I admit to being a bit of a spelling and grammar snob, but am not a Nazi about it. I make a lot of mistakes myself. I usually know what the writer intended with the misuse of to and too, etc. What interests me more is how language is changing with the new technologies. Short cuts abound. For example, I see a lot of posts on this forum that begin with something like, "Went to the gun show on Saturday and saw ..." What happened to the personal pronoun? Is it even needed in this case? I find myself doing the same in texts and emails. We used to acknowledge the correct usage of the King's English as an unspoken class identifier, similar to knowing which fork to use at the table, to understand if the person should be in the conversation or at the table. Does the advent of "netspeak" change the rules? Did I make any errors (commas are my downfall) above?
