To think that someone with a hoover flex stretched taught across a pavement at 6 inches about ground level is in the wrong?

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DW and DD walking to school this morning and some man hoovering his car but from the farside rather than nearside. DW of course looking for a slack flex on the pavement but DD nearly went flying because it was actually stretched taught like a booby trap six inches off the ground. DW told the man that it was dangerous and was met with a tirade of abuse about looking where one was going....

Just think it's thoughtless and as it was commuting/school run time entirely out of order...

It's still pendantic to correct someone's very minor spelling mistake of one word, on a public forum. In my opinion.

You sound very cock sure of yourself Cote. I'm sure doctors and teachers find you an utter delight to deal with.

My error was not to use spell-check. I am usually very good with spellings and grammar but arrogance obviously got the better of me this morning...

I do agree, Evangelinadreamer, that I am sure most people do make spelling faux-pas, particularly on such threads, as the rate of thought/comment is fast and furious and doesn't exactly lend itself to thorough proof-reading!

Hey ho....

It's "pedantic", not pendantic. It's not rude to politely observe an obvious mistake. It's most rude to derail a thread by attacking a reasonable post and not agreeing to disagree.
OP, yanbu. A taut flex deserves a strong word with the owner, the knob.

It's only a good idea to correct someone's spelling/grammar if it's a thread about spelling/grammar.
Or if they have blatantly brought it on themselves. (eg ranting about 'imigrents what cant spek englsh')

And if you encourage everyone who makes a spelling mistake in their thread title to go back and have it changed, MNHQ may well hunt you down and kill you

YANBU about the hoover lead though!

It wasn't a reasonable post, dontlaugh. It was rude. No need to correct spelling mistakes. It's rude. It's condescending.

....in your opinion it was rude, Evangelina. Opinions are not facts.

I think lots would find it rude tbh

It doesn't matter how many people agree with your opinion. It is still an opinion.

I think if you were to read etiquette books and research good manners, you will see that it is throughly bad manners to correct people on minor speech or grammatical errors. You may think you are great and that you know everything, but I guarantee people will be eye rolling behind your back and avoiding you because they find you rude and a know it all.

I think it is OK to politely correct spelling and grammar errors. How else can people improve their communications skills in English if we don't?

Keep on pedanting Cote

And the OP should have 'accidentally' walked into the flex and pulled it out of the wall.

It's not polite though however you dress it up. If someone had little confidence and felt rubbish about themselves, the last thing they would want is some know-it-all correcting how they pronounced a word. It's unnecessary. And rude.

You must have loved school Evangaline. All those know-it-alls telling you things and correcting your work.

That's different PessaryPam. what a ridiculous thing to say! Teachers are there to teach. Random strangers in the street are not.

This is not the street, this is a written forum and some of us have standards.

Or perhaps some of you are just wankers...just a thought.

I love mumsnet.

YANBU OP. Hope your DD was ok :)

Maybe you could read some of Evangelina's books on etiquette and see if it is rude to call people "wankers". Just a thought.

To each their own, though. I am sure there are people out there who don't find you rude

Yes Cote, as I'm sure there are people out there who don't find you tediously patronising :)

Yes, and you would find that they are significantly more in number than the few you can find who will think you are not rude to come into a thread and call people "wankers". HTH.

You are patronising though Cote. Or at least you appear that way on this thread!

I was just calling a spade a spade Cote. If the shoe fits and all that. That's MY opinion. You seem very adamant that you are entitled to yours so I can surely have mine. Whether you agree with or not or find it rude is up to you. Personally I find derailing a thread to comment on grammar quite rude and extremely patronising as well.

Hi everyone. I am very bemused by the turn that this thread has taken.

Can I just point that I was having a not-so-senior moments day yesterday which is why I made the spelling mistake in the first place. I touch-type and sometimes when you do, your brain runs away with the keyboard without actively engaging and then you do make typos.

No worries and thanks to those who defended me...I am actually quite pedantic about such things myself although my bugbear is less about spelling and more about grammatical errors - so maybe it's a case of hubris....

Anyway, it's making me cringe now seeing the thread with a semi-incoherent title .

Don't be, we all do it.