Is bad grammar in style?

Your/you're   it's/its  they're/their     These are three sets of words commonly misused. To any communicator, these mistakes stick out like sore thumbs, and make us twinge. Yes, mistakes happen, everyone does it, but do you correct someone if you spot these mistakes?

Personally, I do. I have been known to comment on grammatical errors on friend's statuses' on facebook; I do it because I love them and do not want them embarrassing themselves by making the same mistake again.

But then I ran across this article, in which the company mentioned takes spelling errors to a new level. It actually glorifies one of the mistakes mentioned above: you're and your. The clothing company has printed a shirt using your, when it should have been you're. On purpose! Sure their target market is teenagers, who are probably the ones committing this grammatical error the most often, but isn't that why we should be correcting them instead of glorifying illiteracy? I think this is a horrible idea that is an insult to the written word.

ANOTHER THING I HATE IS WHEN PEOPLE CAPITALIZE EVERYTHING! It is a trend I see occurring a lot on twitter, facebook and on forums I frequent. The point of capitalizing is to emphasize something. This has the opposite effect when you capitalize the whole sentence, or worse, the whole paragraph. I also find it to be rude. Capitalizing everything is the equivalent of yelling. A particular person on a particular forum I visit does it often. She tries to pass her wisdom to others on the forum and has to compete with hundreds of other posts so she does this to grab attention. It works in the reverse for me, I am not interested in what she has to say because I find it to be rude, it hurts the eyes, and the point she is trying to emphasize only blends in with her long capitalized post, making her posts hard to read.

I remember a case last year in Australia when a employee was fired for capitalizing everything on an email to a client. She wasn't trying to be rude but, it came across as rude to the client, and in the end, this mistake cost her her job.

So let's just all follow the rules and get along.