Why Does This bother Me So Much?

[dogriver]

I don't understand why this bothers me so very, very much, but it does. I'm seeing, particularly among blind people, a total and utter disregard for the word "an". People just right "a", even if the next sound afterwards is a vowel sound. Every time I read it, it makes me want to yell!

Comments

[toonhead.livejournal.com]

People are gonna talk how they're gonna talk, man. Don't sweat the small stuff.
Seriously, I'm an English major and sometimes the way I see people spelling on the net gets on my nerves, but it's a passing thing. Is it worthy of an LJ entry...see? I did it right there. My biggest prob is with usage of different spellings of words. For some reason, when I want to say the word "r i g ht", I always go for the word "w r i t e" and then I catch myself and fix it. In fact, I did it while writing this very comment. It's just an incorrect usage thing. As someone else said if that's all that's bothering you, I would say that you're doing incredibly well. As for English deteriorating? It may be, but I do my part by at least atempting to write somewhat in telligently.