Entry 006: Facebook foolery

On Facebook, I regularly see people in my mini-feed correcting the grammar mistakes of their friends and acquaintances.  Some people makes posts extolling others for grammar mistakes that they've seen. 

Here's a meme that I saw yesterday, posted by an acquaintance of mine, with a plea for people to remember to use commas:

I did chuckle -- but there are countless memes which deal with this same grammar issue.

The most "liked" response to this Facebook lecture?  This image:

It immediately made me think of this course, and of the Stephen Fry video about self-righteous grammar police.

Then, as if that wasn't enough, there was this very-well liked image, to cap off the whole post:

[image was a portrait of a military officer, with the face of a cute cat, with the question:  "You think grammar is a motherfucking JOKE?!]

Yes!  Yes, I do!