Why do grown ups adults take the piss spelling /grammar

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Not just here but other social media places to. Why do people feel the need to correct people's spellings and grammar or even take the piss out of it. There are so many people that claim to be intelligent and cleaver. But yet they don't seem to have the brains to understand dyslexia and other learning difficulties are quite common. And on top of that spelling is not even the subject of the thread.

So why do people do it. Do they look good, does it make them feel big, do they feel smart. Are they trying to make the other person look silly .

I don't know either op
It's ridiculous and no one cares.

It makes them feel clever.

A little education is a dangerous thing etc

Yep as Datum said, it makes them feel clever, they don't realise it also makes them look like absolute arseholes at the same time.

Someone did it to me on here. It wasn't even a genuine error it was just predictive text on my phone. Then got all mardy and called me uncuth when I asked who put 50p in the dickhead 🙈

Worst of it is, it was a serious thread and the opinion I gave was absolutely sound, the poster calling me out didn't even contribute anything to the actual thread, just corrected me and fucked off 😏

It is bizarre, deeply unpleasant, but ultimately telling, about the people who do it.

Especially because, on here, the people doing it rarely know as much about language as the posters who tell them to stop it.

HQ do delete though when posters post just to correct someone, so report every time.

There's an interesting article somewhere that I've linked to before, illustrating that the actual knowledge base of people who do it is far more inferior than they'd think.

Nice people don't do this.

I try not to take the piss, but it’s really hard for me to read posts with poor spelling and grammar. I’m dyslexic and have zero phonic ability - I read by how words look - so if they aren’t spelled correctly I sometimes can’t work out what they say.

This

It is bullying behaviour

Some people like to make you feel ashamed and small. I see them now.

Presumably however, you understand that to point out on a thread that someone has made a mistake would be a nasty and unnecessary thing to do?

Exactly at least stick to the subject 🤣. Especially if it's a serious thread, it's not needed

Yes, but sometimes I have asked for clarification and been jumped on because I shouldn’t point out spelling errors!

I think it is just a form of 'polite' or 'helpful' bullying.

Ignorance. I only ever do that to nasty trolls because it annoys them even more

They do it in order to feel superior. They sometimes pretend they are doing it to help people, but I don't believe that is ever actually true. Pointing out people's mistakes at random on the internet is not an even remotely effective way of teaching correct grammar and spelling, and I say that as a language teacher.

Oh definitely. Open season when it's a troll.
Or indeed when Muphry hits the corrector.
And he always, always does.

Some people are terminally unable to see the wood for the trees

I'm so confused. I thought people with dyslexia mainly spelt how things sound. Like I have got mixed up with clever and cleaver in my op. Because to me they sound the same. I guess dyslexia is different for each person.

It's intensely fucking annoying to read poorly written walls of text. So that's probably why.

If anything I prefer the ones who admit they do it out of irritation. At least they're honest about it.

Oh and yy to open season on trolls and Muphry occurrences. The only other time I do it is when someone has the temerity to 'correct' my already correct grammar. They don't do it twice .

If you don't defend the English language it warps into the sort of nonsense you hear in parts of London.

Reason enough to call out the more egregious mistakes.

Instead of getting offended try to learn from it and avoid making the same mistake - that's a winner's mindset.

I'm so confused. I thought people with dyslexia mainly spelt how things sound.

Not necessarily. Dyslexia can cause various issues with spelling, including reversing or confusing the order of letters in a word. Even if it were a problem of spelling things how they sound, that wouldn't necessarily make the word easy for another dyslexic person to read, because English letters make so many different sounds that you could potentially have loads of different ways of writing a word 'how it sounds'!

It’s because you should know it rather than using an excuse.

A man once made some awful misogynistic remarks on a post I made on a community fb group. His reply was also littered with spelling and grammatical errors. I pointed out his mid-steps re victim blaming and his spelling and grammatical errors to boot. I basically wanted to take him down a peg or two and adding in spelling errors was to prove a point that even though he thought he was Mr know it all, he wasn’t.
I also took the piss out of a friend of mine who sent me a link the their business website that had a load of grammatical errors. Readers, his business is in copy writing. He was actually very grateful that I pointed them out as he looked like an incompetent buffoon, which is what I had called.

I wouldn’t personally pick someone up for it but I would quietly think they were a bit stupid if they couldn’t spell properly.

Yes that does make alot of sense