Arntor:
It annoys me when I see that I've used England's English spelling for one word and then an American English spelling for another in whatever I'm writing. Then I debate whether or not I should edit all of it into English-English or American-English, but I say "Fuck it" and go to sleep. Also, I tend to get fussy over where I put my commas.

Use England's English...after all they did kind of invent the damn language.

Fronken:
well, if people have trouble with the english language but still give it their best shot, i salute them, it's the people who know english but choose to write like idiots i hate, for example, young kids who play CS should not be allowed to write english, seriously, have you tried joining a CS chat and reading?, its really fucking annoying

I also hate it when people are hypocritical... No offence, but anyone who doesn't type properly (or at least does most of the time) doesn't get the privilege to bitch. I'm sorry, but no.

I'm not pleased with people not typing properly, but such is life. What I do care about is when people incessantly bitch to others about people not typing properly. Get over it.

Evil Lawyer:
Have any of you read a book called "Eats, Shoots and Leaves"? Although it is not a perfect grammar book, it is still quite funny and the author is about the closest thing you can find to an obessive grammatican with a keen sense of humour. One of her grammar exploits sends her to a local cinema where a film title left out an apostrophe, so she makes one out of paper and a stick and stands in front of the poster holding the apostrophe in the correct place as people stare at her.

Fantastic book. It's definitely one of my favorites. As far as movies go, it irked me that "Pursuit of Happyness" intentionally spelled the word wrong; but I haven't seen it. A friend told me it's actually a device used in the movie; but it still bothered me, lol.

I think it's easier for Americans to not worry about the differences between UK English and American English; we simply don't know about it. There isn't a class on it, and nobody ever really points it out. I consider myself a pretty learned person; that is, experienced with more cultures than just my own (actually, other cultures absolutely fascinate me, but that's a different subject) but even I'm only aware of a few differences in spelling and formatting, as well as a few choice slang words. I'd love to learn more, but as I said, it's difficult to find over here. What I do know, I've learned from the internet, to be honest: talking to some of you who are across the ocean from me has taught me a bit. I also read books by British authors, which was pretty entertaining at first because I was absolutely CONVINCED that "whinging" was a typo, until it occurred more than once and I decided to look it up.

There should totally be a high-level English course focusing on the differences between UK and American English. I'd take it even though it wouldn't apply to my major at all.

I try to use proper grammar and spelling most of the time while on the interwebs, however, my faith in the English language has been shaken once I saw the "Buffalo" sentence. Besides that, while I was working with some immigrants in an English As A Second Language class, I got to see just how bizarre most phrases and rules of grammar we have. There are so many strange rules that we naturally accept without noticing if we're a native speaker that are simply puzzling to anyone else trying to learn it. The whole experience makes me somewhat thankful I'm an English speaker learning Spanish rather than a Spanish speaker learning English. At least with Spanish, exceptions to the rules don't pop up with the maddening frequency they do in English.

Then again, I'm far from fluent. There's probably a whole nest of crazy rules that will boggle my mind the more I study.

I try to spell as well as I can, but honestly I really don't care if someone is not spelling correctly. As long as I understand what they are trying to say and not using slang up the ass it's fine. Everyone makes spelling mistakes from time to time, be it they are a fast typer or they just overlooked something. Don't see why some people go bat shit if they don't always speak perfectly, the odd improper capitalization isn't going to end the freaking world.

while i understand that people are typing fast and doing a number of other things at the same time and also i understand that english is nopt realyy logical in it's spelling and grammar i really prefer that ppl at least make the atempt to construct a correct and coherent sentecne i mean trying to be comprehensible is not only good for your brain its also a sign of respect srsly if you cannot bother to put your thougts down clearly why should anyone else bother to read them at least read it once your self before you hit post and also their is the edit button if you notice to late that you made amistake i use it all the time because i screw up alot which is ironic considaring how much i blahblahblah all over the place youd think i'd have it worked out buy now

I get really annoyed when people fail to spell a word or puntuate correctly. It really does send a little tic to my face. I find it hard to even stand "lol" or other internet usage and have to force myself to use "IMO" or "BTW", amongst others, if I wish to type a post fast.

I knew of people who would write ESSAYS with sentences such as:

"I was at school, n this girl sed 'u smell'."

Or some other such rot. It especially irks me that when I was at school sitting GCSE exams, it was made clear to us that poor spelling would not cause marks to be deducted - even in English exams!

It is one of my pet hates and sometimes find myself correcting friends like a teacher, which I don't want to do but just cannot help at times.
Also, where I live people seem to have trouble differentiating between 'Brought' and 'Bought' so they will say things like:

"I bought the football with me today."

Which REALLY annoys me! Okay, rant over. Will try and do some work now.

EDIT: Incidentally the post above me makes the point pretty well and I must say I do use the 'edit' button myself quite a lot to try and get what I have written perfect in structure, spelling, punctuation and grammar.

TheNecroswanson:
English, is shit.

Clearly you've never seen French people chat on the internet.

Francais, le merde?