Frustration of the Day
Also Laugh of the Day
Funny how those work together...
Here's what I just texted to my friend Kira:
"I just saw a Facebook post where a girl was expressing, I assume, how she would rather live in the moment and take risks than stay safe and sheltered and technically alive but not with a life. I suppose it's a nice sentiment, but I was a bit confused because of her first sentence. I'm pretty sure, judging by the coherent parts of the rest of her little Facebook speech, that she meant for it to say 'I would rather live than live forever', but what she wrote was 'I would rather live, then live forever'. There were also lots of other grammatical errors I won't get into at this time.
It's no wonder I'm so antisocial.
I kind of bring it upon myself by being like that, don't I?
I don't know why I'm making such a big deal of it, but it's probably because that's just what I do. I send six texts explaining how much I hate people's grammatical errors on Facebook when I know that, well, it's Facebook."
It really does bug me, and I really don't know why. Facebook is full of things like this, and I just happened to decide to pick on this one.
I didn't actually pick on her, by the way. I just calmly kept scrolling and decided to vent on my blog, which this girl will most likely never read.
I actually feel kind of mean now, but at the same time I don't, because this person had just as many opportunities as I did to learn how to speak and type English at least coherently, if not entirely correctly. Why didn't she use these opportunities?! Life would be so much easier if everyone would just use correct grammar.
Seriously.
In other news, I had a pretty great day today. I had bacon, Greek yogurt, and chocolate cake for breakfast this morning, I got all my homework done at school so it wasn't actually homework, and I had a nice time talking to various friends (and getting some of their phone numbers). My older brother Ian will be submitting his mission papers for the LDS church on Saturday, and I just found out my friend Penny's older sister is going on a mission in Mexico on the 16th of April. My piano lesson went well and I have time to practice clarinet and flute (and maybe violin and piano).
Or, at least, I wasn't as frustrated about it as I usually am. :)
ReplyDeleteOne time I saw this girl post a selfie of herself on Facebook (which isn't unusual) but another girl commented "r so beautiful..." then commented under it "u r**" Why even bother correcting it!
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I texted this to Kira before I actually had her real phone number. I put it in wrong, which is embarrassing. Anyway, I just thought I'd make you all aware (as it is vitally important) that Kira never actually received this text. For all I know I actually sent that to some stranger, who is now confuzzled.
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