Sunday, February 3, 2008

How Not To Suck: Learn to Spell

Listen, this is perhaps the easiest by far task in learning not to suck. Spell things properly. Now this does have some stipulations. Mispelling a word every now and then is okay. A few typos. A yuo or a teh once in a while by accident is perfectly fine. Sometimes spelling bear instead of bare is alright too, everyone accidentally looks over when they spell check thier own shit, and microsoft word doesn't catch every little error. There is however a line that should be drawn when it comes to e-mails, text messages and instant messages.
I understand that people are hooked to text messaging. I'm not one of those people. I rarely ever do it, never on my own phone. When I do it's on a friends phone and I swear to you I still spell out every word. if they charged you by character I can totally see the justification for the abbreviation of every word but as is shortening everything just makes you look like an ass hole. Even if it seems to take time, you could save more time calling the person than standing around typing something with your fucking thumbs. Texts are justified when in clubs, libraries, restaurants, movie theatres.. but really sometimes I don't see why everyone needs to text everyone everything anyway. Enough of this tangent. I was saying..
I do not find the need for people to use letters or numbers as words in any situation unless in extreme hurry. I very seriously doubt that half the people I know who do this are always in a such a damn hurry that they feel the need to barrage me with u's 2's ur's ur'e's and rusrs??'s.
Sometimes I will take my very precious and valuable time and yell at the people I know who do this. Berate them and tell them that if they just fucking take the time to learn how to type it would be faster to type out the whole damn word and qiut assualting my senses ( my eyes ) with thier battering of the English Language.
Tonight however was something extremely special. Someone messaged me and told me that they saw the super bowl and that they were very happy that the Giants "one" I shit you not. He typed a fucking number! He didn't just do it once, he did it fucking three times. And only corrected himself the last time. I was too dumbfounded to be able to double take and say anything smart ass back I just sat in my chair dumbfounded. This is a mother fucking college graduate and he can't pick the right damn homonym to type when a foot ball team WINS a game? This isn't the first time this has happened either. He does this alot. I cannot stand talking to people who do this. Is it so hard to know the proper words to type? It IS your fluent language afterall. It's the one you wake up and speak in the morning. if they were from another country I could ignore it without issue, they don't know better.. but these people do... they fucking do!
They know better! And because they know better and refuse to stop acting like douche bags. THEY SUCK.

Here's your lesson today. Don't fucking suck. Learn how to spell!

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