it to be possessive, it's just 'I-T-S.' But, if it's supposed to be a contraction then it's 'I-T-apostrophe-S,' {Short pause} scalawag.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I'm more guilty of abusing that tricky tricky comma. Also the semicolon, which I just pretend does not exist.

You are a bad person.

[McGrupp]

I'm more guilty of abusing that tricky tricky comma. Also the semicolon, which I just pretend does not exist.

You are a bad person.

To clarify, I'm not saying that semicolons shouldn't be in sentences. I'm saying they shouldn't be in my sentences. They should be in separate but equal sentences.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I'm more guilty of abusing that tricky tricky comma. Also the semicolon, which I just pretend does not exist.

You are a bad person.

To clarify, I'm not saying that semicolons shouldn't be in sentences. I'm saying they shouldn't be in my sentences. They should be in separate but equal sentences.

I think we should bus my semicolons into your sentences. 

[McGrupp]

I'm more guilty of abusing that tricky tricky comma. Also the semicolon, which I just pretend does not exist.

You are a bad person.

To clarify, I'm not saying that semicolons shouldn't be in sentences. I'm saying they shouldn't be in my sentences. They should be in separate but equal sentences.

I think we should bus my semicolons into your sentences. 

Social separation of commas and semicolons is a regional custom. The states should be left free to regulate their own social affairs.

[Giant(G)Land]

Personally I like to use dashes instead of semicolons-haven't had a problem yet.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I get annoyed when people seem to literally make no effort to try to make their written language make sense to the reader.

I also get annoyed by needless pedantry. SO FUCKING ANNOYED.

My best friend is a brilliant woman, highly articulate, an excellent and prolific writer, and is also a notoriously bad speller. Whatevs, man. We all know what she's trying to convey with her use of language, and the editor can sort out her spelling.

Also, this conversation reminds me of Pergamos getting annoyed with the various and sundry contextual definitions of the word "minority" and declaring that any that don't fit his pre-existing understanding of the word are just made-up jargon.

This is why the grammar nazi thing is almost as much fun as the ugly American thing.

Drives people batshit on facebook.

Oh, absolutely. 

[LMNO]

I wasn't really a used of semicolons until one of the past spags -- was it Badger somethingsomething? -- tried to go all Vonnegut on us; from then on, I used semicolons like a motherfucker.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I wasn't really a used of semicolons until one of the past spags -- was it Badger somethingsomething? -- tried to go all Vonnegut on us; from then on, I used semicolons like a motherfucker.

Was it Vonnegut or Clemmens?   

[LMNO]

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
-Kurt Vonnegut, A Man without a Country

Couldn't quickly find a quote attributed to Twain.