For all the grammar nazis monitoring DU, a toon:
@DebAsrate: all grammar freaks can appreciate this...
Ha!
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that for anyone misspelling a word, or not using the epitome of "proper" English grammar, that every makes mistakes, and not everyone posting here grew up with English as their native tongue.
And so, all are forgiven 
Probably because it's fresh on their mind, and they still remember all of the rules
And why don't people shut that nonsense-creating software off, anyway? Or do "smart" phones not "allow" it? (My semi-smart-phone makes it an option, not a forced-feature 
)
I think most of the people who use it for any length of time either become dependent on it, or train it to become a useful feature.
I will say I'd rather some autocorrect mishaps from some people I text, than the need of a translator to figure out what the heck they were trying to say.
I'd probably find a hack just to do that if I ever get a "smart" phone. I can't stand software that second-guesses me.
What's also weird about that feature is that someone had to add all those nonsense words to its dictionary. Unless you can tell it to "learn" words, but if it auto-corrects them, then it can't learn anything
Here's instructions for disabling it on the iProducts:
http://www.wikihow.com/Disable-Autocorrect-on-an-iPhone/iPod-Touch
Still my favorite example of grammar-nazism:
there were six different ways. I can't remember much else other than pronunciation. I would have loved to have taken more than just the one year, but the teacher quit and moved away. She was a good teacher, though
And if she saw this movie, likely laughed her head off, too! 
I took two years of Latin in high school and wrestling with all those cases was hard!!!
I was washing dishes with my grandmother once, and she asked me how my Latin studies were going.
Then she started conjugating "Amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant" 
I was amazed.
I'm impressed with your grandmother, too!
She was also blessed with an overactive thyroid, whereas my mother & I had underactive ones. Auto-immune disease. Grandma thought everyone else was lazy.
She grew up outside Kosciusko, MS and was born in 1898. She and my grandfather both had Master's degrees from Mississippi A&M. This was back in the day when very few people went to college, especially women.
They were smart enough to get the hell out and go to Texas.
My dad and my big sister also took Latin, so they said "You're taking Latin because it's good for you!"
Truer words have never been spoken! :
If only I had retained the vocabulary, then I'd know what the hell some DUers were talking about when they post their favorite Latin phrases
on that subject.
I like the one about the Oxford comma being the difference between Stalin and JLK hanging out with strippers or being strippers themselves.
or should I say, love's it!
