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Joy is in the ears that hear

Hello! My name is Joe Kessler. I'm a 23-year-old grad student, studying linguistics at the University at Buffalo in upstate New York. I grew up in Vero Beach, Florida, and I went to college at William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

I am pro-diversity in all domains, and I am a regular advocate for acceptance and celebration of linguistic variation. Not sure what that means? Feel free to ask me anything, or check out my blog on the subject.

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  • People who allow the correct use of “your” and “you’re” to sway your opinion on someone.

    mapsofmymind:

    You can leave. 

    I literally would punch you all in the face if I could. 

    It’s one thing to prefer the “correct” usage, but damnit stop correcting it every single time and blowing it out of proportion and demeaning people because god forbid they were doing something like multi tasking and used the wrong one. You have no right to point that out to make yourself feel superior for catching it. It’s not that big of a deal. 

    Some people just try to be correct with it and that’s whatever, I don’t care, but when you get an attitude and insult someone’s intelligence because at the moment- that wasn’t the most important thing, or they slipped, you look like a jerk.

    Stop it, and shut up. There’s almost always context and you know damn well if they mean you are or your. Okay? It’s not the end of the world.

    Tagged: language tolerance

    Posted on January 28, 2012 via in the raw with 40 notes

    Source: mapsofmymind

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      ^^ To anyone who has this problem, please, take a class on the history of the English language. IT WILL CHANGE YOU’RE...
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    7. iced-out-bart said: your perfect and you’re intelligence is so rare
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      THANK YOU. Obsession with grammar...thou and pedantic thing. It
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      Yeah, I have recently developed issues with thinking one thing and typing another, similar sounding word, and people...
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      To all the grammar-fixated out there: it is possible to recover! I, too, once allowed myself to wallow in undeserved...
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