"When asking someone about their biggest annoyances in life, you might expect responses like “hunger,” “being poor,” or “getting shot.” If you ask a white person, the most common response will likely be “people who use ‘their’ when they mean ‘there.’ Maybe comma splices, I’m not sure but it’s definitely one of the two...
...Though they reserve the harshest judgment for professional, do not assume that white people will cast a blind eye to your grammar mistakes in email and official documents. They will judge you and make a general assessment about your intelligence after the first infraction."
Grammar. It's not a big deal; I hardly ever talk about it, nor did I know what an Oxford comma was until I wikipedia'd it and realized that it truly was a problem that I had considered before.
My own brand of slamming on grammatical errors comes in the form of apostrophes and spelling mistakes that should have been corrected ages ago. These mistakes are usually revealed casually, while g-chatting or from say.... album titles on Facebook.
For all intents and purposes, when one is posting photos online, please be aware that it could be acceptable to call them pics or pix but pic's, a bright flashing red light goes off in my brain. What is pic is? What is the possessive of pic?
I don't mean to judge, but subconsciously the level of respek (yeah respeK) that one previously might have had was just dropped slightly when I discovered such a glaring misprint. Stuff White People Like was totally right, I didn't mean to, but I did judge and make an assessment of intelligence based on this one error. Oops! I promise to reform my ways if you promise to think before you place your apostrophes please!
Occasionally, I see someone spell weird - wierd, but I assume that it's simply because they're typing in a hurry and simply typed too quickly and was too lazy to correct their error. Just seeing the wierd misspelled irks me. Eeck! I prefer to believe in carelessness than to even consider that someone who is beyond the age of 20 misspells weird.
Other than apostrophes and common misspellings, other basic peeves include:
their, they're and there,
affect vs. effect,
making plurals out of things that don't have plurals in a non-ironic way (sheeps),
slightly strange abbreviations of words that don't make logical sense that force me to think about what you're typing for more than a split second (frds),
[Did you just think about that one for a second? Yeah. See.]
and last but not least, people who spell grammar, grammer.
Boo.
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