AIBU that criticising someone's spelling and grammr on AIBU is rubbish behaviour ?

[Stinkycatbreath]

Ive noticed this on Facebook and here. Now I can understand that when people use offensive language people need to pull them up on it. But sometimes people might miss a letter or comma or something and there is always one or several people who make a comment nothing to do with the thread about the OPs spelling or grammar! I mean you logged on to make a comment nothing to do with the thread. We have all made typos and posted things which are not grammatically accurate but some people are just out to get others as they think they have superiority. I especially like it when people are losing an arguement then really get in their with "yeh well at least I can spell properly " or something to that affect. It must be lovely to be so perfect and for my money those peole can stick their grammar where the sun don't shine. As long as a post is legible and understandable its fine., no need to be such a twonk.

I’m so embarrassed to admit that before I’d figured out the hang of MN I stupidly corrected the syntax of a Very Well Respected MNer on a political AIBU...almost 9 years later & I’m still cringing!! (And have name-changed many times since then!!)
#BESH

It’s a forum. Your words are literally everything on here. Why wouldn’t you make sure they’re written as well as they can be?

I don’t tend to comment on people’s spelling and grammar on here, but I notice and it’s one aspect of how I form an opinion about people. It colours how I view them and what they’re writing about. I assume it does for other readers too.

Your posts on this thread, for example, have lots of errors. Which makes me think that either you couldn’t be bothered making the effort to get it right on a thread you’ve started specifically about spelling and grammar errors or you’ve done it on purpose to wind people up. Either way, my view of you is more negative than it could have been. My view of you is probably completely inaccurate but I don’t know you and, on this forum, it’s based purely on what you write and how you write it.

Not particularly a dig at you, by the way - just illustrating a more general point. Humans make instant judgements about people constantly on the evidence the brain is presented with.

Their a bunch of pendant's.

It’s absolutely pathetic - especially if it’s just one word and the superior idiots totally pounce on it. I’m sure it must make them feel so much better than everyone and smug.

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Their a bunch of pendant's.
Hilarious

I can't stand seeing posters criticised for something thats very clear and gets the message across despite a few typos, or spelling mostakes.

But, it is annoying where it has changed the meaning of the post in some way.

I see lots of glaring errors and myohone makes plenty too but some, I swear, just nasty posters. A lot of it is totally unnecessary and unkind.

There's surely advantage in hearing from the broadest audience, not excluded for their SPaG

I think it’s rude to point it out. But occasionally necessary if a poster is not making sense. Also, if they are being particularly arsey, then they deserve it . I worked as a proof reader for a long time. Bad grammar and spelling really does annoy me.

I think sometimes pointing it out especially when asking for clarification helps the other readers who can comment and offer their advice.

As long as it is reasonably understandable, I think we can let things slide. I do know I have given up on threads though where I struggle to read and understand the OP.

I think for that reason, you cannot underestimate the difference a little bit of effort makes. Obsessing over every detail and expecting perfection, is equally off-putting.

I think it’s fair enough if it’s done politely and the poster would like to know but I don’t think correcting someone makes a lot of difference. They just carry on oblivious making the same mistake.

I notice it. I don’t comment on it because I’m not a dick. People post here for help, not an English lesson. As long as it’s comprehensible there’s no need to point out flaws in SPaG. It’s boring, it is a distraction from the original post, and it is unsupportive and snarky.

I find ect instead of etc annoying. I don't comment though.
I assume autocorrect and probably multi tasking leads to some errors.
Tbh as I get older I have to chk what used to be simple spellings for me.

I sometimes wonder if the fact few people buy a daily newspaper anymore makes a difference. I read somewhere that reading a good newspaper is one way to learn how to write well.

I agree, yet wanted to correct your thread. But I didn’t. Yay me 😂

It’ll get me hung one day!!
Hanged. But you were waiting for that. I wudnt of brought it up else.

English is my second language, so if I made a mistake while posting, I'd appreciate someone correcting me.

Yanbu, I've struggled with spag all my life, someone being snarky on a forum about it is not helpful in the slightest.

Spag is a pain just eat spaghetti instead, I would of done that any time.

I am a writer and proofreader, so my fingers do tremble when reading some posts. I admit to not bothering with posts that are entire blocks of of text with little or no punctuation; I click out straight away. I’m a pedant, but I don’t show it here as I know not everyone would appreciate it.

Poor spelling bothers me a lot less than when people don't break their posts into smaller paragraphs.

That said, there are some things that do grate, like "go shops" instead of "go to the shops" or similar. I wouldn't comment about it - I can still understand the meaning, but it is a pet peeve.

English isn’t my first language, despite that I am yet to find a post on MN that I can’t fully understand.

I think some people just enjoy being rude, I was belittled by a few posters ages ago as they thought I had used the wrong word to describe something. They were wrong, they just weren’t accustomed to it being used in that way. Unlike them I chose not to be a dick and ignored them.

Don’t think I’ve ever pointed it out on here. But it does grate. “I’m going shops” etc makes me 🤯
But in real life, thinks like “I’ll arx her about it” drove me to distraction too!

Do you know, I think it was so drilled into me when I was at school that sloppy grammar/speech wasn’t ok that I’m conditioned to be horrified. Maybe.

See, didn’t check my post and it’s got errors. 🤭

I've been using MN for 11+ years and one of the things that's tracked me to the site was the SPaG and how people were corrected. I rarely correct posters now though as it ends up with threads like this. These days I just pull up people who use * instead of vowels when swearing.

Can we assume from the title of your thread that you don't mind if we point out errors in all the other topics? I'd have thought it it was going to be understandable anywhere it would be on AIBU where posters tend to be more robust.

If you were brought up and educated that written communication should be correct poor SPa G is always going to grate

Yanbu. It’s sooooooooooo boring.

People who get wound up about spelling and grammar are people who find it easy and don't understand that others don't.

I work in SN and there are colleagues who have empathy and care about the children we work with but are extremely rude about S and G with anyone in work or on social media. It makes no sense to me.

It's important to encourage people to write and express themselves. Pointing out errors could stop someone writing all together and that's a real shame.

It could be they are dyslexic. Had poor education. English is not their first language. They have a low cognitive ability or it's a typo.