Why do people enjoy picking others up on their spelling or grammar

[TakeMeDrunkImHome]

i have noticed this a LOT here, and i am fairly new. Is there some kind of badge that is awarded if you spell every word correctly and use every term in the correct way. Some people seem to respond to a particular thread just to correct the OP with their spelling or punctuation or grammar. WHY? Not everyone has a masters in english. Not everyone is awesome with spelling or grammar. Is it some way of making yourself look better than the next person?

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Teachers should not say arse they should say bottom I am shocked and appalled the riff raff they allow on MN.

My DDs are home safe so I shall now go to me bedxx

Couldn't agree with you more!

In Liverpool, where I'm from, the plural of 'you' is 'youse.' Came in quite handy but I don't think I ever used it once I realised it wasn't used in written English. < pedant >

Technically, "you" is the plural, as English dropped the actual plural for this word ("je" possibly?) a few hundred years ago hence it struggles to replace the emphasis of changing from the singular to the plural.

All this grammatical information is not my own, but has come from two German friends who are linguists!

I think a really useful addition to the language would be a separation of inclusive vs exclusive "we".

"We (I and some other people) are going to the park" Byeeeee
"We (I and you and optionally some other people) are going to the park" So get your coat and come on

Yes, 'you' is a plural, I was just responding to your question re the plural of it.
Not saying it's correct, but when addressing one person, one might say 'where are you going?' whereas if addressing a group, 'where are youse going?' would be used.

It distinguishes between the two, but tbh I always think it makes people sound thick .

This little rant (if you can get past the advertisement at the beginning) seems appropriate for the thread. I can't do press-ups either...

Fellatio - if you are paranoid about getting it's/its wrong, don't get an iPad. It insists on putting the apostrophe in at all times. But then a autocorrect function that can turn 'get home' into 'gerbils' is probably capable of anything.

An ipad is way beyond my meagre capabilities. I'm still on Key Stage One of texting.

Yes, the difficulty with "you" and "yous" is that "you" is now doing what "thou" and "thee" used to do, as well as being the plural. So in losing thou, thee, thy, etc English actually lost a lot as you have one word doing 4 jobs previously done by 4 different words!

I don't think English has an official enshrined version in law, unlike Norwegian or Dutch for example. Therefore you can make a case for saying that some dialects are more correct by retaining certain grammatical conventions!

I guess for a long time there have been attempts to impose firstly "southern English" and then R.P. as the correct version of English.

LOL at TrillionAstra quite a good idea for some situations!