Perhaps my BIGGEST pet peeve.....

It might come as a shock to many of you that I fancy myself a writer. Then again, as you're actually here reading something that I wrote, maybe not.

I wish I could make a living doing this, and I still have aspirations to do so, but I lack the business acumen to actually send out prospecti...prospectuses letters of intent, so my (soon to be) award-winning writing career will have to wait on the as-yet named agent/manager that is even now moving towards our fated meeting some time in the future....

Something that may not be immediately clear is that I'm also a reader. I mean, like voracious. I read just about anything and everything. If I'm not actively engaged in something else (blogging for instance or playing a vid) I'm usually reading. I read when I eat, in the crapper, I even usually read with the t.v. on as I lay in bed readying myself for sleep.

That prolly doesn't surprise any of you. Most writers are readers as well. It kinda goes with the territory. I also have the heart of a proofreader. I've tried not to be to anal about it on here, but sometimes, I'll read my preview 6 or 7 times before hitting that 'publish' button. I also find typos/grammatical errors in books, magazines, newspapers...you name it, I've found an error in it.

I also read a lot on the internet (another shocker i know) and I find errors there too. I know, right? Who would have thought that the unnamed masses of anonymous bloggers/message board surfers/whatevers out there (some im convinced without any formal education whatsoever) don't take the time/trouble to read what they've typed before commiting it to the 'net.

I'm guilty of it, I know. I often read one of my posts (sometimes after the preview process above) and find a dropped letter, or a missed word. Transpositions? Yeah, guilty. There is one thing I've never done though, and never will. It's the thing I hate the most.

No, it's not a wall of text (find your return key you ass) nor is it the internet equivilent of SHOUTING (its not cool it makes you look like an idiot), no, what I'm talking about is Then v. Than.

It's pretty simple, really. Then denotes time, Than denotes degree.

I'll be crusing along, reading a post, perhaps even thinking 'Wow, someone that has a coherent thought,' and then it happens...'I love it more then.....'

No, you fucktard, it's than. Then is not a typo for than, it's an entirely different fucking word!! For the love of Mike, learn the fucking difference before I come to your house and beat the life out of you.....

'I was so much older than, I'm younger then that now.'

Yeah, that just doesn't do it for me. I swear, everytime I see it I usually just stop reading, no matter how lucid or provocative the material is, because as soon as I read the wrong word, I automatically question the intelligence of the author.

It really gives me the red ass.

Buenos con queso,

T.