This. That particular misspelling both drives me nuts and makes me feel all smug. ^_^ It’s only ever used by grammar trolls who don’t know what they’re doing…
Actually, I’m most disturbed by the abuse of the equal sign.
don’t you mean = you mean that?
This is not correct. An equals sign means that both sides represent the same quantity. Here, we have no quantities, and more simply, each side is not the same. This is equal sign abuse, and it happens all the time.
actually, they do mean the same thing, but the person was showing that the OP said it wrong. even if it is wrong, stfu and get a life. but first, calm down with a cup of hot cocoa and watch friends
is everyone going to say the same thing? “don’t you mean replies?”
also i noticed that everyone was trying to make themselves look just a little smarter than the last person to comment. i bet everyone used word speller with everything they wrote! haha!!
How is Vicki pathetic? This crap drives me crazy. Makes me wish Facebook had a great big red pen app so I could through and correct this kind of atrocious spelling, English teacher style. Seriously, what is wrong with the letter E that it must be replaced by the number 3? It doesn’t make you look cool, I promise.
Allison is right. Nothing screams “I’m an illiterate dropout” like horrible spelling and grammar on FB. I don’t expect AP style perfection, but some of the stuff I’ve seen can barely be read. It just makes people look, well, literally STUPID. And if you have Firefox, it has spell check built in.
My daughter and I were talking about this a few nights ago. The whole “your – you’re, their – there – they’re” common mistakes. Tommorrow vs. Tomarrow. Am I just too anal? Or are all these other people just too stupid?
I don’t mind “ur” and “ty” and abbreviations and stuff, it’s the “3′s” instead of “e’s” that bother me a lot. That and when people say “good” instead of “well”, on or off facebook, it’s probably my biggest pet peeve.
I’m assuming he means Vicki is pathetic because: a. She was annoyingly correcting that person’s grammar when he (she? idk) obviously didn’t care, b. Because she made grammar mistakes herself, and c. Most importantly because she submitted this whole thing herself.
I don’t understand why people think it’s okay to forget everything they know about the English language because “it’s Facebook” or a text. I hate the whole “it’s not an essay” argument, it just doesn’t work for me. While I will use colloquialisms and catch myself leaving dangling prepositions in speech (which still make me squirm when I catch myself), why can’t we always write like “it’s an essay” and show one another enough respect to make ourselves understandable!
The great mystery: Why do people still think they sound smart pointing out spelling errors and shorthand slang on the internet? It’s such a lazy, cheap comeback.
And it’s about as productive as trying to vacuum sand off the beach.
“well there’s your problem right there, “i think not”, what are you doing thinking? and if thoughts are products of the mind and being human we all have minds then your thoughts are no great then anyone elses. silly thinker stay off the web.”
Hilarity… Pointing out grammatical errors on the internet, or anywhere for that matter, is highly amusing. I believe intelligence to be a great weapon, and those who are too lazy, or stupid, to use correct grammar deserved to be ridiculed. That is all.
I think what we have here is just one of the odd grammatical quirks of English. Mostly likely, she did probably mean “Do you not mean…?” and for all intensive purposes people then to move the “not” to the more popular contraction of “don’t” even though it completely changes the word order of the sentence and becomes confusing if read as it is written/said (as in, “Do not you mean…?” as you have pointed out).
Man, English is such a weird language but I feel most languages have quirks similar to this.
Well, as long as people are being grammar nazis, and I’m an English teacher, the correct phrase is “for all intents and purposes.” Not “intensive purposes.”
Wow… so much time of my life learning basic English, and then I discover that most of the people (including even English and Americans themselves) don’t give a damn about it.
This world is fantastic, there’s always something surprising to discover. =D
Yes, sadly I have come across two people from France (or claimed to be) who typed perfect English. Afterward they said “Sorry if my English is bad,” to which I said “You don’t even know dude.”
Yeah, the grammar Nazi did not even notice that grammar was spelled incorrectly, and changing “dont you mean” to “Dont You Mean” is not correct capitalization either. If she were really trying to be a smart *ss, she would have said, “Don’t you mean ‘capital’?”
BTW, I’m good with grammar, but I try not to call people out on it, except in cases where the people are being jerks and pointing out other people’s errors. Or unless it’s really, really funny.
I think the focus was on spelling rather than grammar. I can understand that. I am bad with grammar but I cannot stand people who spell with numbers. Or the trend currently of spelling without vowels. Seriously makes my brain hurt.
Or “speelliiing wiith mooree voooweels thaan neeedeed”. Actually this trend seems way more common with my fellow native Spanish speakers; it looks equally as retarded, if not more so. Drives me nuts!
