I'm allergic to grammatical errors

I love Cyanide & Happiness. It's a brilliant web comic. Between that and xkcd, I can keep myself entertained for hours. It makes a great break when you've spent the day read and rereading other people's work. Every now and then you just have to laugh.

One of my freelancer groups posted the following comic about grammar allergies. I can relate.

Word aversion

Some friends of mine have noted a particular aversion to the word “moist”. It's not something I share but decided to do a bit of research and found the following.

Word aversion: “a feeling of intense, irrational distaste for the sound or sight of a particular word or phrase, not because its use is regarded as etymologically or logically or grammatically wrong, nor because it’s felt to be over-used or redundant or trendy or non-standard, but simply because the word itself somehow feels unpleasant or even disgusting.” - University of Pennsylvania linguistics professor Mark Liberman

Lessons in punctuation from The Big Bang Theory

So true...

Contradicting contranyms

I recently stumbled upon the word “contronyms” — words that are their own opposites or antonyms. The contronym (also spelled “contranym”) goes by many names, including “auto-antonym,” “antagonym,” “enantiodrome,” “self-antonym,” “antilogy” and “Janus word” (from the Roman god of beginnings and endings, often depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions). 

Words that are commonly misspelled

When I read this and I'm like "YES!" and then I see the word "behavior" and a little part of me dies inside...

Quote

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3