To be increasingly annoyed about the amount of MN's who feel it is OK to correct one's spelling and grammar

[whocaresaboutyourintellect]

I am getting really fed up of it.

Someone will post a topic and then you get some "up you own backside" MN'er who takes it upon themselves to correct all of the grammar and spelling in said post.

This happens in particular in threads of a contraversial nature as a means of embarrasing the OP. It is ridiculous.

This is a talk forum, not an English exam so to all those MN'ers........get a life!!!!

and i've given up previewing

I don't think it's that much of a problem tbh. Most of my posts are garbled nonsense with typos everywhere (I am articulate and literate in real life, but it all goes to pot in MN land) but nobody has ever pulled my posts to pieces like you say.

Why would you want to keep on making mistakes though? I'd rather know if I was spelling something incorrectly or using poor grammar so I'd know about it

legacy- you missed controversial

I never previewed

I would only correct somebody if it was directly relevant to their post, e.g. if somebody wrote in to say how awful it was that their childminder/nanny/preschool leader couldn't express themselves correctly- and then their own post was full of grammatical mistakes

or if someone is really nasty to another poster in some way relating to education/lack of status etc

MrsR - that one had already been highlighted when I started typing..

I think it is madness to assume that someone who can't spell or is 'grammatically challenged' can't be taken seriously. It is only because on here we have to communicate with text that it becomes apparent. Would you suddenly decide to stop taking someone seriously in RL because you found out that they couldn't spell? Or didn't put an apostrophe in the correct place?

YABU - Agree with most of the others - I have only seen this happen when the poster is being inflammatory and deliberately winding people up.

controversial

sorry

some people shorten their language like text speak ~ this is fine as long as it's intelligible

YABU as they have the right to correct posts just as you have the right to complain about them and misspell

I agree with op. I am dyslexic and quite a few times been corrected on my spelling and it has really upset me and embarrassed me. I even stopped posting for a while, ok maybe I am a bit sensitive but then most people would be over a issue that made them feel so shit at school as it was not diagnosed.
Mumsnet is where many mums come for support. Its sad if mums who are dyslexic or have other learning difficulties feel unable to post

LOL at "It's like an educational outreach project"

But I agree - why would anyone want to continue being so ignorant?

I'm grateful if someone points something out that might otherwise embarrass me in the future.

When I worked as a manager for a large retail company I used to filter out CVs and letters which were full of poor grammar and spelling mistakes.

MN may be doing you a favour....

Hmm...not sure. I've noticed more errors in posts recently and the whole your/you're and their/they're/there errors really annoy me. I suppose that I'd like someone to point out any spelling or grammatical errors that I make simply because I'd be mortified to know that I'm making them.

Also, spelling and grammar are important (though I appreciate it's an internet forum rather than something more formal). In the past when reviewing CVs, I'd definitely bin those that had any errors. Thus, if I was making the errors and genuinely had no idea that I was in the wrong, I'd probably appreciate it being pointed out.

YABU.
If you want people to read your posts, isn't it only fair to the reader to make them intelligible?
"This is a talk forum, not an English exam" Eh? I don't reserve proper spelling and grammar for exams - I use it all the time. It's how it's supposed to be done, you know. It's not something you only do for special occasions.

am still seeing that rogue apostrophe in the title - it's not a possessive "MN" so why is it their??

God yes
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I know hocus. just being a bit silly.

Orangehead - I think it's possible to spot someone who struggles with spelling through dyslexia. Sloppiness is another thing...

Yes! I thought so - meant to put a on the end!

You seem to struggle with spelling ...

your controversial embarrassing

orangehead~ thats true .
I don't think people should correct for no reason,that's just mean and we all make mistakes anyway.Most corrections are when the poster is being inflammatory or superior which winds people up.
Quite a lot ,if not all of my posts are garbled nonsense as I don't think carefully enough about the order of my words before I post and just type as I'm thinking!

It is often done when losing an argument as a last means of saving face or sometimes as a counter-attack when a person can't think of a clever rebuttal.

well, the ones that have corrected me either did not notice that I might be dyslexic or were being bitches.

I meant "aspects" obviously.... apologies