Correcting people's grammar - acceptable?

pigpen

Jagraf wrote: »

I suppose it depends who thinks they have a right to tell someone they are wrong. Perhaps if something is illegal, or there is a safety issue, or in the workplace etc.

In this sceario someone is just pacifying themselves, scratching an itch, they are not trying to help someone else.

indeed, which is why I ignore it on posts because people have different abilities and disabilities, different levels of education and some have none at all, it is impossible to tell. If it is an advertisement for a business such as a logo or flyer, it is helpful to check for grammatical errors and also instances where the spellcheck has missed the wrong word being used because the 'typo' is an actual word, planning/planning as the example I used earlier.

Picking posts to pieces just because you know best is just plain mean.. but there are times I could cry reading some of them.

duchy

I wouldn't say to anyone |You are ugly" as beauty is in the eye of the beholder .....by the same count I wouldn't call someone "dumb" or uneducated because they use too instead of two or their when there is correct.

They might be dyslexic, they may have had a poor education due to illness or a family break up or simply parents who unlike my own didn't care about education. They might be regarded as dumb by someone who had a good or even just adequate education but they could be more literate than their own peers -it's all relative.

So long as a post is comprehensible the odd spelling or grammatical error doesn't make me think less of the poster- Insufferable arrogance that it's their way or the highway is another matter !!

pollypenny

I gave up correcting spelling and grammar errors when I stopped being paid to do so. :cool:

chucknorris

pollypenny wrote: »

I gave up correcting spelling and grammar errors when I stopped being paid to do so. :cool:

Exactly, If I get paid to do it, why should i do it for free? So I don't. Anyway I'm signing out now, have a good night everyone.

chucknorris

fizz wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

:rotfl: So far over your head:rotfl:


fizz.x

Yet it is you, not I, who seems to have completely misread the situation :rotfl:

System

Correcting people's grammar - acceptable?

No its condescending.

Must admit sometimes it bugs me too but i have my own faults. Take for example i never type a capital letter for 'I'. I cant be bothered to be honest, its just one of my annoying little quirks.

Another one i have is when i spell believe. I always spell it beleive. Even my spell check tells me its wrong but i cant be arsed to change it and i never remember as i type it.

I look at is as if i have my own quirks, who am i to correct other people?

teddysmum

It is annoying , especially having studied English Language, to read or hear errors, but it is best to hold your tongue, unless the offender is causing offence for another person.


However,I have to frequently shout at the tv because of the number of times people incorrectly pronounce 'kilometre'.


A kilogram is 1000 grams and a kilometre is 1000 metres, so they should match in pronunciation, (ie kilo-gram and kilo-metre),but the latter is pronounced as 'kilometer', as in 'barometer'.


Apparently, it is now acceptable to allow the US spelling of 'metre' as 'meter', but an 'ometer' measures something and is not a measurement.


The use of 'two times', instead of 'twice', also makes me cringe.


PS: This site doesn't like words ending in 'meter', flagging them as spelling mistakes.

System

It is annoying , especially having studied English Language, to read or hear errors, but it is best to hold your tongue, unless the offender is causing offence for another person.

Not everyone has studied English language though so they probably wouldnt know any better.

Mupette

Sheer pettyness.

I live with MS, a brain disease that has destroyed my memory my language and spelling.

I people want to correct what i write carry on, I have far better things to do with my life, and if you still want to get stroppy then walk in my shoes and then come and apologise to me after

suki1964

Peter333 wrote: »

Yeah OK then.....




Formulating an answer? What does that even mean? :rotfl:

Well for me that means reading the information, understanding, thinking of my reply, then spending ages - perhaps an hour or more writing, re writing, checking the spellings, even having to use word to have a guess at the word I'm looking for,before hitting send

Quite often by time I have done all that, the thread I'm interested in has moved on so far I'm left behind and I delete my post

I'm not thick or stupid or lazy, I even got a CSE in English many moons ago. I think if I were to take it again with there being less emphasis on spelling and grammar I would get a pretty decent grade.

However when I took it, computers were big old things the size of warehouses and poor grammar and spelling lost you marks, no matter how much you understood and tried to get your point across

I struggle daily with the written word. Most people are surprised when they realise I'm am dyslexic as no one realises until I have a pen and paper. As I said in a previous post, home pc's have allowed me to communicate in a way that I couldn't before

So when I get something wrong - spelling or punctuation or grammar - and I'm pulled on it for no other reason then someone being smart - I'm mortified

Which is why when someone else is as bad or worse then me, even though my eyes will bleed and I think why not go through the agonies I go through to make a post, I say nowt and do my best to reply if I have anything worth adding