Thank God other people with intelligence exist. I cannot STAND people who spell with numbers. If it was a possible typo I’d understand, but intentional number-spelling and ‘LOLspeak’ just drive me crazy. I just cannot stand it when people intentionally misspell words.
Whilst I appreciate that Vicki’s heart is in the right place, calling Jade out on her ridiculous spelling, she fails by making spelling and grammar errors herself. Also, the fact that she submitted it herself makes it even more of a fail.
Aren’t you limited on the total characters in a Facebook post? When taking notes or sending text messages, I make my own abbreviations and shorthands all the time. Where do you think we adopted our favorite texting acronyms and shorthands such as: LOL, WTF, AFK, @TEOTD?
It’s all horrendous. The blatant spelling errors bother me less than, say, using an equals sign instead of a colon. Actually, I’m not even certain what they were trying to write at the end. “Don’t you mean equals capital” makes no sense.
Responding quickly < using proper grammar to correct somebody else.
A true grammar Nazi would take two seconds or so to proofread, thus avoiding looking like a hypocrite. If you're going to pwn a dimwit, pwn them with integrity.
Intelligent people already know they are brilliant. They do not need to be pretentious on Facebook, you will find that pompous element elsewhere, here perhaps. I would imagine that between Facebook “friends” as in “wall to wall” comments where the notation is meant for a specific person they also are quite aware of the intelligence level of the person to whom they are writing. This information would make it quite awkward to suddenly become formal on such a traditionally informal text. Personally, I even enjoy making my text difficult to figure out sometimes as do my friends I’m sure;) Now you tell me, how would I spell the wink and its implications.
If only she had also caught Elle’s misspelling of “grammar” as well.
This. That particular misspelling both drives me nuts and makes me feel all smug. ^_^ It’s only ever used by grammar trolls who don’t know what they’re doing…
He also forgot the misspelling of “your”.
And of “you’re” as well.
And the extra ‘o’ in Facebook
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So… none of you guys noticed the missing apostrophe in “dont”?
I did! As a grammar nazi myself, I hate when grammar nazis have bad grammar. Grrr.
That was what annoyed me most about this, the girl correcting the grammar didn’t think to use apostrophes.
and “faceboook” as well.
Well played! =)
“Or we can put quotation marks around it all and it’s all right because it’s how they said it ”
“”FTW”"
There is one period in the entire set of replys. Why has no one caught that!?
Actually, I’m most disturbed by the abuse of the equal sign.
don’t you mean = you mean that?
This is not correct. An equals sign means that both sides represent the same quantity. Here, we have no quantities, and more simply, each side is not the same. This is equal sign abuse, and it happens all the time.
actually, they do mean the same thing, but the person was showing that the OP said it wrong. even if it is wrong, stfu and get a life. but first, calm down with a cup of hot cocoa and watch friends
I think you mean “replies.”
to be fair, grammarnatzi, don’t you mean “replies”, not “replys”?
Don’t you mean “replies”?
is everyone going to say the same thing? “don’t you mean replies?”
also i noticed that everyone was trying to make themselves look just a little smarter than the last person to comment. i bet everyone used word speller with everything they wrote! haha!!
lol this is just classic
lol @ don’t you mean Police? http://www.epiclosers.com/load/FAILPictures/spelling_police_fail/8-1-0-356
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Vicki is pathetic
How is Vicki pathetic? This crap drives me crazy. Makes me wish Facebook had a great big red pen app so I could through and correct this kind of atrocious spelling, English teacher style. Seriously, what is wrong with the letter E that it must be replaced by the number 3? It doesn’t make you look cool, I promise.
Allison is right. Nothing screams “I’m an illiterate dropout” like horrible spelling and grammar on FB. I don’t expect AP style perfection, but some of the stuff I’ve seen can barely be read. It just makes people look, well, literally STUPID. And if you have Firefox, it has spell check built in.
My daughter and I were talking about this a few nights ago. The whole “your – you’re, their – there – they’re” common mistakes. Tommorrow vs. Tomarrow. Am I just too anal? Or are all these other people just too stupid?
I don’t know if you’re anal or not… but you may be anile.
Don’t you mean ‘tomorrow’?
I don’t mind “ur” and “ty” and abbreviations and stuff, it’s the “3′s” instead of “e’s” that bother me a lot. That and when people say “good” instead of “well”, on or off facebook, it’s probably my biggest pet peeve.
Well, when people overuse those abbreviations, it gets REALLY annoying.
