Word Rant

I want to know who was the first smarty-pants to put con-GRAD-ulations on a greeting card. Because I would like to shoot them. I see it everywhere. Not the least on people's Facebooks.

Example:

Shirly-Bob-Su is engaged!
Georgy-Boy says: congradulations

ARGH!! I want to make a comment correcting them, even if them is someone I don't know. I just can't handle how that spelling has become so mainstream that many people honestly think that's the way it's spelled. So mostly I make a comment using the word spelled correctly hoping Georgy-Boy will see and have a sudden epiphany and never make that mistake again.

But I'm getting tired of being subtle. Now that it's graduation season I just know I'm going to be seeing it over and over and over again and my already fried grammar nerves are just going to start sending high-voltage messages everywhere.

And it won't stop there - it will attack the "u"s (as in: hey u) and the lack of capitalization (i'm from buffalo) and overusage of punctuation (yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and overusage of letters within a word (i love u soooooooooooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), etc.

I think Facebook should have a grammarbot that randomly fixes people's grammar in their posts/comments/ etc. And if it's so bad that it's unable to translate it to fix it, it can just delete it.