I don’t know if you’re like me, but I have never been a stickler for punctuation. I know many people in my life that get very upset when they see bad punctuation or a word being used improperly. I really don’t care that we Americans have so many slang words for everything, after all they are only words and have no meaning except what we give them.

I could listen to some of those hiphop and street kids talk and it would all sound like jabbering to me, but so long as they are down with it so be it. There are more important things to be upset about as far as I’m concerned. I know it’s important to have communication and the proper words to convey what you’re feeling or talking about.

It disturbs me a tad when people are annal or rather anal and are always correcting someone, I have yet to meet anyone that is perfect. I don’t claim to be a writer and I always get confused about using apostrophes because I can never remember if the ‘ goes before the s or after to show ownership and I actually don’t care. I understand what’s implied and that’s all that matters.

It seems that the older I get my mind starts playing a few tricks on me. I am forever using a different word for the one I actually meant like there and their, hills and heels and I never can remember if the i goes before e or viceversa when it comes to words like receipt. I have forgotten all the rules I learned in school because I never had to apply them in my life time.

I would never go to someones blog and correct their grammar or punctuation as far as I’m concerned I can leave if I have a hard time looking at it and if someone gave me link love do you really think I am going to be annal= anal ” there’s that misspelled word again”  and tell them they didn’t punctuate correctly. I cracked up the other day when I saw someone do just that.

We all see little mistakes like that all the time, but must we feel like it’s our duty to point them out? I am not the Internet grammar, punctuation police and I always see these people as cocky and superior types, but to each their own. I’ll take the down home plain speaking or writing person, mistakes and all any day over the uptight, annal-minus 1 n, obsessive know it all.

This really didn’t start out as a rant. It was simply to poke fun at myself because I also forget which words are allowed to be slapped together like alot or should it be a lot? You understand what I’m saying I’m sure and I’d hate to check my blog someday or some day and find that it had been graded by the grammar police and received an F.