AIBU to correct the way people speak?

[Sarahlou63]

Not a grammar Nazi but I host lots of volunteers and I have grown to hate, hate, hate the word 'like'. (Most are 18-25, female and British/European/American).

"I was, like, going to, like, my friend's and she was, like, late so, like, I was really, like, cross with her." Arrrrgggghhhhh!!!

I've started, like, really calling them out, like, on using the L word or am I going to stunt their emotional growth, like?!?

I’m an English teacher so I find myself often having to stop myself doing it and my colleagues are the same .

I don’t wish to be a patronising arsehole but I am exactly the same with the word ‘like’. Also have to grit my teeth when people say pacifically instead of specifically. What I tend to do is find a subtle way to drop the correct word into my response.

Gun didn't see any malapropisms in your first post, just you (wrongly) telling your DH not to use sideboards for sideburns and mocking his accent.

and mocking his accent

How did I mock his accent?!

My comment was tongue in cheek.

That didn't go over my head & I was being equally facetious

Correcting someone's malapropisms is not abusive, it's quite normal.

Constantly nitpicking another adult persons speech without their request for your help IS at best very rude, at worst abusive 🤷🏼‍♀️

Smug and patronising. Yikes.

Calling someone the c word is far worse in my opinion.

Yes OP you are being U but I kind of understand where you are coming from (you probably hate "kind of" too!). When I see someone say on Twitter that they are "excited for" something, I always want to tweet them and say "excited about not excited for".

OP, imo you are not unreasonable.

@MarieIVanArkleStinks
You don't think you may be being a little unreasonable and under the misconception that people correct other people's grammar, spelling and syntax because they think it makes them sound of superior intelligence? Maybe they genuinely mean well. Maybe they are doing it because they think the writer should maybe know, so they don't look silly? To write it off as superior, imo makes you sound defensive, insecure, resentful and inferior, angry at those only wanted to help. Instead of what I would do which is be grateful someone took the time (and risk of being attacked for it, as the OP here is) to correct me so I didn't keep making an idiot of myself. Your reaction is your choice, but how one reacts is very telling.

DH has actually just said "whom is going tonight then?". I was very restrained. He thinks "whom" is the plural of who and you use it to refer to various people

I like hate it too like

With a passion. It makes my teeth itch. I think it makes you sound like a twat

I wouldn't correct them unless they were doing some form of public speaking or presentations etc

@Sarahlou63 Given* Gifted refers to one's talent