grammatically correctedness

"kill the light." i remember the first time that sentence was brought to my attention. i was hanging out with my best friends in junior high, a sleepover actually (even though we swore we weren't gay), and i asked my friend to shut his bedroom lights off so i can go to sleep. the fuckers laughed at me and said "that's not how you say it, marcCCCCC." emphasis on the hard "c" since i hadn't fully lost my accent then. i've had an extreme complex about the english language and grammar ever since. now i'm a writer and editor for a magazine. go figure. i'm currently reading the book "eats, shoots and leaves" as a refresher course on the subject. although i'm somewhat of a stickler - someone who's gifted with the "seventh sense" of cringing everytime wrong punctuation is used - i still catch myself wrongly (?) translating tagalog into english.
btw, there's a very interesting special on E right now about child stars and how fucked up their lives are. younger sister from family matters did porn. yikes!