Grammar Police - A plea

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you can understand the poster's intent, for the love of all that is good, would you please let it go? I cringe when I notice a mistake in an otherwise interesting post because now I'll have to wade through all the posts about the grammar that don't address the actual subject. Those are boring posts, y'all. Let. It. Go. The people who care already noticed the mistake and the ones that don't care, don't need to see the correction. If you must, print it out and use your red pen.

Don't you want people to help you get better at it?

If not in this anonymous forum, when and where will you have such of obvious chance to improve?

Not here, no! I'm not particularly careful when I post here, so I don't need your corrections. Also, many people doing the "correcting" have errors in their own posts. This is not the place for that. Also, so many of the mistakes are just obvious typos or autocorrect errors. If you want to improve your skills, pick up a copy of Strunk & White or something, don't come to DCUM. Do you people actually think you're helping?

Lady, the point is how to improve YOUR skills! Do YOU have a copy of Strunk & White?

Perhaps you should work on your reading comprehension first.

Goodness. Have you ever heard of the use of the word 'you' to mean a general 'you'? Let me clarify. I meant, if one wants to improve her skills, that person should pick up (and yes, read) a book that would help. One should not come to an anonymous casual forum such as this and believe whatever she is told about her grammar. Many of the corrections here are wrong; most are unnecessary.

Your general "you" certainly does not include me. May I suggest that general you to try a bit harder, and write a bit better?

As shown in your latest post, it's perfectly possible. So, what's the fuss about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Your general "you" certainly does not include me. May I suggest that general you to try a bit harder, and write a bit better?

As shown in your latest post, it's perfectly possible. So, what's the fuss about?

[Anonymous]

I really hated the quotation marks around correcting. True sarcasm can be delivered without unnecessary emphasis.

Work on your tone.

[Anonymous]

Grammar police you will meet karma one day like I did, all high and mighty and educated I was and so superior to all those they're/their/there and it's/its people and God/karma thought I could use some empathy so I now have two boys, both with dyslexia, and now I see the light and I will never again correct anyone who is just honestly trying to communicate the best they can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you can understand the poster's intent, for the love of all that is good, would you please let it go? I cringe when I notice a mistake in an otherwise interesting post because now I'll have to wade through all the posts about the grammar that don't address the actual subject. Those are boring posts, y'all. Let. It. Go. The people who care already noticed the mistake and the ones that don't care, don't need to see the correction. If you must, print it out and use your red pen.

Up I will not give!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you can understand the poster's intent, for the love of all that is good, would you please let it go? I cringe when I notice a mistake in an otherwise interesting post because now I'll have to wade through all the posts about the grammar that don't address the actual subject. Those are boring posts, y'all. Let. It. Go. The people who care already noticed the mistake and the ones that don't care, don't need to see the correction. If you must, print it out and use your red pen.

No. We generally recognize typos, autocorrects and ESL speakers, but if you're too stupid, ignorant or lazy to make even a minimal effort to write comprehensibly then you've got it coming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you can understand the poster's intent, for the love of all that is good, would you please let it go? I cringe when I notice a mistake in an otherwise interesting post because now I'll have to wade through all the posts about the grammar that don't address the actual subject. Those are boring posts, y'all. Let. It. Go. The people who care already noticed the mistake and the ones that don't care, don't need to see the correction. If you must, print it out and use your red pen.

Up I will not give!

No not you must ever!

[Anonymous]

For those of you who do not like the grammar police comments just report them. They add nothing to the conversation and derail the topic.

I think I will start doing so because I find it obnoxious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who do not like the grammar police comments just report them. They add nothing to the conversation and derail the topic.

I think I will start doing so because I find it obnoxious.

So you are a tattle? No one likes you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who do not like the grammar police comments just report them. They add nothing to the conversation and derail the topic.

I think I will start doing so because I find it obnoxious.

Yes, flood Jeff with reports of people correcting grammar. This can only NOT be even more obnoxious than the people correcting the grammar....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I use my mobile to post and boy do I make the worst mistakes. It's that dammed autocorrect. Some of my posts are illegible. Sorry, grammar police!

Damned. The word is damned.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you who do not like the grammar police comments just report them. They add nothing to the conversation and derail the topic.

I think I will start doing so because I find it obnoxious.

Yes, flood Jeff with reports of people correcting grammar. This can only NOT be even more obnoxious than the people correcting the grammar....

Actually he encourages reporting posts that derail or add nothing to the topic. Especially when a topic is new because it sets a tone.

Grammar nazis are not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts they are doing it to point and laugh and get a little jolly from it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who do not like the grammar police comments just report them. They add nothing to the conversation and derail the topic.

I think I will start doing so because I find it obnoxious.

Yes, flood Jeff with reports of people correcting grammar. This can only NOT be even more obnoxious than the people correcting the grammar....

Actually he encourages reporting posts that derail or add nothing to the topic. Especially when a topic is new because it sets a tone.

Grammar nazis are not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts they are doing it to point and laugh and get a little jolly from it.

He encourages people to report grammar police (nazi offends me)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who do not like the grammar police comments just report them. They add nothing to the conversation and derail the topic.

I think I will start doing so because I find it obnoxious.

Yes, flood Jeff with reports of people correcting grammar. This can only NOT be even more obnoxious than the people correcting the grammar....

Actually he encourages reporting posts that derail or add nothing to the topic. Especially when a topic is new because it sets a tone.

Grammar nazis are not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts they are doing it to point and laugh and get a little jolly from it.

He encourages people to report grammar police (nazi offends me)?

He encourages reporting posts that derail the topic or add nothing to it but nastiness. As I stated.

[Anonymous]

How many grammar postings are you actually wading through that this is a real problem for you?

I'd like to see an example of a thread where more than three posts interrupted your pleasant scroll from page to page to an extent that was truly horrible.

Here's a tip - you don't need to read every post. At the first word that indicates the post is about grammar rather than the topic at hand, skip to the next one.