I Confess I Am A Grammar Nazi

@CountScrofula yes. I don’t jump in and correct anything ... like I want to . 😉

@CountScrofula Maybe because everyone isn't so lucky..duh. But yeah, it's easier to hate everyone and everything, than to actually try and change something. Imagine if world became a better place! EW.

@Melpomene I'm not sure if you've spoken with other people before, but I find they REALLY don't like it if I nitpick their grammar unless they've asked me to.

@CountScrofula No, I have never spoken with anyone. I'm just annoyed because it's a trend now to be a Grammar Nazi, so there isn't any real reason actually. 🙄

@Melpomene lol, I am being facetious. My point is that if you just call people out on their grammar it pisses them off because it's a statement of "I am smarter than you" and nobody likes that. If someone wants help with their writing or to have a concept explained I'm always game though.

@CountScrofula How would you feel if someone kept making mistakes, especially bigger ones? Wouldn't you prefer to be corrected so you'd know better rather than tolerate mistakes? I usually avoid such people, especially since I barely have any contact with English irl.
Funny, I now realized I never wrote how I don't correct them, just that I despise seeing bad grammar. Of course, everyone had to point out my ''mistake'', mark me as a hypocrite and can only describe me as 🤦🏻‍♀️.

@Melpomene Haha, well if I get snooty and correct someone I'm opening myself up to having errors pointed out. It's impossible to write English perfectly though since it comes down to region, context, and style. I also don't mind people pointing out my mistakes because I want to write well so I don't take it personally. My ego isn't tied to my sentence structure, which is good considering how many profs I work with.

If someone consistently makes the same mistake I may point it out, depending on our relationship. Particularly if it's one they'd be embarrassed to know - at that point it's like pointing out that someone has something in their teeth.

With random online interactions it's only an issue if I honestly can't figure out wtf they're saying.

@CountScrofula I've received messages that didn't even look like English....or any other language I could think of.
My ego might be big, I admit. I'll usually try to correct myself if I see I'm wrong, but I still have confidence because I spent so many years learning and using it. Also, whenever I lack confidence, I take a look at an American movie with lots of argot. If they can speak like that, I can speak like this. On the other hand...we're losing our beloved Grammar.

@Melpomene Well, our beloved grammar is changing. Every generation bemoans what the next one is doing to language. Dictionaries and style guides describe rather than define. If everyone uses a word that's not in the dictionary, it will end up in the dictionary.

The most important thing is to impart your meaning clearly. Is the idea in your head received in the way you want it to be received? Grammar gives us rules we're all trained on (to varying degrees) to ensure that happens.

@CountScrofula I understand that and I know it's inevitably. But which way will our beloved grammar go? Losing punctuation, bad spelling, abbreviations.. What will be left of it? Only dictionaries and some ''old'' books, from the times people used to write on a piece of paper instead of typing?
And that time isn't so near. Most of people are still using it. Just not on the internet. 😤