Why do grown ups adults take the piss spelling /grammar

[Easystuff]

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 .

Oh so autistic people have to manage and mask their condition but dyslexic people don't? Just wanting to understand the different expectations....

Dyslexic people can't mask . Because they can't see they are spelling/wrong grammar in the first place.

Get what what you mean by people with autism though. I never thought about it in that way. But its probably impossible to separate. There are many people on this thread saying its due to being lazy. Or well you should be able to your an adult. I do think there are people who put themselves out to be nasty to people who can't spell. But I get what your saying to as people with autism are not going to have a tag saying sorry if I point things out I'm autistic.

Sorry if I have not worded that well

Exactly that @Easystuff . I hadn't thought about it until I called someone out for being rather bluntly pedantic and they explained they were autistic. I see both dyslexia and autism and equally worthy of understanding and neither person can "just" stop being the way they are.

You're comparing apples with cheese.

People with dyslexia have specific, easy to recognise, difficulties with the written word. With experience, it's relatively easy to see something written and think, ah, that's one of X's issues with the written word. (specific spelling mistakes etc)

Some people with autism may have impulse reactions to certain situations/contexts that they are unable to control. One of those contexts (when physically present within the situation) may well be the vocal correcting of another person's mistake. Whether that be factual, informational, or grammatical. That vocal correcting may be inappropriate. Less likely (but not impossible) for it to happen in purely written communication.

Are you saying that everyone on MN who posts simply to correct another person's English mistake is autistic?

Of course not. (I hope)

I'm just explaining a situation where I called someone out for this and they explained their own context, and I thought it was important to highlight that all kinds of people with different learning difficulties and struggles are using these pages. This person couldn't see how rude they came across, they clearly didn't mean to. And I do think their struggles are just as tricky, in a different way, to those of someone with dyslexia.

It's not comparing chalk and cheese to point out there are different people with different struggles using this website.

I don't call out bad spelling etc when I see it but I can see that for some people it is very hard not to.

Again, no-one is forced to tell others what they think of their poor grammar/spelling, no matter how distressing they may find it to read.

They are not forced to make others feel shit and humiliated because for whatever reason, they cannot learn the basics.

I'm just passing on what was explained to me. It sounded like this person just didn't /couldn't realise how their advice would land. So not forced, no, but no more able to see how their words came across than dyslexic people are able to see bad spelling. Anyway, that's my understanding of what they relayed to me. So I am more cautious about criticising pedantry now. I tend to ignore the poor spelling and ignore the pedants.

@TheLongGloriesOfTheWinterMoon do expand on this insight! Bated breath here.

Are you aren't being sarcastic?
If not, how much do you want to bet it will be White Humanities academia and their chosen POC who will determine that Bastardised English will be the worldwide Lingua Franca?

See the Anglo language supremacism over trying to undermine non English gendered languages in the name of transactivism for example.

Also in real life similarly qualified people if it comes down to who gets the job, it'll be the " simple, but important spelling mistakes" candidate who often loses out.
We have too many functioning illiterates for whom English is their first language. That is why the reading of books as a past time will always have an unquantifiable importance in developing a sipple brain. Intelligence in and of itself isn't enough for a lot of people.

There's a reason why the blind, people with dyslexia and functioning autism etc aren't lining up to fight for the right to not be able to spell , write and convey written thought that cannot be understood easily by non specific readers. Much less those without these challenges , but who do not suffer from inverted arrogance.

I don't see this fight for the right not to be corrected so much outside of the Anglosphere. And truth be told it's the first world Anglosphere denizens who seem to interpret correction as bullying the most.
Privilege, eh?

@HoldOnMiGenna who are you replying to ?