May the gods have mercy on your soul, for I will show none

By D M

30 Nov

I just had an interaction with someone where they spelled ‘fun’, phun.

Someone has gotten so fucked up lazy that now it’s better to spell a 3 letter word with 4? I think I have to invent a new swear word for how stupid that is.

I really want humanity to die out now.

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14 Responses for "May the gods have mercy on your soul, for I will show none"

Zandra November 30th, 2007 at 11:07 am 1
That rant is as good as Kerry’s LOL rant!
Kerry G. November 30th, 2007 at 11:18 am 2
That’s just phucked.
D M November 30th, 2007 at 1:16 pm 3
You shall pay for that.
edgeplot November 30th, 2007 at 3:50 pm 4
That’s just stoopid.
TonjaD November 30th, 2007 at 3:56 pm 5
But dEe eMm, spelling fun, phun is way more phunner.
TonjaD November 30th, 2007 at 11:04 pm 6
No, seriously, I really hate it when people (although it does actually make the word shorter.) spell tonight, tonite (How lazy must you be to use 6 letter word in place of a 7 letter word?). I also detest when people write donut for doughnut, (How often do you write this word that you’d need to use a shorter version? Unless you work at Top Pot of course, then disregard my last statement.) Please, even this program is telling me that the lengthier spelling is wrong.
Aaron December 1st, 2007 at 7:15 am 7
Worst spelling pet peeve: the proliferation of unnecessary apostrophes in the words “its.” And unfortunately, those apostrophes seem to be creeping into plurals as well, ie “the dog’s ran around the yard.” GAAAAAH! Lay off the punctuation, people!
Toftie December 1st, 2007 at 12:00 pm 8
First, isn’t tonite the way the British spell it? Like colour? Um, maybe not. Maybe I just told myself that so it would be easier to accept it.
Secondly, I think it’s fucking hilarious that the spellchecker told you doughnut was wrong. That means it’s taking over the world.

Remember how as kids we used to say “ain’t ain’t a word if it ain’t in the dictionary” but now every word is in there it seems. We have no legitimate resource to turn to anymore. Is this good or bad?
Toftie December 1st, 2007 at 12:02 pm 9
By the way, I love the title of this post. Is that a quote from something?
D M December 1st, 2007 at 1:04 pm 10
I occasionally use ‘tonite’ but not often. I do, however use donut, in part b/c the Word spellcheck says it’s wrong when I say doughnut.

Those little scolding red lines apparently mean something to my psyche.
D M December 1st, 2007 at 1:05 pm 11
I usually get my apostrophes right-but I’ve discovered I use way too many commas, so I’m trying to curtail that.
D M December 1st, 2007 at 1:06 pm 12
It’s taken from a mishmash of references, most likely videogames and movies.
TonjaD December 1st, 2007 at 3:23 pm 13
Yeah, I have to admit I have incorrectly added an apostrophe to its, if I’m tired. I’m an over generalizer on the commas, too. Why is it that it’s very irritating when people forget punctuation, namely apostrophes, but even more maddening when they put them in unnecessarily?
Aaron December 2nd, 2007 at 2:21 pm 14
I immediately assumed it was from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but then I pulled my copy off the shelf and checked, and it seems the phrase I was thinking of was “God’s mercy on you swine!”, which Thompson yells at two Marines right after taking a huge hit of amyl nitrite.