People who correct insignificant spelling/grammar errors

jofjltncb6
jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
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Seriously, let it go people. You all know what is intended.

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  • SirBonerFart
    SirBonerFart Posts: 1,185 Member
    irregardless everyone knows what you mean anyway
  • danasings
    danasings Posts: 8,218 Member
    But...but...but... *storms away*
  • Mia_RagazzaTosta
    Mia_RagazzaTosta Posts: 4,885 Member
    Seriously, let it go people. You all know what is intended.

    You're missing a comma...I'll never tell!
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    I still think it's awesome my speed lighting reading abilities allow me to focus on context and not content. God I'm cool.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    I still think it's awesome my speed lighting reading abilities allow me to focus on context and not content. God I'm cool.

    How does that work when posting though? Don't you make more typos because of that ability?
  • Lauren8239
    Lauren8239 Posts: 1,039 Member
    Some people post from their phones......autocorrect is a real *****.
  • _noob_
    _noob_ Posts: 3,306 Member
    oh FFS.
  • InForBacon
    InForBacon Posts: 1,508 Member
    Some people post from their phones......autocorrect is a real *****.
    Autocorrect should correct those problems, no?
  • amandzor
    amandzor Posts: 386 Member
    As I make my living as an Editor, it's hard sometimes to let glaring errors go.

    Usually I just roll my eyes and move on.

    Everyone makes typos, and it's a forum, not a corporate newsletter.
  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
    This are what I been saying alot on this forums. Maybe peeple will hear what you spoke, they not hear I when it was me that righted it.
  • _noob_
    _noob_ Posts: 3,306 Member
    I cry fowl, he is mocking me for mocking grammer nazis...
  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
    I cry fowl, he is mocking me for mocking grammer nazis...

    *moking

    ...just sayin' :flowerforyou:
  • ihad
    ihad Posts: 7,463 Member
    I cry fowl, he is mocking me for mocking grammer nazis...

    LOL!

    The mark is struck good sir!

    Was waiting for you to notice.
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    You, guys re'ally need 2 jux!let things, go. Spelling, and, grammer, r not, of÷impoart.
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    I still think it's awesome my speed lighting reading abilities allow me to focus on context and not content. God I'm cool.

    How does that work when posting though? Don't you make more typos because of that ability?

    Oh yeah that's why I got a big fat D in typing class during high school. Thank you whoever invented backspace.
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    You, guys re'ally need 2 jux!let things, go. Spelling, and, grammer, r not, of÷impoart.

    A British academic, despite having no doubt benefited from his ability to read and write with proficiency, is merrily asserting that such skills are no longer required for kids these days. Sugata Mitra, a professor of educational technology at Newcastle University, argues that good spelling and grammar are "a bit unnecessary … they are skills that were very essential maybe 100 years ago but they are not right now." Mitra says that smartphone and computer technology that corrects our spelling for us has rendered such a skill obsolete, and as for grammar, well, who cares? Mitra suggests students' time would be better spent learning how to text even more awesomer! LOL!

    http://now.msn.com/sugata-mitra-professor-says-spelling-grammar-lessons-obsolete


    although not be able to complete form sentence bad thing may be
  • RacerX_14
    RacerX_14 Posts: 578 Member
    I'm not a fan of the grammar police!!
  • cowgirlupkelly
    cowgirlupkelly Posts: 51
    I love this thread!
  • action_figure
    action_figure Posts: 511 Member
    Seriously, let it go people. You all know what is intended.

    I never correct them unless the original person is being a real jerk. Like, insulting people. This one guy called some girl a "dike", and I had to be a pompous *kitten* and point out that the word he was looking for was "*kitten*". Sometimes you just gotta put the smackdown on someone.
  • bsix3
    bsix3 Posts: 291
    This are what I been saying alot on this forums. Maybe peeple will hear what you spoke, they not hear I when it was me that righted it.

    ^^^^^^^^ exactly whut he said....exactly.
  • SerenaFisher
    SerenaFisher Posts: 2,170 Member
    This is much better with woodchuck hard cider.


    No. I didn't log it. I lied and said it was Budweiser.
  • saschka7
    saschka7 Posts: 577 Member
    Seriously, let it go people. You all know what is intended.

    I never correct them unless the original person is being a real jerk. Like, insulting people. This one guy called some girl a "dike", and I had to be a pompous *kitten* and point out that the word he was looking for was "*kitten*". Sometimes you just gotta put the smackdown on someone.
    That was you? :laugh: I read that thread and enjoyed your answer; it wasn't pompous at all, just pointing out the truth. High-Five! :drinker: [okay, maybe not a high-five with a beer stein]
  • annakow
    annakow Posts: 385 Member
    those people have no life or they don't understand you or they are very unhappy in life, so looking for other people misteakes
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    This thread is very unaappropriate and has devisivitiness to it.
  • Cadori
    Cadori Posts: 4,810 Member
    It's LOSE!!!! :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
  • Codename_Duchess
    Codename_Duchess Posts: 2,042 Member
    Your wrong! Wheel nevar let it go! Nevar!
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    Two nights ago I laid/lie/lay(?) in bed pondering starting a thread titled... "The English Majors' Thread".

    It was to start out with the most epic prose delineating perfectly instructions on posting in such thread only using the most accurate grammar and punctuation. Then, as I envisioned this thing of beauty I saw it derailing into a disaster of infiniquotes proportions with arguments of syntax and pretentiously big words spinning into language ever more lofty with each reply.

    As the thread devolved into it's last two posters who were the only two left who could discern the obscure rules and literary references slung as insults my dream died as slowly as the thread itself as I drifted off to sleep. The end. :frown:


    ETA: See, I even had to edit that!
  • kikujiro
    kikujiro Posts: 16 Member
    irregardless everyone knows what you mean anyway

    I see what you did there.
  • StinkyWinkies
    StinkyWinkies Posts: 603 Member
    Two nights ago I laid/lie/lay(?) in bed pondering starting a thread titled... "The English Majors' Thread".

    It was to start out with the most epic prose delineating perfectly instructions on posting in such thread only using the most accurate grammar and punctuation. Then, as I envisioned this thing of beauty I saw it derailing into a disaster of infiniquotes proportions with arguments of syntax and pretentiously big words spinning into language ever more lofty with each reply.

    As the thread devolved into it's last two posters who were the only two left who could discern the obscure rules and literary references slung as insults my dream died as slowly as the thread itself as I drifted off to sleep. The end. :frown:


    ETA: See, I even had to edit that!


    I was told by a 90y/o English Major, who wrote for newspapers most of her life, that People Lie they don't lay (or lain, laid). I thought that it is a very good pun and said so. I will never misuse lay, lie, lye when it comes to people again.

    Oh, and slap my mouth, I used "irregardless" in a sentence today..for shame, for shame! :blushing: :cry:
  • suziepoo1984
    suziepoo1984 Posts: 915 Member
    its a pain in the *kitten*. Language is just so we can communicate with each other. As long as we are able to understand whats being said, i really dont know what the whole point is about!!! Whenever i now post anything, i relook a 100 times just so that my grammer is not "incorrect"(to the best of my ability anyway)

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