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59 Times People Struggled With Words So Badly, They Cracked Others Up (New Pics)

People tend to get mad at the grammar police online. Yet, sometimespeople's grammarand spelling skills are so atrocious that they're begging to be called out and taught a lesson. According to a 2015 Harris Poll, 80% of Americansconsiderthemselves good spellers.

However, after you scroll through this list, you may find that statistic questionable.Bored Pandahas prepared a selection of funny and equally embarrassing posts where people eitherfell victim to autocorrector skipped grammar day at school. See how a minor mistake can change the vibe of a whole sentence and deliver comedy gold instead of somber, serious news.

Bad grammarcan certainly be funny. Just one comma out of place and a sentence like "Tables are for eating customers only" goes from instructive to ridiculously cannibalistic. It makes you think that people would put a lot of effort into spelling things correctly and puttingpunctuation markswhere they belong. Alas, that isn't always the case.

Ironically, the younger generation is the most irked by grammar mistakes they see in the real world, online, or when texting others. According to the same Harris poll, 74% of people under 35saidthat spelling mistakes on social media were annoying. This may seem surprising, since they're the generation most likely to use abbreviations and are typically associated with laxgrammaronline.

Interestingly, there's also a gender disparity when it comes to who notices grammar mistakes more. Women appear to be more perceptive when spotting bad spelling, with 75% of women saying they often find errors in things like ads, restaurant menus, and store signs. In contrast, 66% of the men in the survey said they spotted grammar mistakes often.

Yet one grammar peeve was consistent among all ages, genders, and professions. English speakers just can't stand it when people can't correctly spell and tell the difference between "their, they're, and there." I have to say, I'm right there with them – and English isn't even my first language!

Different rules apply to texting and messaging online, though. Although only a quarter of Gen Zersadmitthat they use full stops, capital letters, commas, and quotation marks on social media, 69% use correct grammar when texting. Perhaps it's who they are communicating with: texting is often reserved for parents and older people, and social media is how they communicate with peers.

Good grammar matters in the context of dating, too. A 2016 survey from the dating site Zooskshowedthat 48% of people in the dating market consider poor grammar skills a deal breaker in online dating. Interestingly, women seem to have higher standards: 65% said they would stop chatting with a bad speller, and only 60% of men said they pay attention to a prospective partner's grammar.

Still, the majority found obvious spelling and punctuation mistakes to be turn-offs. And it's not just bad grammar that people hate; silly hype words such as "LOL" and "YOLO" were found to drastically decrease response rates.

Our personal lives aren't the only context in which good spelling and punctuation matter. Which CV do you think would be tossed away immediately: one with blatant grammar mistakes or a carefully proofread one? Certified professional résumé writer Drew Roark says that spelling or punctuation mistakes are about more than just grammar knowledge.

"Mistakes on your résumé can expose traits about yourself, which can ultimately keep an employer from offering you a job," Roark explains. "Employers are less concerned about your spelling (knowing you probably just made a typo) and more concerned with the fact that you overlooked an error, which speaks volumes about your tendencies."

What's worse than a bad speller online? Grammar police who love to humiliate those with poor grammar skills and call them out for their mistakes. Research shows, and experts claim that they're not trying to do the world a solid and rid it of grammar mistakes – they're trying to establish their superiority.

According to a 2016 study, introvertsmay bemore prone to correcting the mistakes of others. Apparently, they connect the mistakes to the person's core self, judging their intellect. The researchers also found that the less agreeable the person is, the more likely they are to be members of the grammar police.

A professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, Robert Kurzban,explainedto Slate that the grammar police are looking for ways to make themselves feel better. "When people, especially publicly, correct others' mistakes, a lot of that has to do with signaling to other people," he said. "People are trying to signal their expertise, because being able to identify mistakes indicates that you know more about something than the person who committed the error."

What about you, Pandas? How often do you spot bad spelling and punctuation online and in the messages people send you? Or maybe you're the bad speller, and you feel no shame for it whatsoever? Let us know your experiences when struggling with words in the comments! In the meantime, check out thesehilariously unfortunate names parents have given their babiesthat we wish were spelling mistakes.

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JD Vance warns that extraterrestrials are demons: 'I'm going to get to the bottom of this'

J.D. Vance does not believe that extraterrestrials are aliens from outer space as traditionally imagined.

JD Vance and E.T. in 'E.T.'Credit: Benny Johnson/Youtube;Universal

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"I don't think I don't think they're aliens. I think they're demons," he said on a recent podcast.
Vance is the latest politician to wade into little-green-man discourse, following Donald Trump's demand for the release of the so-called "UFO files," and Barack Obama claiming that aliens are "real," though he hasn't seen them.

Lucifer phone home.

JD Vancehas waded into the extraterrestrial discourse seemingly happening at the upper echelons of American political power with a perspective that is, to say the least, a bit offbeat.

"When I came in, I was obsessed with the UFO files," the vice president told conservative podcasterBenny Johnsonon Friday, referring to the cache of files related to "alien and extraterrestrial life" that President Donald Trumpcalled to releasein February. Vance said that he hasn't had even a "peek" at said files, due to the demands of "the economy and national security and things like that."

But anyway, it might not even matter, because to Vance, aliens as we know them don't even exist: "I don't think they're aliens. I think they're demons."

Vance explained that he believes "celestial beings, who fly around and do weird things to people" are not necessarily otherworldly extraterrestrials in theE.T.orAliensense, as we've come to think of them.

"I think that the desire to describe everything celestial [as] otherworldly, to describe it as aliens — I mean, every great world religion, including Christianity, the one that I believe in, has understood that there are weird things out there. And there are things that are very difficult to explain," he said. "And I naturally go, when I hear about sort of extra-natural phenomenon, that's where I go to, is the Christian understanding."

What is that understanding in relation to little green men who rocket around on flying saucers, mutilating livestock, and airlifting unwitting corn farmers?

"There's a lot of good out there, but there's also some evil out there. And I think that one of the devil's great tricks is to convince people he never existed," Vance explained, paraphrasingThe Usual Suspects' Verbal Kint.

Vance conceded that he has "not been able to spend enough time on this to really understand it," but because he is "more curious than anybody" about aliens, demons, what have you, he vowed: "I've still got three more years as vice president. I will get to the bottom the UFO files."

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TheHillbilly Elegyauthor turned conservative firebrand is the latest politician to weigh in on the potential existence of aliens.

Days before Trump called for the declassification of files related to unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), his predecessor,Barack Obama, confused the massesby claiming on a podcast that aliens are "real, but I haven't seen them." But quickly clarified, "I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!"

JD Vance on 'The Benny Show' podcast March 27Credit: Benny Johnson/Youtube

For what it's worth, EGOT-winnerWhoopi Goldberg claimedon a recent episode ofThe Viewthat aliens are "already here... They've been here for quite some time." And she was onStar Trek!

Perhaps its all a sophisticated promotional campaign forDisclosure Day,E.T.director Steven Spielberg's long-awaited return to the subject matter of little green men. Thefirst teaserfor the film starring Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor dropped in December, and the film is set for release on June 12, 2026.

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