For a while now, I have noted that there have been grammar nazis partaking in my posts to take jabs at me because of what word I used that opposed what word they think I should use. These prissy snobs are the kind of people whose lives would be interrupted over the tiniest things despite there being bigger things to worry about.
Nobody gives a shit about your over-correctness. It just makes you a target to be blocked. In fact, it inspires me now to deliberately make these so-called grammar mistakes just to piss you off. Oh, I use ‘is’ than ‘are’? Well fuck you, I’m going to continue using ‘is’ over ‘are’ just because I know now it makes you internally screech. Don’t like that I use ‘constantly’ than ‘continually’? Same deal, cry me a river, little grammar nazi baby.
it inspires me now to deliberately make these so-called grammar mistakes
Nah, fuck your petty anti-intellectualism.
Don’t write yourself off, learn to read and write.
I used the word ‘deliberately’. Oh! You don’t know the word ‘deliberately’! Therefore your reply is irrelevant! And you say I’m being petty! Look at you, telling me to read and write when you can’t even do it either! Hypocrite!
Oh! You don’t know the word ‘deliberately’!
Sound like something a grammer nazi would say.
Oh the irony…
It’s a shame to dismiss the mastery of language as mere pedantry, when in fact it’s a tool for precision and respect for those who read us. In an age when automatic correctors make writing accessible to everyone (including those with challenges like severe dysorthographia) deliberately choosing approximation is to miss an opportunity: the chance to rise above, to communicate without ambiguity, and to show that we value our audience.
Language is not a cage. It’s a bridge. Why settle for the easy path when, with a little care, we can open doors?
English has a hard enough time being exact as it is, so I do agree with your statement.
I doubt it is the fact they are corrected(using my perspective as I do not know this person), rather HOW they are corrected. Sometimes I see someone correct another using good natured wit and humour, being polite, and the target of said criticism takes it well and learns, other times they are quite unfriendly and harsh. I don’t mind correction that is polite, I will absolutely ignore the advice if rendered harshly and condescendingly.
This goes for other situations as well, not gonna go into them as several are landmines, but the approach to correction needs to be more friendly than aggressive.
I totally agree. Criticism should lift people up, just like the way it’s delivered. But meeting rudeness with more rudeness just doesn’t strike me as productive. No matter how unfair the original jab was.
…what word I used that opposed what word…
I think you mean which word, lol
Oh, I use ‘is’ than ‘are’?
Rather than.
There’s are two ways to deal with criticism:
Note the suggestion and do better next time.
Lash out at others for making you feel inferior.
One of these is much more mature than the other.
Being an illiterate asshat makes one an even bigger target to be blocked. Especially if you can’t be understood due to your poor grammar and spelling in spaces that communication happens entirely via text.
It’s not about you, but rather about those whom you teach.
I usually respond to a grammar nazi with ‘dats much more gooder’.
Grammer Nazis, you say? TIL correcting grammatical mistakes is on the same level as slaughtering Jews.
Ik it’s annoying, but grow up dude, you ain’t the main character.
OP is just using the established name for these busy bodies.
