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    Good God almighty, thank you, brains. Excepting non-native speakers and those with a learning disability, what the heck is up with the rest of you English-raping goofballs? It's laziness and, perhaps more importantly, an apathetic educational system that has fostered this colossal ignorance. We work in a communication-based profession, and it seems like a bunch of us don't even have mastery of our own language's basic grammar.

    Here are some of my favorite semi-literate gems:
    your (instead of you're)
    a whole 'nother
    beg (instead of raise) the question (begging the question is a logical fallacy)
    could (instead of couldn't) care less
    would/could/should/might/etc. of (instead of have)
    than/then
    loose (instead of lose)

    Grammatical nihilism.

    Vernacular and slang is one thing, but being utterly unaware of the fundamentals of ones language is quite another.

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