I don't mind it when people say I have a "dual personality", but I HATE it when they misspell it... D-U-L-L.

And I was expecting duel, that would be interesting ;)

I don't buy the excuse of "I can spell perfectly, but I just can't bother to make the effort right now" because you either spell correctly or not. Spelling is not something that requires effort or concentration. If you're proficient in the language, it should come to you naturally. In fact, it takes an effort to misspell things if you really know the language.

Not a spelling mistake, but when people use the words 'tis or 'twas, it really winds me up.

Seriously, if you do this and you were born any time after the 18th century, stop it. It's not funny, or original, or endearing in any way. You're welcome.

'twat?

I think it takes some effort to become pro-efficient enough in the structure and words of a language to write in a legible manner.

Once you have invested the effort, yes, writing properly to be understood comes naturally (and depending on your degree of investment and natural aptitude for linguistics, you may still make some mistakes when you write, but given that the remaining 95%+ of what you write still follows the conventions of the written language, the reader's brain can auto-correct the mistakes).

In the case of my friend, he treated school like a joke during those formative years when you learn proper grammar and write essays to reinforce what was learned.

Afterwards, he never bothered catching up on the lost years. He got a blue collar job so he doesn't need it to earn a living. Overall, it wouldn't be so bad, except that occasionally, he writes and I have to read and understand what he writes.

Every time I see this thread show up on the main page now I keep thinking how fun it would be to own a dog and call him "Peeve", so I could introduce him to people as my "pet Peeve". Mostly for personal amusement while they roll their eyes at me.

My neighbor had two pit bulls. I taught the smaller one to respond to "Pebble" and the larger to respond to "Peeve", so he had a pibble Pebble and a pet Peeve. Moral of the story: if you live on my street and leave your dogs chained to your porch for months on end, I will feed them regularly and they will love me more than they love you. My dad joke powers are unstoppable.

Actually, if you want real dad joke powers (assuming you are male), find another man to marry and have some children. Now you and your husband can give *twice* the usual number of dad jokes.

(Disclaimer: If you are not actually gay/bi or similar, I wouldn't actually recommend doing this.)

Did you just assume his gender? :P (rofl never expected to actually type that, even less on GOG)

Mine would be walking socklesss (I guess it's the term), I just like knowing where the dirt and dust in my room is so I can clean it like I always do my room 2 times a week, this place gets dusty really quickly with 2 storage points.