Does anyone else have a freak out because of bad grammar?

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I'm okay with bad grammar, and I love improper grammar when it makes speaking or writing more convenient or more logical. For example, "their" instead of "his" or "his or her" as a generic possessive pronoun. That one should be adopted into the official English grammar rules.

While bad grammar is certainly a pet peeve of mine, I don't "freak out".

I can have bad spelling and gramar. I try hard. for some people it is very hard.

I have to be a little more tolerant about bad grammar because of where I live. I'm in a rural area of East Texas and there are lots of people here who are riding the edge of illiteracy.

On the other hand, poor spelling drives me nuts! I've been known to go into stores and tell them about a sign in their windows had misspellings. I catch typos in books and magazines all the time. There's really no excuse for that kind of thing anymore with spell check and so on available on most computers.

The whole correcting thing is a problem I have as well. I tend to correct people on facts. My theory is that they should want to know the correct answer so that they don't embarrass themselves when telling the story to someone else. But they don't see it like that, and believe that I'm being condescending.

I used to do that but learnt not to.

Auto correct does not exist in everything. I work as a CAD modeller and have to produce drawings of the models and assemblies for manufacture and there is no spell checker in the program we use (despite it costing thousands of pounds to lease) so I was either making mistakes because of bad spelling or because as my technical director explained being dyslexic means that I probably have problems with back on white on screens as it make it harder to see and read (I was missing very obvious double presses of the same key). But he also said that they use pink screen filters as this helps, so I found a program that does it in the computer for me and it's much better now as I was getting headaches.

I don't cringe at bad grammar on the Internet, because I have bad spelling and grammar myself.

I keep my "Grammar Nazi" qualifications up-to-date, but I do not use them often.

I'm gunna give up on proper grammer in forum posts because I belive it doesn't matter at all. I'm not writing a blog post...im not writing an article...im not writing anything that important...what I do write will be lost in the void of the internet anyways. What does it matter.

I am so sick of editing my posts anyways. This one I haven't edited.

Bother you?

providing your meaning is put across it does not really matter in informal communication.

exactly...just as in conversation. It doesn't always come out perfectly