to think that posters who rip apart others for spelling and grammar issues are Twats?

[SqutterNutBaush]

I'm so sick of seeing this on here lately, perfectly reasonable posts and then someone trying to be funny starts picking it apart and acting like a smug moron.

There really is no need for it, I make mistakes in my posts whether its because of auto-correct or the fact that I'm generally not great with grammar and spelling sometimes but there are others who have literacy problems and I really fail to see what good it does to start taking the piss out of them.

Sometimes I really do think that these people might as well be in the playground, then again I doubt they'd be so rude and insensitive if it weren't for them hiding behind a screen.

I love MN but this is becoming much more common and its crap, stop picking on other posters and think about underlying problems before you jump in with your oh so funny put-downs.

It has been going on for ages, it must make them feel good about themselves to put others with learning disabilities or poor education down.

I use Firefox as my browser, so if I make a spelling mistake it highlights it.

can't give advice.

See?! :)

personally I have huge gaps in my education, i was an ill child and missed a lot of essential english lessons because of it, my grammar is probably not correct most of the time, Maybe that is why i am not that bothered by spelling and grammar especially grammar

As some of you have mentiomed above, it does make it easier to read if spelling, punctuation, paragraphs etc. are used correctly but there is a big difference in asking for clarification or thinking that a post is poorly written and outwardly being rude toward someone because of it.

We all have little things that grate on us (i struggle with "cutesy" terms I.e Hollybobs, Baba, little prince/princess but I deal with the fact that others may use them and similarly hate some of the terms I happen to use but there's no need to pick on someone for it.

MardyBra, I think Twat is a naming word therefore needs a capital... but I am probably very wrong about this :o

aye what freudian said it is an internet forum nothing more nothing less,

I think a simple correction is pointing out the error but not making a big deal of it. I completely understand that people make typing errors, and damn auto-correct doesn't help, but I don't understand why it's acceptable to not understand the basics of the English language.

if you are that concerned that someone has not grasped the basics of the English language and want to help them then send a pm not pull them up on a public forum

That's a good point FreudianSlipper

YANBU,I have a lots of things I would like to ask on mumsnet,but the Grammar police put me off.
Its mean and belittling.

piper if somebody gave me a simple correction about spelling i would think less of them than my/another's spelling tbh unless it was a thread about spelling obviously,

I let 99.99% of all the mistakes I see on here go by but very occasionally a correction pops out - always when someone is posting in a superior and sneering manner towards other people. I'm not a twat or a wanker but I get wound up sometimes, like most of us on here. I tend not to tell people to fuck off or anything like that.

I actually think Mumsnet is pretty tolerant in this regard - I don't see all that many comments on spelling and grammar compared to some other scary places on the internet.

I still smile fondly when I think of the poster who was on a pedal stool. That mistake was quite sweet, and she wasn't really hounded for it, but it did get a lot of comments.

I'm a total grammar nazi, but I write for a living and it's just a bug bear. However I'd never point out someone's spelling/grammar mistake, because that is the height of twattiness

So very true OP

The other day a poster kept saying "its my thought" when she meant "its my fault". She said it three times, and I did mention it in my reply because other people on her thread were saying that they couldn't understand what she was saying. I didn't say it in a mean or belittling way.

I don't think anyone is saying its acceptable Piper but I don't feel the need to point it out to people, my brother has Dyslexia and as such can write some erm interesting sentences but I wouldn't dream of correcting him unless it was an important note which MN is really not.

There are many posters on here, some of whom may struggle with spelling, grammar, general literacy for various reasons and perhaps due tp Dyslexia or just a limited grasp on the English language.

Would it be acceptable to correct their every error and snigger if it were in the context of a real conversation?

Mintyy that is different though it is really fun to put a tool in their place if a person is being sarky or superior sometimes they need telling

Mrsjay
Your sentence needs a full stop at the end.

Naming words (aka nouns) don't need capitals in English. If it's actually someone's name, then it would.

Mind you, it was the only thing I could find in the OP (and believe me, I tried!). The first rule of posting in pedants' corner is that the OP will usually contain a basic unintended error.

Mintyy that sounds like it was in a helpful way.

The thing that makes me rage is the 'could you try paragraphs OP. reading that has given me a headache'

Well if you can't read it don't fucking reply
They will probably rub right along without your smug contribution.

If I want someone to assist me with the construction of my posts I will ask. Otherwise fuck off.

OP YANBU. I like that the posts on here are generally 'proper English' mainly because old farts like me can't read or write in txtspk. It does grate when people use there/their incorrectly, but then I work with quite a lot of young graduates that IMHO write like ten year olds.

I would never point out a poster's mistakes to them though, perhaps unless they came on to say that they couldn't get a job or any interviews, then I might say that they should check that there are no spelling mistakes etc in the applications because lots of companies bin such applications as part of their sifting process.

However, too many people are too quick to pull people up and judge on small errors. It seems to be one of the few things on MN that it is acceptable to judge people on, along with caravans .

Strangely it seems to never be acceptable to judge people on poor mathematic abilities, or a whole host of other things where sometimes, judging really is acceptable.

maybe i am just being a rebel ! sally

Yes, that sounds helpful not superior.

The only time it's ok to correct another post is when they are being superior, preferably about education