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

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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?

It's a case in point that I've just had to reread your post about five times to get the gist of what you're saying, because you didn't punctuate it at all. It makes it really hard to read and understand.

I didn't say anything about teaching. The person I quoted mentioned seeing it as an opportunity to learn, which I agree with.

its a certain generation trying to hang on to something that they hope is still held in high regard and will make them appear better than everyone else. sadly by the end of my life correct grammar and typing will be a think of the past and how we communicate will have evolved completly. we will all be speaking in abreviations!

My bears are all quite calm, maypole. Even the alpha ones.

Sorry

Bucharest sorry can you explain your talking about kettles and dwarfs I really not sure what you mean

And on the swearing their a difference between using a swear word eg saying something is shit than saying to a poster you are shit.

maypole my last post was to you.

My first biscuit. I'm not being bitchy; I really didn't understand your post. Now I've read it loads of times, I think I do, but I didn't say anything about teaching.

I agree with Beesimo and Lyingwitchinthewardrobe.

I have just been introduced to the language of smilies and am chuffed at my new skill. ,,/

So far am I too lazy to learn standard text speak and tend not to venture into it ever since I said laugh out loud instead of lots of love to my SIL.

I think communication is an evolving art to be experimented with and enjoyed.

Jena oh dear bares lol

KnittedBreast...I think the fact that English grammar work is being reintroduced into the curriculum where once it had been removed, means that what you predict is unlikely. There will be a generation of bad SPaGgers, but they will die and their children will be able to communicate properly.

(I am of that generation that was never taught grammar at school. So, it doesn't look as though we can use that as an excuse either, does it?)

I think correcting people may put people of posting on MN ,which is a shame really

I wouldn't take too kindly to someone correcting mine on the boards or by PM

I can imagine my PM response

Off * I always get that wrong

LyingWitch I do grit my teeth quietly! As I said in my post, I wouldn't pick up someone on their spelling or grammar; I think it's rude. I did on the 'furture mother' thread, because she was a rather obvious troll.

Maypole, re-read your post at the bottom of page 4. You are talking about "dwarfs". I am merely asking what the feckity they have to do with anything?

You are the one calling people bitches, and then pulling others up for swearing.

I love you too

"dwarfing" sorry.

Maypole, you didn't need to be able to spell well in order not to tell me that my children will be going to tin pot universities, or that I'm happy for them to get Cs, or that they do get Cs, or any of it.

Those were offensive, untrue statements to make, and you've lost any argument you ever had by making them.

Yes, perhaps it would have been better to explain how and why that was the case, but I'd probably lost heart, and the irony of you telling me as fact that my children aren't bright, that I have no expectations for them, and so on, in the manner in which you did it, was just too juicy to pass up.

The nit-pickers often seem to have no interest in the subject under debate; so they go for pointless nit-picking on spelling and grammar. Spelling may be pretty firm but punctuation is done different by different writers. And then there is inventive jokey spelling. The should learn that mumsnot is NOT a job application,

Joan really this again you really need to stop hijacking peoples threads and thread stalking me.

Are you really still on about state vs private

Please quote me were I said you children were not bright you won't be able to because I didn't.

Then when you lost your argument you descended into correcting spelling and swearing

Oh dear Joan

And I'm not trying to bring that consversation onto this thread, but it is relevant because those are, I think, the only circumstances in which I would point out bad grammar, as I see it as directly detracting from the points people are trying to make in those circumstances, so a pulling-up is in order.

See above

Take it outside you two

Joanof arguos
Maypole, you didn't need to be able to spell well in order not to tell me that my children will be going to tin pot universities, or that I'm happy for them to get Cs, or that they do get Cs, or any of it.

Well its a shame you saw fit then to correct my spelling

Or indeed a school exam. Where different teachers seem to have different ideas as to the importance of spelling. John Lennon once wrote a book with jokey spelling . A Tory MP thought he could not spell. (and it was a good laugh)

Stop it now.

The truth is what counts in my life is not my spelling/grammer its the fact I am a hard working capable woman.

I am a good Mam,Wife, Daughter and Friend. My bairns are well behaved and repectful. I help run our businesses, I run my house properly it is clean and well stocked. I can train any horse or dog to do my bidding. I can birth any animal and stich it up right if needed. I can cook to a very high standard nearly everything we eat is grown by us I sew/knit/crotchet beautifully. If necessary I could trap/skin and cook a rabbit over a open fire or pull a trout out of a stream with my bare hands. No bairn of mine will ever see a hungry day because we are teaching them all we know.

I know for some of you this correct English is a big deal but in the long run its a hell of a lot of time and effort to end up disappearing up your own backsides!