Postby Capellini » Wed Dec 24, 2008 10:58 am
My accidental misuse of homonyms comes from a general disinterest in going back and fixing it when it happens. I'm not generally concerned with the maintenance of perfect grammar in this community, so I pretty much just don't think about it. If the right words come out, yippy. If the wrong words come out, boo fuckin' hoo. If I notice an error and give enough of a crap to fix it, I do. Otherwise, I don't.
The fact that anyone has the free time to notice and make a stink about it makes me sad for their apparently empty lives.
Oh, and I never mess up 'they're' with anything else, its just the occasional swapping of 'their' and 'there'. Although I do have a mental block against remembering 'its' and 'it's', I can only remember the difference for about a week before I have to look it up again. Something about it is just completely counter-intuitive to me.
I also type very very fast, which contributes to the problem. And don't generally proof read, and definitely don't go back after a significant period of time to edit things, ESPECIALLY if its just a little grammatical error.
As for the rather insulting idea that you are actually going to 'teach me a lesson'? Get real.
It would make me very proud to see this thread die, because it would mean that people here have more important lives than I suspect they do, but that would be quite a surprise. So in lieu of that, I hope that you're all very happy in a world where someone else's disinterest in grammar is what keeps you motivated to live. I actually have to go do stuff that matters.
True terror lies in the futility of human existence.
Malcolm Reynolds is my co-pilot.
"The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." - John Stuart Mill
