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

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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.

It's pathetic.

Unless it is in reply to someone who themselves had a nasty pop at someone else for it but made a mistake in their snide post.

Then I bloody love it!

I don't comment on other poster's mistakes but it makes me cringe when I see them.

Me too, but I cringe in real life as well. I'm currently doing a course, the instructor has been known to use phrases like 'more worser' .

My own SPaG isn't great, and I've been making a lot of your/you're type mistakes recently. So generally I skim over it. Unless it's huge not paragraphs of barely-English, in which case I tend to give up.

My biggest bugbear is people who poke fun at others for their spelling and grammar but actually don't have the best grasp of it themselves.

I have a couple of people I'm connected to on FB who create posts ranting about it and comment on local groups mocking people. But I frequently see the usual suspects their/they're/you're/your etc in their own writing.

I think sometimes it's just autocorrect and careless typing but for the love of God don't be that much of a narc that you deride your friends for something that you're equally bad at.

Having said that I find it very hard to overlook it when chatting with friends online. I try not to say anything.

Pulling people up on SPaG is a dick move, designed to be nothing more than a way to feel superior.

I write for a living. I scrupulously proof read my work. I don't bother on MN because it is an internet forum.

I'm amused though on this thread the number of "SPaG matters" types who have made glaring errors in their posts

lazylinguist as always sums it up. :)

I notice spelling and grammatical errors on threads; I make plenty myself and, if I don't, my auto-correct does. I wouldn't dream of correcting other people's posts; its the height of bad manners.

If I really couldn't understand somebody's post, for SPaG, then I would wander off and read something else rather than make that poster feel like shit. My thoughts unshared isn't any kind of tragedy...

Why? Because it's a site you can swear, there is no need to put *. If you can't type the proper swear word, then don't use it.

I’m an English teacher so generally speaking, good grammar is important to me. Having said that, I fully accept that people’s grammar naturally slips when they’re informally texting or writing on the internet.

Correcting somebody’s grammar definitely doesn’t equal intelligence, it just makes you appear like a pedantic twit lacking in emotional intelligence.

I'm dyslexic. You could point out my mistakes until your blue in the face, doesn't mean it will change me.

Sometimes it's genuinely impossible to know what the person is trying to say. Sometimes it undermines their point. And yes, sometimes, there's no need to point out the mistakes.

😂

I was never actually taught punctuation it was always something they taught in middle school when I got to middle school they changed to it should be taught in primary school and so I was never actually taught

my mom (who did a levels and o levels) told me I should put a full stop where I wanted to take a breath my teacher said "her machine gun approach to punctuation makes things difficult to read and needs to be adressed" and promptly didnt address it so I tend not to use them often (at all)

I also have contact dermatitis on my fingers so that makes touch screen typing...interesting

There's never a need to point out somebody's mistakes. If you really don't understand what somebody is saying then move on to another thread, nobody is ever missed for their contribution.

I would never point out mistakes but there are things that I find off-putting which would stop me from engaging based on the way someone writes

YANBU. I'm an editor by profession, but I wouldn't dream of correcting someone unsolicited (or unpaid ).

I fully accept that people’s grammar naturally slips when they’re informally texting or writing on the internet.
This is the bit that I don't understand. Why is it 'natural' that people should suddenly stop being able to write properly? This implies that SPag is only for the classroom.
Does this slippage extend to arithmetic, too? Do you expect people to lose the ability to add and multiply in their everyday life?

If I make a mistake, or have a misconception, how will I ever find out and correct it, if nobody tells me?
Good spelling and grammar are important life skills, vital for accurate communication. The posters on this site are mainly parents. If we don’t correct their errors, they will pass them on to their children.
It’s rather an arrogant mindset to say that you have no regard for the rules of written language, that they do not apply to you, and that you object to being corrected!
Personally, I’d be grateful if someone flagged up an error. It would save me the repeated embarrassment of making it in future.

If I make a mistake, or have a misconception, how will I ever find out and correct it, if nobody tells me?

What is to say the corrector is correct?! Last time someone tried to correct me on here they were wrong and got their arse handed to them (not by me!)

The posters on this site are mainly parents. If we don’t correct their errors, they will pass them on to their children

Do you speak to your children as you type on MN? How odd!

It’s rather an arrogant mindset to say that you have no regard for the rules of written language, that they do not apply to you, and that you object to being corrected!

Its rather an arrogant mindset to assume the role of correcting people's language when unsolicited.

YANBU as long as people stop taking the piss out of me for not being able to do simple mental arithmetic.

I agree, it's petty and rude. It's usually done to make someone feel superior and to put down the OP.

We have no idea whether a poster here suffers from dyslexia, speaks English as a second language etc.

I always notice, it's a real bugbear.

Babdoc, its equally arrogant to expect to have the right to critique other people's posting without their request that you do so. As with everything, the intended action requires agreement.

I don't mind having mine corrected either but I'm not speaking for other people about theirs.

Well said, Jacques

Does this slippage extend to arithmetic
My feeling is that there is not sufficient correspondence between the areas of arithmetic and the areas of grammar for this to be a good argument
Language is much looser, there is way more wriggle room, meanings are slippery and constantly shifting, language is non-linear whereas mathematics is a different ball game... I feel
Then again perhaps I just don't understand the math well enough?

If I make a mistake, or have a misconception, how will I ever find out and correct it, if nobody tells me?

Please tell me how you can tell the difference between a poster making a typo that they didn't catch, or an autocorrect, and mistake made out of ignorance?

It is annoying having typos and grammatical errors highlighted but when I analyse why I feel annoyed ... it's mainly because I'm cross at myself for being careless or thick!