I am a passive aggressive grammar Nazi...

I find myself replying to friends facebook statuses just so I can correct their grammar or spelling. Prime example, a friend posts "Still got those Uncle Kracker tickets". I reply "if you still HAVE those tickets, maybe everyone else is in on the secret that Uncle Kracker sucks". Do I need an intervention of some sort?

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because I like Rush? :rofl:

just the most egregious :P

We need to be friends on FB because I would do the exact same thing.

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I wander around my workplace correcting misspellings on posted bulletins and those obnoxious rah-rah type of inspirational messages that always seem to appear.

As long as it goes through spellcheck its ok. Alot of people word things differently. Whose to say which of two different wordings are best? Its up to them, not up to you or I.

I was beginning to worry that lots of people were taking my post seriously.

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I may plotz.

with an apostrophe to indicate the possessive.

But I'm not sure if the plural of "status" is "statuses" or "stati". Hmmm.

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because some Spelling Nazi nailed my spelling of "rediculous". We get sucked into the dark side so easily.

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Magically, sort of....as in "What is YOUR status?" and "What is OUR status, What is THEIR STATUS?" or "The status of those starving dogs (that starving dog) is critical."
Cheers.

This is going to give me a headache, I can tell.

OUR status can be singular, if we share the status of something. If we are working on a project, like painting a fence, then we can talk about OUR status being 50% done. But if you're painting the fence and I'm roofing the garage, then we would talk about OUR statuses as separate, plural things: I'm 50% done, and you're slackin' at 25%.

The (singular) status of starving dogs would probably not make sense. The starving dogs would have individual statuses. Some of the dogs could die, and others could be just fine. Especially in a dog-eat-dog world, where starvation would be a self-correcting phenomenon, at least in the short run.

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I looked it up. Merriam Webster (according to the interwebs) says "statuses" is plural.
I still don't think I could use the word, though. I would find a way around it...Like, for example..."How are the starving dogs doing?" And I assume that I would get an answer delineating individual conditions.

Good luck with your headache.

grrrrr


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Second, you need to Lighten up Francis. :P

you saying can understands. Talking to make points everybody be: if point understooded, talk are succeeded; if talk not understooded, why me should be happy that grammar nicely? Arrange word very neater and all correctnessly but sayings nothing whosoever -- foo that!