For one, correcting spelling, grammar, etc, and typing dont (not don’t) or capitalising her posts.
not to mention submitting this herself
Don’t you mean ‘application’ not ‘app’? Don’t you mean ‘rubbish’ or a more formal word instead of the colloquial word ‘crap’?
How is Vicki pathetic? I think she’s awesome!
I’m assuming he means Vicki is pathetic because: a. She was annoyingly correcting that person’s grammar when he (she? idk) obviously didn’t care, b. Because she made grammar mistakes herself, and c. Most importantly because she submitted this whole thing herself.
It’s also spelled “grammar”, god people are fucking stupid.
dont you mean = don’t
don’t you mean=don’t?
Thirded.
Thank you for that! That is what I consider a delicious irony.
Missed one.
Don’t you mean = Grammar?
hahaha!
Halt! BLIETZKRIEG!!! DONT YOU MEAN LAUGH ON LOSERS! LOL
Hell, the grammar nazi even blocked them here! HA!
Don’t you need an apostrophe in “don’t”?
Hehe… very nice..
Oh, yeah. Get it on!
GrammAr?
She forgot all the apostrophes when she said “don’t”.
Wow, this is a triple fail! All three of them suck so much at basic writing concepts. >.<
Oh God! That was hilarious!
“its faceboook not an essay”
^ I lol’d
They even messed that up. The “its” should be “it’s.” Meaning “It is Facebook…”
I don’t understand why people think it’s okay to forget everything they know about the English language because “it’s Facebook” or a text. I hate the whole “it’s not an essay” argument, it just doesn’t work for me. While I will use colloquialisms and catch myself leaving dangling prepositions in speech (which still make me squirm when I catch myself), why can’t we always write like “it’s an essay” and show one another enough respect to make ourselves understandable!
quit trying to sound smart your not
wow… second time you complain about english writing on facebook on failbooking
you’re nice..! and have a life! =D high five
p.s. don’t kill me if i made a mistakes…. i’m a ‘frenchie’..
Well stated. The slippery slope into mass public ignorance begins with illiteracy!
“Yes because the worst part of our society is our literary abilitys. not the violance rate or the spousal abuse.”
abilities.
Vicky did switch back to using capital letters after it was mentioned.
Although don’t you mean “Don’t”?
She switched to capitalising every word, though. Still wrong.
And I’m SURE you meant grammar!
Don’t you mean… If? grammar? you’re? your? it’s? Facebook?
ffs
What she just did must be a multiple wordtyping fail. xD
omg such fails. i hate it when people use crappy abbreviations and cant spell words :-/
Don’t you mean.. can’t?
The great mystery: Why do people still think they sound smart pointing out spelling errors and shorthand slang on the internet? It’s such a lazy, cheap comeback.
And it’s about as productive as trying to vacuum sand off the beach.
As lazy as not taking the time to spell and articulate what you want to say without making it unreadable? I think not.
If it was unreadable, then how did everyone seem to understand what she was saying? Seems pretty darn readable.
“well there’s your problem right there, “i think not”, what are you doing thinking? and if thoughts are products of the mind and being human we all have minds then your thoughts are no great then anyone elses. silly thinker stay off the web.”
Dear jesselou:
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Hilarity… Pointing out grammatical errors on the internet, or anywhere for that matter, is highly amusing. I believe intelligence to be a great weapon, and those who are too lazy, or stupid, to use correct grammar deserved to be ridiculed. That is all.
Just realized, “Don’t” is this case doesn’t make sense spelled out. “Do not you mean?” Maybe “Do you not mean?” English is weird sometimes.
Makes sense to me. :/
I think what we have here is just one of the odd grammatical quirks of English. Mostly likely, she did probably mean “Do you not mean…?” and for all intensive purposes people then to move the “not” to the more popular contraction of “don’t” even though it completely changes the word order of the sentence and becomes confusing if read as it is written/said (as in, “Do not you mean…?” as you have pointed out).
Man, English is such a weird language but I feel most languages have quirks similar to this.
Don’t you mean “intents and purposes”?
Well, as long as people are being grammar nazis, and I’m an English teacher, the correct phrase is “for all intents and purposes.” Not “intensive purposes.”
I’m pretty sure “Mostly likely” doesn’t categorize itself in the English language either.
Ackcherly, I believe it is done for purposes of intensification, and it is rather the “all” that is superfluous.
Yup..I was wondering if someone else caught that.. or simply.. “Do you mean?”
and *grammAr?!
WOW, that sounds JUST like my ex. There can’t be that many Jades out there that write like that. She drove me NUTS!
in before a million “Don’t you mean = Don’t HUR HUR”
Wow… so much time of my life learning basic English, and then I discover that most of the people (including even English and Americans themselves) don’t give a damn about it.
