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    People who correct insignificant spelling/grammar errors

    Posts: 34,415 Member
    edited January 31 in Chit-Chat
    Seriously, let it go people. You all know what is intended.

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

      You're missing a comma...I'll never tell!
    • 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.
    • 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?
    • Posts: 1,039 Member
      Some people post from their phones......autocorrect is a real *****.
    • Posts: 3,306 Member
      oh FFS.
    • Posts: 1,508 Member
      Some people post from their phones......autocorrect is a real *****.
      Autocorrect should correct those problems, no?
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Posts: 3,306 Member
      I cry fowl, he is mocking me for mocking grammer nazis...
    • Posts: 3,472 Member
      I cry fowl, he is mocking me for mocking grammer nazis...

      *moking

      ...just sayin' :flowerforyou:
    • 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.
    • Posts: 14,025 Member
      You, guys re'ally need 2 jux!let things, go. Spelling, and, grammer, r not, of÷impoart.
    • Posts: 7,512 Member
      show previous quotes

      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.
    • 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
    • Posts: 578 Member
      I'm not a fan of the grammar police!!
    • Posts: 51
      I love this thread!
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Posts: 577 Member
      show previous quotes

      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]
    • 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
    • Posts: 22,834 Member
      This thread is very unaappropriate and has devisivitiness to it.
    • Posts: 4,810 Member
      It's LOSE!!!! :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
    • Posts: 2,042 Member
      Your wrong! Wheel nevar let it go! Nevar!
    • 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!
    • Posts: 16 Member
      irregardless everyone knows what you mean anyway

      I see what you did there.
    • 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:
    • 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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