Re: What grammatical errors really piss you off?
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incorrect usage of apostrophe's.
i bet the average person who [censored] this up has an iq 15 points lower, on average, than a person who knows the language.
if i see someone write "book's", i am probably dealing with an idiot.
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That's because in other languages, such as dutch, the apastrophe is often correct there. Same thing with punctuation: different languages have different rules about where to place a comma.
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Yeah, you really have to be careful who you judge and subsequently make fun of someone in this regard, for they could easily respond, "Oh, i'm sorry, I just learned english 2 weeks ago, and it's so hard keeping track of 8 languages. How many do you know?"
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