Comment Intimidation and a Quick Grammar Lesson

Hi friends!  I’m continually surprised by how many of you contact me privately and say that you wanted to comment on a Finding Ninee post but were intimidated to do so.  Let me reassure you from deep within my heart that there is no need for anybody to feel intimidated here, ever.  I don’t care if you can relate to ASD, SPD, developmental delays, speech and language delays, autism, or even parenting.  If you ever feel even a slight urge to do so, please comment (oh and while you’re at it, if your fingers could find the love to vote for me from the home page by just clicking a little tiny bit, as in you use very little energy to do so, I’d appreciate it tons.  You’ll burn calories doing it.  People will love you more – I most certainly will love you more – and your overall karma will be much improved.
I speak the truth.).

So, because, you know, I care, I’m providing you with a few comments that you are free to copy and paste when the commenting urge strikes you but you have comment-block, feel intimidated or are unsure of your spelling:

“Wow, Kristi!  That’s a really bad drawing but it made me laugh!”

“What a well written post.  I love Finding Ninee!”

“You’re an idiot What a unique point of view.  I’m not sure I relate but I’ll totally be back and love on your blog some more.  Please draw me a unicorn.”

“Tucker is adorable and you’re totally hot. Please draw me a unicorn flying a ninee.”

It also occurred to me that perhaps you’re intimidated due to having forgotten all of the grammar they taught us back in the day.  You know, at school, before Google, cell phones and Twitter were even born.  Therefore, I’ve created these handy little grammar guides for you, addressing the most common mistakes I see in the internetcyberspaceworldwideweb place.  It should be stated here that I am most definitely not even close to the smartest person I know.  In fact, there are many times that I spend 10 minutes rewording a sentence to avoid certain words or references.  These are just a couple of quickie guides of grammar stuff that bugs me personally.  I’m sure thousands of wrongly stated phrases pass me by weekly.  Anyway, here they are. Feel free to print whichever one gives you trouble and tape it to your computer.  But, only if you want to.  Because, you know, I’m not pushy.  Or even often correct.

There, Their and They’re

Your vs. You’re

To test which one to use, try using the words “you are” instead of you’re or your.  If “you are” works, use “you’re.”

Could Have, Would Have and Should Have

Because I personally know more than one smart person who has typed “of” rather than “have” in an email to me, and they may not believe a dumbass like yours truly, I’ve hired this really smart dark-haired professor woman with glasses and a British accent to educate you. You can tell she’s smart because she has books all around her with titles such as “Hard Things for Smarties.”  Not a title that I’ll likely ever own.

Regardless

Adding “ir” to regardless makes it void and incorrect.  Irregardless is not a proper word. Look it up.  I’m not pulling your leg.  Plus, did you like how I incorporated the “you’re” lesson into this drawing, too!  Little reinforcers, people!  They help!

It’s vs. Its

“It’s” is short for “it is” or “it has.”  “Its” is not.  Easy peasy!

There are probably a lot of other common mistakes that I’m forgetting to mention here (a lot being one of them she realizes as she types this) but I’m tired of drawing today.

What are some grammatical errors that totally annoy you?