Grammar correcters, where are we at with these atm, please?

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Twatty comments correcting loose/lose for example, or faux-not understanding a post. Obvs not answering the question or being helpful, just having a pop.

Can we get a feel for what to do about the grammer [sic] police. It really is NITS.

Thoughts?

Because the super twatty ones get deleted. Even there.

Pedants' Corner was created with a tongue in cheek name, but was never intended to be somewhere people who don't know nearly as much about language as they think can whinge about Americanisms or Chester Draws. There used to be some brilliant posters on there who really knew what they were talking about (Prism springs to mind) when it comes to language.

Cunning Linguists came much later and was originally aimed at language learning in general. Didn't really take off.

Oh god, yes.
Mind you, that one raises an eyebrow on every thread.
Though after TruckGate, there's probably been a namechange.

In case it's useful to know our take - if posts are reported to us for goady SPaG corrections we do often remove them.

If something is impossible to understand due to spelling or grammar errors then we'd also alter or remove a post on that basis.

Thanks Fliss!

Thanks all, much appreciated.

I wonder if there's something similar to code-switching going on. My grammar on mumsnet is awful. Commas all over the shop. I find that when I'm typing a message to a friend, on social media, or on a forum, my brain just automatically types stuff in the way I'd speak. I use commas and dashes to represent pauses instead of what they're actually meant for.

When I'm typing for work or for any more formal purpose, my grammar returns to it's usual respectable state. I have friends who write for a living and one who is an English teacher, and they all send messages with bad grammar even though I'm certain they wouldn't write that way in any other situation.

I'm interested to read people's points about assistive technology and people who don't speak English as a first language, so I will now strive to write properly on mumsnet

It’s one of those - I imagine that poster thinks they look oh-so-upper and clever and better-than but in fact it just makes me think they have seriously poor reading comprehension, because a child of primary school age should be able to understand contextually that an ice-cream truck is a truck or vehicle which sells ice cream. So you clearly do know what it is. I see that type of snobbery on here constantly - people announcing ‘I’ve never heard of that reality star/TV show/etc. Have you tried reading Moby Dick instead?’ It was rife on the ‘worst celebs’ thread.

And quite often I’ve also not heard of the celeb being mentioned but I can understand easily from the post that it’s a TV star. I mean if a thread is called ‘worst celebrities you’ve met’ and someone says xyz celeb was rude to me it’s obviously a celebrity, isn’t it? And if you don’t know who it is surely if you have the competency to post on mumsnet you could look it up? But no, they have to announce it. They think it makes them look clever but it’s the exact opposite.