For a while now, I have noted that there have been grammar nazis partaking in my posts to take jabs at me because of what word I used that opposed what word they think I should use. These prissy snobs are the kind of people whose lives would be interrupted over the tiniest things despite there being bigger things to worry about.
Nobody gives a shit about your over-correctness. It just makes you a target to be blocked. In fact, it inspires me now to deliberately make these so-called grammar mistakes just to piss you off. Oh, I use ‘is’ than ‘are’? Well fuck you, I’m going to continue using ‘is’ over ‘are’ just because I know now it makes you internally screech. Don’t like that I use ‘constantly’ than ‘continually’? Same deal, cry me a river, little grammar nazi baby.
it inspires me now to deliberately make these so-called grammar mistakes
Nah, fuck your petty anti-intellectualism.
Don’t write yourself off, learn to read and write.
I used the word ‘deliberately’. Oh! You don’t know the word ‘deliberately’! Therefore your reply is irrelevant! And you say I’m being petty! Look at you, telling me to read and write when you can’t even do it either! Hypocrite!
Oh! You don’t know the word ‘deliberately’!
Sound like something a grammer nazi would say.
Oh the irony…
It’s a shame to dismiss the mastery of language as mere pedantry, when in fact it’s a tool for precision and respect for those who read us. In an age when automatic correctors make writing accessible to everyone (including those with challenges like severe dysorthographia) deliberately choosing approximation is to miss an opportunity: the chance to rise above, to communicate without ambiguity, and to show that we value our audience.
Language is not a cage. It’s a bridge. Why settle for the easy path when, with a little care, we can open doors?
English has a hard enough time being exact as it is, so I do agree with your statement.
I doubt it is the fact they are corrected(using my perspective as I do not know this person), rather HOW they are corrected. Sometimes I see someone correct another using good natured wit and humour, being polite, and the target of said criticism takes it well and learns, other times they are quite unfriendly and harsh. I don’t mind correction that is polite, I will absolutely ignore the advice if rendered harshly and condescendingly.
This goes for other situations as well, not gonna go into them as several are landmines, but the approach to correction needs to be more friendly than aggressive.
I totally agree. Criticism should lift people up, just like the way it’s delivered. But meeting rudeness with more rudeness just doesn’t strike me as productive. No matter how unfair the original jab was.
Oh, I use ‘is’ than ‘are’?
Rather than.
…what word I used that opposed what word…
I think you mean which word, lol
There’s are two ways to deal with criticism:
Note the suggestion and do better next time.
Lash out at others for making you feel inferior.
One of these is much more mature than the other.
Being an illiterate asshat makes one an even bigger target to be blocked. Especially if you can’t be understood due to your poor grammar and spelling in spaces that communication happens entirely via text.
It’s not about you, but rather about those whom you teach.
I usually respond to a grammar nazi with ‘dats much more gooder’.
Sorry you got triggered. It’s possible they’re just hella proud of being good at using their language, but I agree, it’s completely unnecessary to correct a spelling if the message is still clear.
It’s not about being proud of your own skill. It’s about the arrogance of others to publish a text for a wide audience without putting in the effort to make it easy to parse. Apparently they think their own time is worth more than the tens of thousands who will attempt to read it, combined. There are tools to help with this so you have no excuse.
This is me — I like the art of language and I’m quite good at it. But the difference between being good at your language and being a “grammar nazi” is being pedantic about it.
There are a few things that annoy me enough to downvote someone, but only a few things and I think they’re particularly egregious mistakes, not typos or common mistakes. I will say in vague terms one of them is someone trying to sound smarter than they are but looking dumber as a result of not just using words they know how to use properly. For example, saying literally when you mean figuratively, though, that one does not bother me.
The thing to realise is (and what makes someone not a grammar nazi, IMO), is that if you understand what they’re saying, they’ve done their job adequately. Some of us older guys don’t like new words being made (like simp), or older words having their meaning changed (like cooked), but if you’re good with language, you know it’s a living, evolving thing that changes with the times. It may be cringe for an older person to use those words, but I think it’s fine if used correctly and sparingly.
Grammer Nazis, you say? TIL correcting grammatical mistakes is on the same level as slaughtering Jews.
Ik it’s annoying, but grow up dude, you ain’t the main character.
OP is just using the established name for these busy bodies.
