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

385 replies

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 31/05/2011 01:29

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?

OP posts:
HattiFattner · 31/05/2011 11:25

If it helps:

Urban dictionary for dwarfing is zzzzzzzzz predictable,

But dwarfer may be relevant.

Bucharest · 31/05/2011 11:26

So I am now responsible for what you write?

Okaaaaaaaay. Confused

maypole1 · 31/05/2011 11:26

fellationnelson i can only gather that again its about them feeling good about them selves

when people feel bad about themselves they either climb up to you or bring you down to them

you usually only see this when people feel their loosing the argument or have no facts to back up what they are saying and they usually ignore posters who agree but misspell

FellatioNelson · 31/05/2011 11:27

maypole you are telling me you were distracted. Sounds to me like you were distracted by class A drugs or summat. Hmm

Grin Who randomly puts the word dwarfing into a sentence and doesn't remember how or why?

wolfhound · 31/05/2011 11:27

Beesimo, correct spelling and grammar comes naturally to me, but I think I would far rather have your many talents and be able to pass them on to my children. .

OldMacEIEIO · 31/05/2011 11:28

losing

FellatioNelson · 31/05/2011 11:28

Ok, where's my mouth rag gone?

Bucharest · 31/05/2011 11:30

I've got it.

beesimo · 31/05/2011 11:30

FN

Are you a idiot how do you think butchers have brawn, black pudding ect to sell do you think it comes from a hole in the ground. Everthing you put in your gob has been grown/reared then harvested/slaughtered prepared for market/or 'dressed' to sell.

Your ignorance astounds me.

TobyLerone · 31/05/2011 11:31

Correct spelling and grammar are important to me. It irritates me to see things spelt incorrectly, or apostrophes misplaced.

Usually I will let it go. But if someone is being a patronising arse on a thread, I will point out that they're not as perfect as they seem to think they are.

FellatioNelson · 31/05/2011 11:34

Confused Beesimo I think you have misunderstood me. Not sure how, or where, but you must have. Grin

I am impressed at the pig's head and the catching of food with your bare hands. And as someone who owns over 150 cookery books and eats balck pudding on a weekly basis, and grows her own veg, no ignorance here.

maypole1 · 31/05/2011 11:35

at least Toby is being truthful she uses it as a beating stick when she feels people are getting out of line

FellatioNelson · 31/05/2011 11:39

I can't stop laughing at:

FN, are you an idiot? Your ignorance astounds me.'

Well yes. Me too. Grin It's a cross I must bare.

beesimo · 31/05/2011 11:40

FN

You can't hunt with the hounds and run with the fox!

Bs back to work now.

FellatioNelson · 31/05/2011 11:43
Confused

She's definitely misunderstood me, and now she gorn all cryptic. Ah well. She speaks in garbled Yorkshireish anyway, so I won't worry my little RP head about it.

beesimo · 31/05/2011 11:43

FN

Oh joy abounds its BEAR not BARE if this thick Yorkshire Pudding know that!!!

Ha Ha Ha

I am seriously going to get some work done now or I will have to tell meself off!!

Psammead · 31/05/2011 11:45

bee, I think FN was admiring you!

Pagwatch · 31/05/2011 11:47

Beeismo
Reign in your joy.

Fn knows it is not bare. That is why she snorted. It was a joke.

I once posted about going downstairs in bear feet. I was mocked but it was fair enough Grin

FellatioNelson · 31/05/2011 11:48

Of course it is! It's the law of sod again. Grin I don't think I ever make so many of those silly mistakes as I do when I'm pedantry threads. Grin Besides I'm laughing so much at you calling me an idiot I can't see straight never mind think straight. Grin

nijinsky · 31/05/2011 11:50

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?

What an awful attitude OP. Why would you need a Masters in English to know the basics of spelling and grammar rules that are taught to you in the 11 or more years you spend in full-time education? And why should you consider it a way of making yourself look better than someone else? How difficult is it really to learn these basic rules, such as capitalising the letter "I"?

I have foreign friends who have never been to university who write better in English than many native speakers. Why you would object to writing correctly in your own native language, I do not know. These rules are very easily learned with a tiny bit of effort.

Obviously people who suffer from dyslexia and the like are excepted, and I don't even mind people who wright in their own dialect (because its grammatically correct for that dialect). Its so bad now, when I am marking Masters papers, I get students who do not know which words to capitalise, how to use paragraphs, the difference between "their" and "there", etc.. Its actually a bit of a running joke with my Dutch friends about how badly the British cannot spell in their own native tongue.

I'm sorry, but if you have recieved the benefit of a full-time education, and are not dyslexic and do not have any other condition which explains it, the reason you cannot write well in your own native language is most likely because you couldn't be bothered to concentrate at school, spent your time disrupting the rest of the class, and so on, and now its catching up with you.

FellatioNelson · 31/05/2011 11:50

Pag, I do know it's bear, but that that was a genuine cock-up on my part. It's just the quick-fire nature of the thread that catches me out sometimes, and I'm not checking my posts.

Pagwatch · 31/05/2011 11:52

Bloody hell fellatio.
You pissed on my 'it's a joke ' thing there .

I thought you were being uber ironic when you were just a bit shit in the pedantry stakes.

Pagwatch · 31/05/2011 11:55

Grin x-posted.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 31/05/2011 11:57

nijinsky... Would that be why you don't differentiate between 'write' and 'wright', then?

A pedant will always be hoisted on their own petard, and the non-pedants amongst us will delight in that.

Use 'preview' post in future, I would. Grin

FellatioNelson · 31/05/2011 11:57

No sadly I was just being a bit shit. But then I am an idiot ignoramus so what do you expect? Grin

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