For all intensive purposes, I'm an idiot

For all intensive purposes? For all INTENSIVE purposes? What the hell was I thinking?

If you ask me what my talents are I'll tell you I don't really have any. And it's true. I'm just sort of okay at a handful of things. But if you ask me what my strengths are I'll tell you I'm good with words. Spelling, writing, editing, proofreading.

I like to think of myself as intelligent, and don't think other people would disagree. So when I crafted an email to my future stepmother-in-law, who just happens to be a lawyer, and more intelligent than I, you can imagine my horror when I realized I'd made myself sound like a complete idiot. To quote myself, I'd written, "For all intensive purposes..." What followed is not important here. What's important is the fact that I'd written something so ridiculous. This sort of thing would make me cringe if I had read it somewhere else. I mean I'm the type of person who will refuse to eat at a restaurant if there are too many typos on the menu. Seriously, I've walked out because the menu was so offensive to my English sensibilities.

Perhaps this is a type of grammar-snob karma coming back to bite me. For all those times I'd laughed at some poor idiot for not knowing how to spell, or for using a word in the wrong context, I'd now made a fool of myself.

Most likely, now someone is going to make it their mission to point out every typo in my posts. So for all intents and purposes, I welcome your criticisms, as it seems grammar-snob karma has deemed me an appropriate target.