I find it fairly easy to ignore most of the spelling and grammatical mistakes on the internet and even make some myself. The kid that used to deliberately make a mistake when kids stood up and spelled words until the last one in the class was left standing so he could sit down is now having trouble with spelling. Time does take its toll.
The one thing that really annoys me has already been mentioned in JVStatin's post. "Gifted" as used by many today' "I was gifted" or "I gifted" just raises my hackles no matter how much I try to let it pass on by. "Gifted" to describe someone with special talent is still fine but not to replace give, given, or gave.
"AWESOME " has seen its day . It has been so over-used by folks having but one adjective in their vocabulary .
Adding "SO MUCH " to a simple "Thank You " .
"Gifted" used as a past participle or past tense of the verb to give .
"Werkes" .
( The list goes on ...... )
"Gift" as any sort of a verb is out. Same with "Author" as a verb. No-one "authors" a book - they WRITE it, fergoshsakes!
Then there is this piece of defeatism coming from the UK. Never give up, I tell ya!!
Also, I disagree with the convention of putting the quote mark after the period, if the quoted part is just a clause, phrase or word in the sentence, and not the whole sentence itself, as with dialogue.
Agreed. This is called "Logical Punctuation", and is an outgrowth of programming.
I usually "pour grammer", by the bucketful. 
Linear Mode
