Writer's Block: Just stop, already!

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Since tomatoe18 mentioned a spelling error, I'm gonna go with the same thing ;)

First of all, the whole your/you're and they're/there/their issue always bugs me. I get that it happens when you're writing fast, but in a fic? Shouldn't happen!

Secondly, "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less". This is one that is also used in movies and it just bugs me because it doesn't make sense. Look:

If you "could care less" about, say, peanuts means that there IS something that interests you even less than peanuts. With this expression, however, you want to express that there is nothing that interests you less than peanuts; that peanuts are the least of your worries. So you need to use "could NOT care less" because otherwise... it's just wrong. Okay? >.>

Also, Gustav Schafer instead of Gustav Schäfer used to bug me like whoa until I found out that some keyboards don't have the "Trema" (two little dots) to put on letters.

EDIT: Also, Finnegan instead of Finnigan. I know that Finnegan with an "e" exists, but Seamus's name is the "i" version.

There are other SPaG things that bug me but I can't think of them right now.