This word probably gets you thinking about all the language nazis you've encountered while writing scathing emails to your coworkers and what kind of losers they must be to waste time pointing out the differences between "their" and "they're" or outlining the fundamental value of Oxford commas.

Neglecting grammar doesn't make you one of the cool kids, it makes you sound like you dropped out of school in third grade to help pa' work the back forty 'cause the bank was about to foreclose on your farmstead. My sincere apologies to farmers for that metaphor.

I can't, and won't, sit here and give you all the rules of grammar because first, I don't know them all, and second, I've probably got more than a few of the ones I do know wrong. If you read the forward (shame on you if you didn't) you'll know that I'm on the journey too and I don't want my own failings to set you off in the wrong direction. However, I can give you a few basic guidelines and tools that'll minimize most of the worst and obvious errors that are inhibiting your communication.

If you're ready, take a deep breath and turn the page...