6) Bad Poor Grammar
It truly is horrifying to consider the prevalence of incorrect grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Between publications, advertisements, and signs (the worst of the offenders), I struggle to understand why certain concepts evade the editors of these printed materials.
I could speak (or write) endlessly about this topic, but I have decided to isolate my complaints to three distinct subcategories:
Spelling mistakes are absolutely inexcusable, especially considering that Spellcheck, aka the tool that corrects all of these horrors, exists.
I would like some potafinger salad too, please.
No offense to my mom (she still insists on omitting it), but I think the implementation of the Oxford comma (aka the serial or Harvard comma) should be universal. There are countless examples as to why it is imperative to the meaning of the sentence to use the comma. Although my favorite news source The New York Times (and all other syndicated newspapers) blatantly exclude it, I believe it has a VERY important purpose, as seen below.
Some time between first grade and adulthood, the purpose of quotation marks was completely reinterpreted. Instead of signifying a direct quote or very obvious sarcasm, quotation marks are now very widely used to signify something special...or, more accurately, "special."
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