17 Tweets That'll Make Any Grammar/Punctuation Nerd Laugh And Feel Smug

    "People with good spelling and grammar have typo-negative blood."

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    [on date] "I think we should take this a step farther" Actually, farther implies distance, while further is figurati- *date already left*

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    me deleting the oxford comma from a post so it meets the character limit

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    Writer: "Is it 'firsthand' or 'first hand'?" Editor: "Either one is fine."

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    Foreplay is like a semicolon; even if you don't totally understand how it works, you should try it every chance you get.

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    someone: hey could you let me know if i need a comma here? me, has a B.S. in linguistics: do u feel a comma in your heart

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    I handed her the flowers. “You shouldn’t of!” she said. I took them back. “Have,” I whispered

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    Spider-Man's greatest weakness is punctuation.

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    People with good spelling and grammar have typo-negative blood

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    Been reading up on the thesaurus lately because a mind is a terrible thing to garbage

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    I just ate, my kids couldn't be happier. I just ate my kids, couldn't be happier. Grammar IS important, people.

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    I don't like being called a "grammar nazi". In future, please describe me as "alt-write".

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    Capitalization can really change a sentence. Example: I love to eat candy. I love to eat capitalization.

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    [my wife talking to the cops over my corpse] He saw the quotation marks and thought they were being ironic.

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    COMMAS AREN’T PEOPLE. https://t.co/dO1EzRygNw

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    I used to love correcting people's grammar until I realized what I loved more was having friends.