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Nice people also judge those who try to shame people (not all of whom are native speakers of English) into silence on health-related forum threads by picking on
by mechanical_fish 13y ago
Nice people also judge those who try to shame people (not all of whom are native speakers of English) into silence on health-related forum threads by picking on irrelevancies.
- delluminatus 13y agoYes, let's ignore non-native English speakers' mistakes. That way, they will never learn, and we can continue to subjugate them, along with those for whom English is a first language, but cannot speak it correctly, probably because they were never taught that "should have" is not spelt "should of" and that their "they're"s aren't quite there.
- mechanical_fish 13y ago"Spelt", in my dialect, is incorrectly spelled, and is a noun referring to a variety of wheat. Now, was the "correction" I just offered you effective and useful, or was it merely irrelevant, provincial, chauvinistic, uninvited, uninviting, and just plain rude? (A note to downthread grammar trolls: I just used an Oxford comma, boldly, without apology. Have fun.)
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- dctoedt 13y ago> those who try to shame people ... into silence on health-related forum threads That's a bit overstated. But mechanical_fish is right that that my own choice of words could have been more tactful. That's why I changed "Syntax correction" to "Syntax tip" in the GP.
- egypturnash 13y agoI like to deliver my occasional spelling correction comments like this: "Polite spelling correction: word, not werd". Opening the comment with "polite" seems to be a very good way to flag that you're not trying to engage in any power games or whatnot.