{"id":4180,"date":"2016-06-09T18:56:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T18:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2016-06-09T18:56:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T18:56:58","slug":"in-defence-of-grammar-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=4180","title":{"rendered":"In Defence Of Grammar Nazis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The grammar nazi. The scourge of the Internet who are responsible for flaming to a crisp anyone who dares let slip an aberrant\u00a0apostrophe. They can often seem a bit extreme &#8211; does it really matter if someone accidentally uses &#8220;their&#8221; instead of &#8220;they&#8217;re&#8221; ? Well yes it does, and I write as someone who all too often makes mistakes myself.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly the improper use of certain words can dramatically alter the meaning of a sentence &#8211; your readers will not know what you intended if you make mistakes in the wrong place.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, the more mistakes you make, the less understandable you become; at a certain point you will give up trying to read something if it is too impenetrable such as &#8220;When u wana rip ppsls faces off but kno il get into a teeny bit of trouble n I hav white on blood is a&#8230;&#8221; (a real example). I can work out what that means, but I really can&#8217;t be bothered.<\/p>\n<p>So go ahead grammar nazis; unleash the flame throwers, because some people need it.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4160\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/B84V1827t1-elderley-man-past-gravestones.jpeg?resize=682%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"B84V1827t1-elderley-man-past-gravestones\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/B84V1827t1-elderley-man-past-gravestones.jpeg?resize=682%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 682w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/B84V1827t1-elderley-man-past-gravestones.jpeg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/B84V1827t1-elderley-man-past-gravestones.jpeg?resize=768%2C1153&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/B84V1827t1-elderley-man-past-gravestones.jpeg?w=1359&amp;ssl=1 1359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grammar nazi. The scourge of the Internet who are responsible for flaming to a crisp anyone who dares let slip an aberrant\u00a0apostrophe. They can often seem a bit extreme &#8211; does it really matter if someone accidentally uses &#8220;their&#8221; instead of &#8220;they&#8217;re&#8221; ? Well yes it does, and I write as someone who all <a href='https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=4180' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-7-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-15q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4182,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions\/4182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}