You just gave me an idea for a cellphone game. You find some writing and take a photo of it, and the app reads the picture and plays all letters A-F it sees as notes in the instrument of your choice. Then you compete with your friends to see who can make the best tune. I call it a MIDI OCR game.

Sounds like you are a victim of books ;)
By the way - I'm a big fan of "similar but different" meanings for some Czech/Polish words and sentences ;) I am often in Cieszyn and I have friends from both: Cieszyn and Český Těšín. Those friends sometimes gives me some funny examples of different meanings for very similar words in Czech and Polish :) - for example you wouldn't be happy if you will buy "čerstvý chléb" in Poland ;). You could be also surprised if you would ask for "jahody" ;)
From the other hand once I saw funny situation when one Polish woman told to Czech woman that her perfume "ładnie pachną" ;) - Czech woman were probably aware of meaning of Polish word "pachnie", but the face expression of the Polish woman was priceless when she realized that in Czech the meaning is a "little bit" different ;)

Live and life are the ones that annoy me. Then again it's more about my hatred for my own native language. I mean who in their right mind designs something with so many similar sounding words.

Not to mention if you use ! and ? together it matters what order they are in. Meaning ?! isn't the same as ?!.

Hahaha +1

People who get your and you're mixed up upset me greatly.

it's instead of its is very common too. Unfortunately 's is added to nouns to make a possessive form, so people forget that for the pronoun the apostrophe shouldn't be there.

The Dublin Airport parking ticket had this mistake too. I wrote them an e-mail and they said they'll correct it. It took them a few months to do it though. Since Spetmenber, it's been correct.

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And of course I'm a big fan of The Fucking Grammar Lesson.

Sage fucking advice!

I'm astonished to say it, but I kinda miss Licurg's grammar policing.

Nope, doesn't bother me. Your/you're makes my blood boil, but using "an" instead of "and" sounds like good and propah chav-talk to me, bruv! Either that, or someone's missing a D on his keyboard.

Huh, interesting to hear that illiteracy now affects ticket machines as well. ;)
Thanks for having that fixed!

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When a letter (or apostrophe) is missing, two letters (one right handed and the other left handed on a keyboard) swap places, or a letter is changed with another one adjacent to it on a keyboard, I try to give the benefit of the doubt and assume it's a typo rather than a mistake. Does happen to me when touch typing.

This unfortunately includes notorious mistakes, such as missing apostrophes or i and e swapped (theif, wierd...)

As such, I'm more forgiving to its instead of it's than the other way round. Similarly, youre replacing you're is a lesser sin than your replacing you're.

The strangest phonetic replacement I've seen is writing are instead of our. "Are objective is to capture the flag before the other team does, while at the same time defending are castle from attacks". Know a guy who did it regularly.

Haha. This one is new to me. I've seen Unreal Torment a few times though.

I can't help but think that "specifies a fucking location" means it points to the location where fucking occurs. If you are to give a lesson then don't be ambiguous yourself!
I thought it was spelled like that for the longest time!

Since this seems to be a discussion on grammar now, I'm surprised that nobody has blamed the "would of" phrasing on the increasing use of contractions, hence the original "would've" -- which, of course, sounds like the offending term that many people use!