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> I'll watch my English better. I think your english is perfectly fine and that "mistake" wasn't worth nitpicking over. We're an international community and we
by teh_klev 5y ago
> I'll watch my English better.
I think your english is perfectly fine and that "mistake" wasn't worth nitpicking over. We're an international community and we need to let some things go for the sake of maintaining our sanity.
- samhw 5y agoI don't think every spelling correction has to be taken as an attack, as is implicit in your comment. I'm glad to have people correct me when I'm wrong, since it makes me better at whatever I'm doing. It seems to me what's unhelpful is not correction, but the feeling that one must always be correct, that there's no room for growth. That being said, I think it's absolutely fair enough for the parent commenter not to know that. Their English is certainly better than my Czech. For Americans - divided by a common language - it's a more bewildering (and bewilderingly common) mistake.
- ralph84 5y agoEnglish is defined by usage. If enough people make the same “mistake”, it’s not a mistake.
- samhw 5y agoHaha, yes, we're not nearly at that point yet. It's not quite that common...
- teh_klev 5y agoOh I didn't see it as an attack, just not that necessary. Also I'm based in Scotland and english is my first language, but I've learned to relax a bit as I get older, even with Americans and their torturing of the language :)