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.
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.