Grammar, people!

One of these days I will admit to the futility of the fight. But not today.

“Follow your heart and let your fate decide.don’t ignore what you are feeling because your not responsible for it.” – jessa lizardo

That is written as posted, with no space after the first period and incorrect capitalization.

This is so bad, I have to provide a link.

http://boardofwisdom.com/togo/Quotes/ShowQuote?msgid=426364#.V9rJwCErKM8

I wondered, “Who is this Jessa Lizardo, and why does she say things that don’t make sense?” Search shows many Jessa Lizardos, so I could not apply blame to a specific one.

But, why does someone with no sense of observation, let alone grammar, get paid for posting stupid stuff? The poster writes “you are,” and then busts the thing by not recognizing the need for the contracted version, “you’re.”

Here is another from Lizardo: “Its just hard to believe in your enemy.” No kidding? Let’s assume for the sake of argument, that if you believe in someone, he/she cannot be an enemy.

Oh, and the first word should be "It's."

A person schooled in today’s grammar

An insurance company cut my brother-in-law’s Medicare Part B coverage when John moved from Texas to Florida. OK. Insurance companies pretty much cut insurance when someone moves from a state, but the moving was not the reason given. The company said it did not have an office in this part of Florida. The insurance company is called Blue something, and I'm fairly certain the company has offices everywhere.

My wife called the company to get coverage re-established. She talked to a young woman who, my wife said, “was reading from a script.”

After taking information, the woman said, “I will give this to an agent and they will contact you.”

“He will contact me,” my wife said.

“What?”

“He will contact me.”

“That is what I said.”

“No,” my wife said, “you said ‘they’ will contact me.”

“That’s what I said. They will contact you.”

“Right,” my wife said. “It’s only English, so what does it matter?”

Here is a stupid

“Every woman needs a man who will ruin their lipstick and not their mascara.”

Since the writer said “woman,” why couldn’t she/he say “her” and not “their?”

This is from a newly-begun story, Travels with Baker:

“He took a breath and let it out noisily. She’s dead, I’m dead, the robber’s dead. Well, I was dead. Still am, as far as the other me is concerned. I get dead and then I wake up here, what, five days ago? Four walks ago, five at sundown today. Five days ago and I haven’t seen man or beast. Or woman, either. He laughed. Maybe I don’t have to consider any gender non-identification any more. Maybe I can use the gender non-specific pronoun “he” in conversation. Maybe I won’t hear anybody refer to one person as “they.” Aaaanndd maybe I’ll find out what I’m supposed to do here.”

(Yes, that is the way I will realize return to grammatical sense. Not long ago I said to my wife, “One of these days I will wake up and nothing will hurt.” She said, “You will be dead.”)