is this a lesson?

[smolderingheart]

I have to say this at complete random but people who spell stationery (as in paper) as stationary (which means not moving, standing, fixed and so forth) make me really wonder about education in America. Along with this is that certain people actually believe that alot is one word, well for the record it is not - nor has it ever been. In fact it is

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[veuve_norie]

Nope, I completely agree with you. Lazy grammar is one of those things that gets to me, too. [IE: your vs. you're, uggh.] It's just... I don't know, maybe I'm a big word nerd or something but english is one of those things you can look up when you're confused, yeah? There are set rules for these little things and I thought we all learned them in second grade. No excuses! Read a book, internet-population.

[but, uh, I also couldn't math-anything my way out of a paper bag if it involved something more difficult than the up-to-12-times-tables, so. Damn brains.]

[kajungirl81]

I admit to not knowing the stationary/stationery one, but I don't think either are words that get used very often, especially paper 'stationery'. So, maybe that's a big part of the reason.

But there are tons of words that I see frequently misspelled on LJ that there is just no reason for. I can sort of understand people not knowing the difference between then/than because that's not something I learned until middle school. And I can understand people misspelling separate as 'seperate' because that's another one that didn't get cleared up in my head until middle school. But really, I think people should know 'a lot', 'definitely' (that one bugs the crap out of me & I can't even remember the way it's constantly screwed up), 'your' vs. 'you're', 'its' vs. 'it's', and it really goes on and on

[_starkiss]

Bad grammar is my pet peeve. That's why I couldn't stand talking to people on MSN.