Am not a grammar snob

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LMAO ITA.

Someone recently "corrected'"my use of "your" to "you're" and got it wrong on another site recently.

Hilarity ensued.

I'm not a "Nazi" about it when it comes to other people's use of the English language. There's no telling who people are, where they are from, whether English is their native tongue, or what cultural background might influence the way they speak and write. As long as I an understand them, that's all that matters to me.

When I speak and write myself, I do try to structure things as properly as I can, but at times I do break the "rules" intentionally, in favor of being clearly understood. Sometimes the proper structure of sentences, and even at time proper word usage is, in my opinion, inefficient.

I'm a huge fan of Mark Twain, who broke the rules all the time by using common speech and dialects. I've never had any trouble understanding anything he wrote. Just because I'm not a famous writer doesn't mean I have no right to break rules as famous writers do. I don't care what my high school English teachers told me.

Clarity and understanding are all that matter to me. Not what some stuffy people sitting in some private meeting decide the rules ought to be for the next edition of Little Brown Handbook.

My grammar and spelling is ok.

Are you seriously suggesting that I had to double check the sentence "You clearly aren't"?

Now, I do double check forum posts I write (very much so if I make a "comeback"), but not when it's so basic.

yes.
you're probably breaking into a sweat now that we've reached multiple sentences

That is not working but the all caps style is quite annoying visually so you're achieving something with the readability brigade!

The caps were the backup measure should the initial plan fail

Me iz not got da problem wiv me gramma innit. Or me spellin. Me don't go correctin uvvers eiver. Y dont know if deyz got a problem wiv da writing izzit?

But seriously though I am a very good speller but not so good at grammar. I still somehow managed to get an A in GCSE English though...

Good plan!

Not really. I just read it once after I have written everything down. It might not be grammar mistakes that I discover, but rather better wording for what I am trying to express.

I am French and I don't have much difficulty with grammar. I make some mistakes when I do not pay attention, but I can notice them if I take enough time to do so.

So French is ok for me, but I understand that it can be very difficult, for example for someone who has another mother language. I would not say that French grammar is infamous though. It is just a bit complicated, but quite logical. But French spelling is not logical, as English spelling.

I have horrible spelling, when I was younger I never passed a spelling test, except for one because I cheated lol.

Based on my memories from High School, my grammar wasn't on point either. Wasn't flat out terrible per se, but it wasn't great.

"it's a damned poor mind, that can't think of more than one way to spell a word!"

Your and you're are easy, they shoulda known better than to give you a rough time. Who and whom are a real pain in the neck! (I think it has to do with prepositions)

As for me, if I try harder I can clean up my grammar. The problem is, if I do that then I cannot be conversational on forums. I prefer to let myself get away with things like extra commas... triple periods, and the like! I think of it as a more-sophisticated version of txt speak U NO?

To whom are you addressing? (Just wanted to use "whom" in a sentence trololo).

Anyway, it looks like you quoted me saying that I messed up "you're" and "your", which is pretty hilarious.