XK9:

I could tell you that being uneducated is not the same as being ignorant; that the lack of education is not the lack of intelligence. What good would it do? You've already manifested your ignorance.

You sound horribly tiny minded there, XK9.

I learned to type on a manual typewriter. I was taught to use two spaces after a period. In penmanship, I was taught to leave a space, proud of the average, after each period. Nowadays, it's standard to leave one space behind a period and to use a greatly diminished number of commas. We all got along just fine with a little more white space in the text and, I think, we all get along just fine with a little less white space in the text. If each sentence was separated from its fellows by a hard return, we'd all understand each other just as well. People who get all "teacher said" about these matters usually have little to communicate.

Language has been going to hell in a hand basket since the first caveperson grunted. Despite all the naysayers, we always manage to communicate as well as we ever have. When people correct, they are just trying point out their own "superior intellect." It's a bit pathetic and it ignores the fact that there are a hell of a lot of people that are much smarter than you or I that have terrible grammar. It's a cheap little ego trip for the mediocre.