This world is fantastic, there’s always something surprising to discover. =D
Yes, sadly I have come across two people from France (or claimed to be) who typed perfect English. Afterward they said “Sorry if my English is bad,” to which I said “You don’t even know dude.”
VICKI = AWESOME!!!
Yeah, the grammar Nazi did not even notice that grammar was spelled incorrectly, and changing “dont you mean” to “Dont You Mean” is not correct capitalization either. If she were really trying to be a smart *ss, she would have said, “Don’t you mean ‘capital’?”
BTW, I’m good with grammar, but I try not to call people out on it, except in cases where the people are being jerks and pointing out other people’s errors. Or unless it’s really, really funny.
I think the focus was on spelling rather than grammar. I can understand that. I am bad with grammar but I cannot stand people who spell with numbers. Or the trend currently of spelling without vowels. Seriously makes my brain hurt.
Or “speelliiing wiith mooree voooweels thaan neeedeed”. Actually this trend seems way more common with my fellow native Spanish speakers; it looks equally as retarded, if not more so. Drives me nuts!
Thank God other people with intelligence exist. I cannot STAND people who spell with numbers. If it was a possible typo I’d understand, but intentional number-spelling and ‘LOLspeak’ just drive me crazy. I just cannot stand it when people intentionally misspell words.
Just,ingenious!
:D
I love Vicki and I want her to have my bastard children.
Hey, I LIKE this wo…wait a minute…Vicki? Is that my cousin?
grammar nazi fail fail!
Whilst I appreciate that Vicki’s heart is in the right place, calling Jade out on her ridiculous spelling, she fails by making spelling and grammar errors herself. Also, the fact that she submitted it herself makes it even more of a fail.
Still awesome to read though!
… and yet another thing that makes me scared of what my generation will do to the future.
This site never fails to make me smile
Vicki, you’re officially my Facebook hero. Thank you.
Really? Intensive purposes? What the hell does that mean? Fail.
Don’t you mean = grammar?
Shame Vicki can’t spell ‘don’t’ correctly or use capitalisation consistently.
Wakakaakakaka silly fail book! What typ of profile was this?
What does bb3zz even mean? Or bbezz for that matter?
Sadly I think it’s supposed to be ‘babes’ as in a term of affection rather than a plural of babe.
This makes me die a little inside.
Dont You Mean = Don’t
It’s ironic that Vicki never put an apostrophe on “don’t”.
omglmao ur all a bunch of morans!
Vicki sucks for submitting this herself! So lame, thinking what she did was cool and funny.
Well I have news for you Vicki. It’s spelled ‘don’t'!
Hahaha!
I love this girl Vicki!
If you insist on correcting people’s grammar and spelling, your grammar and spelling must be pristine, or you just look like a douche.
Aren’t you limited on the total characters in a Facebook post? When taking notes or sending text messages, I make my own abbreviations and shorthands all the time. Where do you think we adopted our favorite texting acronyms and shorthands such as: LOL, WTF, AFK, @TEOTD?
Lol. It’s hilarious. 0.o
There is no excuse when it comes to grammar.
Vicki’s grammar and spelling isn’t perfect but I can at least understand what the hell she’s saying.
WIN!
It’s also “grammar” not “Grammer”
It’s all horrendous. The blatant spelling errors bother me less than, say, using an equals sign instead of a colon. Actually, I’m not even certain what they were trying to write at the end. “Don’t you mean equals capital” makes no sense.
Responding quickly < using proper grammar to correct somebody else.
A true grammar Nazi would take two seconds or so to proofread, thus avoiding looking like a hypocrite. If you're going to pwn a dimwit, pwn them with integrity.
Don’t you mean “Don’t”
Intelligent people already know they are brilliant. They do not need to be pretentious on Facebook, you will find that pompous element elsewhere, here perhaps. I would imagine that between Facebook “friends” as in “wall to wall” comments where the notation is meant for a specific person they also are quite aware of the intelligence level of the person to whom they are writing. This information would make it quite awkward to suddenly become formal on such a traditionally informal text. Personally, I even enjoy making my text difficult to figure out sometimes as do my friends I’m sure;) Now you tell me, how would I spell the wink and its implications.
Couldn’t agree more
LOL F*CKING WIN!
Oh, lawd. The poor equal sign has taken a beating.
WIN!
I know people’ve already mentioned this about a thousand times but
…
= GRAMMAR!!
Ugh.
bekas yoi alöl suck ät änglsith aj vill spam kräpy written eänglish =D
Haft fumn retourds