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- There Goes The Internet Grammar Nazis You’re, your. It’s, its. Their, there, they’re. Are these really so difficult to distinguish and use properly?Apparently so. On the Internet, grammatical and spelling errors abound, even with (and often because of) our friend Autocorrect. Each post affords yet another opportunity for the undereducated or the maddeningly careless to offend, mobilize and often infuriate the unofficial keepers of The Rules of English. More ominously, each tweet, limited as they are to 140 characters or less, chips inexorably away at form in favor of function. Three spaces are gained by losing all the e’s in “between” when written as “btwn.” The word “tonight” becomes “tonite” or, shorter still, “2nite.” Will we witness a day where the differences among “too,” “two” and “to” won’t matter, because they are all spelled as “2”? © rangizzz - Fotolia.com. Used with Permission The Netizens who keep us all on our proverbial toes are known generally as Grammar Nazis (I didn’t invent the term, so my apologies if you’re offended by the casual appropriation of this word).
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