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.

Yes. It also seems to do a, an and the differently even if set on uk. At least I've been told after using it

When I have to correct someone for their awful manners I know that I am making this world a far better place for the all too brief period that my presence graces it.

What will you all do without me. How will you carry on. I am going to prepare a lengthy video presentation so that my descendants have some guiding life principles after my demise.

Going library.

YANBU. It's tedious and makes the person doing the correcting look like an utter prick.

A while ago now, there was a thread started suggesting that the correctors of SPaG be banished to the Pedant's Corner board. There was uproar... the pedants, understandably, didn't want anything to do with you.

Can't disagree with them, I don't either. I can't imagine how empty your lives are if your need to breathlessly challenge what you consider is flawed SPaG at every turn. It's appalling manners and those are far more important.

Those posters who - for the purposes of bolstering the SPaG nazis on the thread - are willing to have theirs corrected, why not ask MNHQ for a little emblem against your username? It would be an ideal solution, wouldn't it?

Sorry, I didn't look closely enough at it newyearnoeu and WalkingDeadTrainee

Hopefully someone will release a UK English version soon.
It would be a lot kinder for someone to say, 'It looks as though your autocorrect has had a field day with your post, have you tried this grammar app, it usually stops that happening.' rather than point out any individual errors.

In my experience people who are bad at spelling and grammar in their mother tongue are dumb and badly educated people, unless dyslexic.

I always wondered why do people use autocorrect when it actually seems like it's doing the opposite of what it should 😂

@smartanimal.

What a bitchy comment.

It’s nasty, as well as inaccurate.

You might want to get some help with your own before slagging off others & name change while you’re about it

In my experience people who are bad at spelling and grammar in their mother tongue are dumb and badly educated people, unless dyslexic.

And what's your point Smartanimal?

Well, your experience is shite. I work with writers every day, and some of the best storytellers who have written the most evocative pieces have struggled with spelling and grammar, for various reasons. That's where I come in. I'm not smarter than they are; I just have a different set of skills.

The only people who are 'dumb' and 'badly educated' are those who can't understand that everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. Being well-educated involves a degree of emotional intelligence too.

It's also the case that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. People who are genuinely knowledgeable about language don't crow about others' mistakes or delight in pedantry. People who really know language are interested in variations in usage, regional dialects, the shifting meanings of words and phrases over time, and how language is being used in the real world. Those who are stuck repeating things (in many cases inaccurate things, judging by some of the 'corrections' I read on here) they learned in English classes 30 years ago are not knowledgeable about language. But they often think they are and take great delight in trying to show off, usually embarrassing themselves in the process.

I think there's been once where I failed to ignore or click off a thread. It was a borrowed/lent error, and the OP (who didn't have a very amenable tone anyway) had replied to pedant one that it was the same thing anyway. It did make a difference in understanding the story of who was lending/ borrowing and how unreasonable they were being and the OP said the opposite of what they meant. If it matters to understand context, I don't have too much issue with corrections/ clarification, but that is the minority. Much of the time it is people being obnoxious, on a power trip, especially if a poster is writing about something serious/ distressing.

I tend to ignore wall-of-text OPs lacking in paragraphs or even sentences, and swiftly move on. I'm no longer paid to translate gobledegook into English, and MN falls beyond my maternal duties in that department.

I appreciate the MN is a literate forum with a generally high level of usage and little text speak, but over-zealous pedants do little to boost the ambiance other than being amusing when a senior pedant comes along to avenge their inevitable errors.

99.9% of the time, the knowledge that another pedant will tear me apart in seconds is enough to encourage me to behave

(And proof-reading this post has already paid off...)

YABU - spell, write and proofread properly.

TriangularRatbag and if someone can't?

Yanbu. Correcting people's spelling on a forum just makes you look like a dick.

And I say that as someone who writes and edits for a living. There's a time and a place.

They'll be criticised.

Those who can do, those who can't spend time picking out other people's mistakes....

So true!

I have been on MN for a long time now, and I've realised that there's a certain core of posters who show up for every thread like this, cheerfully insisting that good spelling is akin to moral virtue, or that everyone should 'proofread properly,' or claiming that people who use bad grammar are 'thick'.

And I've realised that these same people are remarkably free of any kind of ambition, education, or ability to find entertainment or society in their lives.

I am crap with SPaG. I don't really care. Nor does my publisher.

I'm sure if picking holes in other people's grammar on the internet were an important aspect of my identity, I'd feel otherwise, of course.

They'll be criticised.

Only by knuckle dragging idiots who are too thick to understand life outside of their own little bubbles.

MN are so weird. It's apparently fine to criticise people for all sorts of things on here and to pile in and tell them they're hard work, stupid, rude, bigoted, abusive, even criminal - but suggest that it might be nice not to write "could of" and apparently that's the greatest crime ever.

Did you ever see that ice skater that skated really badly as part of her act? It was so bad she must have been very competent.

I get that feeling with your post.

Could it be (shudder gasp!) that what you're seeing is just different people on different threads?

I'd hate to look simple, but it seems like a wild possibility worth investigating. What with MN being a huge site with lots of posters, and all.

@WalkingDeadTrainee

I’ve always wondered why do people use autocorrect when it actually seems like it's doing the opposite of what it should

I guess because I have fat fingers and I’m an optimist! I always hope it’ll improve. It’s a slow learner though- it still often changes Fucking to Ducking and that pusses me off as it looks so twee! It SHOULD know me better than that FFS!

I have pretty good SPaG but autocorrect sometimes does the dirty on me once I've written a perfectly legible text/message.

I am one of those people who notice errors, but on a discussion forum, as long as what the OP has written can be understood, then it's not of vital importance that their post is impeccably written.
However, if I see SPaG in business comminications or on signage/posters, I do tend to point it out as it suggests that either they've had a shoddy deal from their promotions people, or that they are potentially losing custom as if they can't get communications worded correctly it doesn't bode well for anything else.

In my opinion, it's pretty pathetic behaviour by people itching to grasp at the only thing they can claim to be superior about.
A person's ability to spell is not synonymous with their IQ. My spelling, punctuation, and grammar is slightly off, as I am dyslexic. However, I obtained an Oxbridge PhD, after being educated at a state comprehensive school.
GCHQ also has active recruitment drives for dyslexics because of their "spiky" skill sets.
I think that any person itching to be a grammar pedant on here should think really carefully about the possibility that they are actually being horrible to someone with an SpLD.

My spelling, punctuation, and grammar is slightly off, as I am dyslexic. However, I obtained an Oxbridge PhD

I've worked with a Nobel Prize winning engineer and a few Nobel nominated engineers. They've created things that have fundamentally changed technology and the way our world works. Hell, you could argue that we are using Mumsnet only because of the work they did.

Not a one of them ever used you or you're properly.

But sure...idiots.