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I am anal about grammar. I am completely anal about people saying 'more easier' and 'more neater' and 'more busier'. Like, 'oh no, you don't do it like that, you do this way, it's more easier!', or, 'hey hey, she's more neater than you!', 'this is a more neater way to do it!', 'this is more cheaper!', and et cetera. I get so irritated with it. Sometimes I'll tell them, yeah, it's easier, I know. Or I'll say, is it really cheaper?

It's so annoying and snobbish, this attitude of mine, I know. But I really can't help it. I don't point it out, mostly, and it's not to say I speak/write perfect grammar. It's just that whenever it happens, it rakes across my nerve-endings.

At one point in my life, maybe in my adolescent years, I added "no bad English" to my checklist for potential-guy-dates in that very amateurish fashion.

You know how some things you read just sticks in your brain years and years and years after? Well, once I read this random thing that said, you know you don't care about this guy anymore when he's pleading with you to stay after you initiate a breakup, and all you can hear are his grammatical errors. It's so hilarious. I tested it out, in fact. Or maybe it was like a self-fulfilling prophecy. I know I was semi-dating this guy and I was trying to tell him that it's just not going to work out. I just don't like him in that way. And he was pleading with me and on the verge of tears and you could see all the emotions in his eyes, but all I heard were his horrendous grammar and syntax problems. That thing I read flashed neon in my head and I'm like, wow, so this is how it feels like. [[As to all the 'emotions in his eyes', I've always thought he followed a romance-formula-sheet, so I thought that was part of what he was doing, so I'm not being cruel here by snubbing his tears with my nitpicking of his English.]]

Anyways.

Check this out. I just took it.