I've stopped correcting people's grammar and/or spelling.

Sduibek

Sduibek

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One of my teachers at college used "alot" recently and that was the final decision-making occurrence after a bunch of other instances.... so many people do stupid stuff with English in this country (USA) and on The Internet that it's just not worth it to care. Now if they say "Your definately correcting my grammer alot" it doesn't get to me for any more than a few seconds.

I still think most of the errors are ridiculous and comical, but ultimately, correcting people usually only makes things worse.

I mean besides, for all we know, English is their second language. :shrug:


What about you, The Internet At No Mutants Allowed? What annoying habit have you broken lately?


EDIT: Thanks Sander, Mikey, Buxbaum and Jebus for noticing my incorrect apostrophe usage. lol, I just said "Thank you Jebus" :D
 
I used to always play with my earlobe for some reason, whenever I would get stressed out usually. It would get sore from me messing with it so much, so I had to exert a lot of will to break the habit.
 
TorontRayne said:
I used to always play with my earlobe for some reason, whenever I would get stressed out usually. It would get sore from me messing with it so much, so I had to exert a lot of will to break the habit.
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I can one-up you there. I giggle when I'm nervous and holy shit, it's not fun trying to explain that you're not really laughing at some guys terrible problems lately, or getting giggly about some other tragedy.
 
Hoxie said:
TorontRayne said:
I used to always play with my earlobe for some reason, whenever I would get stressed out usually. It would get sore from me messing with it so much, so I had to exert a lot of will to break the habit.
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I can one-up you there. I giggle when I'm nervous and holy shit, it's not fun trying to explain that you're not really laughing at some guys terrible problems lately, or getting giggly about some other tragedy.
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Heh. I get that when I get told about unexpected deaths.
 
Re: I've stopped correcting peoples' grammar and/or spelling

Sduibek said:
.. correcting people only makes things worse.
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As a self-educated English speaker, I would really appreciate any grammar or spelling correction, gentlemen. Feel free to correct me anytime.
 
Damnit I thought this was an alec post, or hoped it was; a Buxbaum post? But it's you and AFAIR you don't spend 50% of your posts correcting grammar (alec) or just telling people to leave this planet (buxbaum).

I have this annoying habit of being an asshole that I'm trying to kick. I'm making progress.
 
alec said:
mobucks said:
I have this annoying habit of being an asshole that I'm trying to kick. I'm making progress.
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No, you are not.
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LOL. Classic.

And why would it be people's? That's what I had originally but I'm pretty sure it's peoples' because it's referring to a group.

The next thing I need to stop doing is ripping out my eyelashes.
 
Sduibek said:
And why would it be people's? That's what I had originally but I'm pretty sure it's peoples' because it's referring to a group.
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'People' is already plural, you can't pluralize it by adding an 's', unless you're talking about multiple peoples - that is, multiple, distinct groups of people.

But you're not. You're talking about one group of people, whose behavior you're no longer correcting. One group of people = people, not peoples.

Easy demonstration:

I have stopped correcting the grammar of people => I have stopped correcting people's grammar.
 
Sander said:
Sduibek said:
And why would it be people's? That's what I had originally but I'm pretty sure it's peoples' because it's referring to a group.
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'People' is already plural, you can't pluralize it by adding an 's', unless you're talking about multiple peoples - that is, multiple, distinct groups of people.

But you're not. You're talking about one group of people, whose behavior you're no longer correcting. One group of people = people, not peoples.

Easy demonstration:

I have stopped correcting the grammar of people => I have stopped correcting people's grammar.
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Ah! Thank you :salute:

Like Valcik, I actually prefer being corrected. But then again I find language fascinating and have perfectionist tendencies, so :shrug:
 
Never being able to do anything and just sitting in front of the computer, without really wanting to play anything or surf the Internet. This lazyness had better get the fuck out, I'm pissed because I miss out on the fun things.
 
The only thing I cannot stand for the love of god is when people use shit like "2" instead of "too" or "two", "u" instead of "you" etc.

I am often doing grammar mistakes too, but deliberately talking like a retard with all this "u" bullcrap is pissing me off. It has something to do with etiquette and respect, even if we are just talking on the internet. People often use the excuse "lol I don talk liek this in real life u grammar nazi xD" but this is not the fucking point.

Funny thing is, I correct people in english language more than I do in my mother language. A friend constantly uses a certain word wrongly and I kinda got used to it, nowadays it's more like his trademark to me. :P


Absolute failures are doing " ´" or " ' " wrongly though, or inserting it in wrong words, like we had in this thread already. In germany, we call this the "Deppenapostroph". ;)
 
I'm a first year high school English teacher in Texas, US, and this morning our principal saw the lesson plans that I had submitted (for English I, II, and English II Advanced Placement) and made sure to meet up with me in the faculty office as I was printing my handouts.


"Hey, you can't teach the lessons you sent me."

"Oh, I hadn't realized. What would you like me to change?"

"Don't spend anytime teaching complex sentences. You have to teach simple sentences."

"We met up as the English department and decided to move strict STAAR [new state-mandated exam] teaching to the end of the year, for all subjects."

"Teach simple sentences every day, every class. No sentences with commas or they'll make a mistake, got that?"

"Ugh, yes sir."


The new exam requires knowledge of grammar for the first time in twenty years. Since students are grading by their amount of mistakes, if a comma is used incorrectly (which happens because of a poor education system), they will be marked off for it: if students make five mistakes in one paragraph, they are deemed illiterate. If every sentence looks like this: "I went to the store to get some bread. I ran into my uncle at the store. My uncle bought the bread for me," then no one is considered by the state to be illiterate.

Over sixty percent of our students failed the writing portion of the STAAR exam last year. Our high school is over 3,000 students strong. Thought I'd share.
 
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