My unpopular opinion:
People that freak out when someone corrects them, or even worse intentionally refuse to improve and use words wrong are more irritating than grammar nazis.
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2024
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Like if you point out that you don't loose the game, you lose the game, people jump over themselves to shit on you instead of, ya know, edit and move on.
I loosed the game 😔
I agree, it shouldn’t be used as a way to slam someone. Point it out if you’re in the middle of a useful response. I would consider this a form of error detection / error correction feedback, because maybe the original poster genuinely doesn’t know. Speaking for myself, I would wonder what the speaker hears in their head when they’re presented with both spellings.
But if we’re playing fast and loose with the rules, then we should also accept ‘luce’ as another alternative. The point here being, how far can we take it before everyone agrees that it’s no longer a reasonable alternative?
I’ve long considered that learning a second language is like learning to play music. So yeah, there’s the precision of classical, versus the freestyle of jazz.
But if you’re playing some vinyl on a turntable and asking others to listen to it while jumping around on the floor next to it, don’t be surprised if people seem distracted when the needle starts to jump around. Was that a glitch, or was it intentional?
Tangent time: around 25 years ago I was reading up on DNS (and BIND) and came across something that stuck with me. I might be paraphrasing, but it went something like “be strict in what you send, and flexible in what you accept”. The context had to do with acceptable DNS names being passed around, and a methodology to improve the odds of mutual success.
Shifting back to being more on topic: I wish I could speak and write at a level far better than I can now. When I hear certain speakers (typically from England) I simultaneously have a great appreciation for their language competence and a regret for my own competence. I do try to be better, although I do fail.
In the end, I’d like to be able to bring others along when I lift myself up.
Love the DNS/BIND metaphor. I'm an avid language learner and share your envy of others in a sense of awe, not jealousy.
Like an instrument, practice makes passable, lol.
Have a nice day!
I agree with this. Correcting one's grammatical error is fine. However, additionally, correcting one's grammatical error as a means to disregard the content of the comment in an argument and/or deem their opinion or perspective false because of said error? Not fine and asinine.
Jacksfilms, this is all your fault.
*People're
To whom it may concern, you should be aware that at this current point in history, certain people are attempting to correct each and every grammatical mistake that has been made in communications they find that have been posted to the world wide web.
People are out there, right now, trying to correct every grammar mistake on the internet.
The Internet needs to be capitalized.
I kno
There doing what now?
*Their
I've come to care about grammar more because bad grammar is one of the easiest ways to spot a scam message.
I'm on the opposite side. I'm trying to inccorect grammar and spelling mistakes.
You may said:
People is out there right now trying to correct every gramar mistake on the internet.
Errybody do it thier own way, I supose. :-P
That's the cool thing about language , if enough people do something for long enough then it starts being right
Out of everything you were ever taught, it's the only thing that works by Tinkerbell rules. If enough people believes something is real. It's real.
Otherwise we'd all still be talking like William Shakespeare
I mean, money works like that too. It's not like we value money because paper is rare, we just all collectively agreed to use it to make exchanges easier
You're saying we're led by the cool kids.
That's so fetch.
You're doing the lords work
Ah ah, *Yro'ue
*Lord's
*Lordys'
*Lourdes
*your
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