The deceitfully clever linguist.

I'm Rachel.
INTJ.

3645 miles away lies the best thing that's ever happened to me, and the days can't go by fast enough until I see him again. I am in many ways defined by my LDR but it's only made me better.

I drool over anything linguistics related. I've got a mean sweet tooth and severe cases of wanderlust. I hate stagnancy, and that's probably partially the reason I love to travel more than anything in the world. I'm cynical and admire Nietzsche and Bukowski. But once in a while, you'll catch my Kierkegaard side. If any of that made sense, you might get a kick out of following me.

And yes, my blog title is partially a synonym for "cunning".

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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

 

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

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.

  1. everythingisbeautifullyboring reblogged this from thegestianpoet
  2. itmightbehere reblogged this from thegestianpoet and added:
    ^^ To anyone who has this problem, please, take a class on the history of the English language. IT WILL CHANGE YOU’RE...
  3. sushi-king said: your perfect and you’re intelligence is so rare
  4. pisumsativa reblogged this from inourbloodinoursouls and added:
    THANK YOU. Obsession with grammar...thou and pedantic thing. It
  5. inourbloodinoursouls reblogged this from roundtop and added:
    Yeah, I have recently developed issues with thinking one thing and typing another, similar sounding word, and people...
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  7. barebackobama said: There’s a difference between the occasional mistake and a habitual disregard or unawareness of your/you’re or there/their/they’re, and I genuinely know people who don’t know that difference and I think pointing constructively isn’t bad
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    grammar nazis have corrupted logical units - hence the irrational need to correct for english’s protection etc
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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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