And while I'm in the mood...

Good freaking heavens. This country is in dire, dire need of a grammar overhaul. I refuse to wade into the "lie, lay, lied, laid" waters (although I'd say that at my age, I've finally mastered who and whom), but a simple grasp of the proper use of "your" and "you're" would make things easier to read.

I realize that I just got done railing against people thinking it's all about themselves. While the proliferous abuse of you're/your bugs the @#$%! out of me on a DAILY basis, I know there are many that share my view. So therefore, this not about appeasing me and my grammar fetish. This is about being a literate member of society.

So, for the record, since about 98% of Facebook users miss this 99% of the time:

Your- is possessive, as in "your poor use of grammar", thereby highlighting you possess a poor use of grammar.

You're- is a contraction, a lovely English way of shortening words because "you are" is apparently 1 syllable to many to say, as in "you're an English language killer" which is 1 syllable short of the amount in the phrase "you are an English language killer". (In defense of the contraction- I do it all the time. I talk fast, contractions are almost a speech defense mechanism of my muscles trying to keep up with my thoughts.)

Bad days at work drive me to this.

Until next time, when I will tackle the egregious misuse of the triple whammy their/there/they're...