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Dear the internet:

Time for a lesson on grammatical pet peeves! Yay!
Here are the ones that set Pietro into a rampage:

Noob: by stressy mcsteress, stress XP
Me: huh?
Noob signed off at 5:18:56 PM.
You see, I am confused by this. What is by stressy mcstress stress? Me? A cow? Delving further, we realize, the noob in question needs to be using bye; a homophone, but by adding that e to the end, we know you're giving a signal that you're leaving, rather than indicating something is beside something else! There's three different ways to spell this, so let's give an example of each!
Bye: a gesture of departure. "Bye!" said the dog as it left.
By: indication of location. "It's by the sink."
Buy: to purchase. "I will buy dem shoes."
Bai: Not one at all! surprise! but, usually (also) used as a gesture of departure.


Noob: theres alot
Now, we're going to skip on past the particularly obvious need for an apostrophe, and get down on spelling: "alot". What is alot? Do you mean "a lot"? Do you mean "allot"? Remember, noobs: allot is one word, a lot is two!


Noob: your going out?
My going out what? Let's break this one down:
Your: implies ownership, i.e.: your mom, your cat, your next door neighbor.
You're: implies you are, i.e.: you're having steak, you're wearing that?, you're a jerk.
If you're (there's another good example!) ever unsure which to use, say it aloud, and think of the meaning: "you're stinky dog". My are stinky dog? Wrong! "your stupid". My stupid what?


That's all the ones I feel like breaking down. But there are so, SO many more. ~__~;