• "What ever!"  People using it usually are displaying a lack of both vocabulary or the ability to form a proper responce. Alternatively, they are just lazy and if so they demonstrate a complete of respect for people they make that somment to.
  
• "Going to go!" This is gramatically so incorrectg that it makes my teeth gring when I hear it. You are either going, will be going or have gone.
  
• "Unique" is a word defining something or some one as a one of a kind and yet people apparently do not understand the meaning of the word and add to it by stating "Very Unique" and so on.
  
• Not a wong word but so badly mispronounced in the USA and coppied by the untillegent youth here in Australia. Congratulations mispronounced as Con-grash-ulations instrad of the correct Con-grat-ulations. In some cases I watch such mispronounciations occuring when people are determined to talk through closed teeth instead of opening their mouths and enounciate words properly which also leads to much mispelling.

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ORIGINAL: manxcat

Never heard anyone in the U.S say congrashulations, and i have lived in 17 states and/or traveled in 49 of them. 
quote: Slaves of Bear Cottage may not be the accedemic stars or members of mensa but by jove, they are able to hold intelligent and understandable conversations...
But can they spell any better than you do? just askin'. 

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ORIGINAL: OrionTheWolf

Difference between education and intelligence. So did you have anything to add to the OP, other than to be a member of the spelling police?

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ORIGINAL: manxcat

Never heard anyone in the U.S say congrashulations, and i have lived in 17 states and/or traveled in 49 of them. 
quote: Slaves of Bear Cottage may not be the accedemic stars or members of mensa but by jove, they are able to hold intelligent and understandable conversations...
But can they spell any better than you do? just askin'. 

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ORIGINAL: IronBear

• "Going to go!" This is gramatically so incorrectg that it makes my teeth gring when I hear it. You are either going, will be going or have gone.

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ORIGINAL: BRNaughtyAngel
Well don't ever git yurself a slave from the southern U.S. Iron Bear, cuz we sutherners are notorious for "fixin'" to do all sorts of things.

"I'm fixin' to go to Walmart."

"I'm fixin' to mow the grass."

"I'm fixin' to whup your butt if you don't behave!"

LOL! [:D]

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ORIGINAL: manxcat

Spelling is important as is punctuation, as they can change the meaning of what you are saying.  Misuse of words can also change the meaning, as can mispronunciation.  All have an effect at how a person is perceived.  F.E. Our president mispronounces the word nuclear.  It (among other things, of course) has made him look even more of an idiot. Language and words are powerful, and one can totally lose the message by any and all of the above. 
Many times, someone elses definition of a word can change the whole tenor of a conversation, if one does not realize they are using a word in a different context.  Women speak differently from men, and people from different countries speak differently from each other.  It is difficult enough with all of these differences to ensure clear communication, so it would seem to me that one would a least make the effort not to add in any other errors which could cause confusion.

manxcat