Constantly angry over grammatical errors by others

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Yes, people annoy me when they don't correct their grammer, punctuation or spelling. I know it's not the end of the world, but it still sometimes bothers me. Usually I make loads of mistakes whilst typing, but as soon as I submit it, I end up editing it again to correct my mistakes, because I'm too damn lazy to read through my post before submitting it, and I only seem to spot the mistakes after submitting.

This may be off-topic, but what annoys me the most is when I'm writing a post on the internet or a text on my mobile phone, I miss out one of the most important words in the sentence, making the sentence have a completely different meaning all because I missed this one word out. So the next time I write things like ''don't'' or ''haven't'', etcetera, I always check that I have added the extra ''n't''. So say if I text ''I don't want to stop being your friend'', but accidentally miss out the ''n't'' on the ''don't'', then I'm in trouble because even if I immediately send back another text saying that was a mistake, you get some that are good enough to believe it, and others that could get upset quite easily and not believe you and think you are mucking them around (mostly paranoid people).

And the ''insert'' button in the keyboard drives me crazy when it is accidentally pressed without me knowing. I wish there was some sort of light that comes up on the laptop indicating that the ''insert'' button is activated. That would make life a lot easier.

Spelling errors (and some punctuation errors) drive me nuts. I don't use Twitter and I have deleted friends on Facebook based on the improper use of "their/there" in updates or punctuation errors like using a series of commas instead of "..." Oh that drove me NUTS!

I had that too back in high school. It got cured when I read Shakespeare in its original form.

Yep. I definitely know all about this. I'm sure I've annoyed more than a few people by pointing out their grammatical errors. I don't know...it's like I can't help it. I hate it when even the simplest words get misspelled, or the commas and apostrophes are in the wrong places.

It's far more annoying when someone deliberately uses a totally absurd choice of words and sentence structure.

For example, "I heart New York" really sucks as far as any rational use of English. "Heart" is not a verb.

There's another example on this same board: "how did u get to b u?" at http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt214837.html.

I get pissed off when people do this, especially if I wrote something very profound and just missed a comma or something, and all they do is point out the comma missing.

I think it's a dick move.

As much as I hate grammar nazi's, I do utterly scream and cry my lungs out when a news or radio presenter makes a spelling error or when some written news articles have grammar errors in them.

HALP!!1!

You could argue that using "heart" as a verb is part of the evolution of language.
I think sloppiness and inattention to detail is more annoying and also "more wrong" than playing with language.

The other day I was watching one of the House Hunters tv shows. In that particular show, they had some young woman in New York City looking for a house.

For those who are unfamiliar with the show, someone looking for a house looks at three houses, chooses the house they want, and buys it.

In reality, the buyer had already found and bought their house before taping even begins. The other two houses featured in the show are reported to often be those of friends or others that are not even on the market.

In this particular show, I found it to be extraordinarily irritating the way she kept walking around the houses they were in and saying "Me likey" whenever she saw something she liked. From that one two word phrase/sentence, I could only consider her to be nothing more than ignorant. It was so irritating that it didn't take very long for me to change channels.

I saw it argued that doing away with spelling rules is part of the evolution of language. I didn't agree with that argument either.

Come on. Using cutesy slang does not make a person ignorant.

It may not make the person ignorant (that has other causes) but it can be a pretty good indicator of ignorance.

Their there they're, it'll all work out all right.

These arguments are fundamentally different and should not be intermixed. Without any rules, communication becomes arbitrary and loses the ability to fulfill its primary function. So I wouldn't agree with the idea that we don't need any rules.
At the same time, it's an undeniable fact that those rules are always in flux. Things that were wrong at some point in time become correct later on (because it was adopted by a large enough group of people).

I often feel the urge to point out mistakes that people make in spelling, grammar or word usage although I've never found myself getting angry over it or disliking a person for not correcting themselves.

Because of the way language use is changing due to technology, things like 'internet slang' are becoming more common. Whilst not entirely a bad thing (since it can save time, not to mention shave a lot of unwanted seriousness out of a conversation), it's encouraging people to disregard the proper spelling and usage of English words.

Try not to let it bother you if someone makes a spelling or grammar mistake, people learn at different rates and have strengths and weaknesses in different areas. That person might lack in English what they make up for in maths, so try and go easy on them