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[periwinkle]

Unless it really annoys me, I can't be arsed. I have enough writing assigments to correct for my own students (if I see someone write "flatted" or "more safety" one more time, I'm going to eat my own finger).

I had a hard time restraining myself from correcting the clerk at Home Plus yesterday. I don't get why Koreans are taught "sir" and not "miss" or "ma'am".

[Scott in HK]

I think true errors should be corrected but so few of the errors posted on the board are real mistakes. Usually they are just mental miscues or laziness...saw it...know it is wrong...can't be bothered to change it...

I wish all those correcting would take the time...or the gain the knowledge to distinguish between real errors and simple miscues.

Correct when it impedes comprehension, otherwise leave the poster alone.

[Dan The Chainsawman]

YER all right! U all ROCK! Power to the PEOPLE! Crappy grammarians UNTIE!

[Col.Brandon]

Think of it as an opportunity to improve yourself. I'm guilty of having pointed out the odd error on occasion. If it was me, I wouldn't want to look like an arse and would want to know - especially if it was a glaring error.

Not many people care these days; in my opinion it's a sorry reflection on the standard of Western education, but then I also have to unwind a twisted telephone cable if I see it. Call me pedantic.

You may loose you're temper at me, but as an English teacher your the person you're students look up too, so you should endeavour too maintain a high standard so that students will have a good roll model, to.

Who has seen the T-shirts around the place which read, "Thats hot, Your not," or words to that effect. It's the first step to anarchy, I tell you

OK, you can flame me now.

[lastat06513]

If people make mistakes, so be it. I think we all are stressed by the end of the day, so writing on Dave's is one of the stress-relievers we have.
By the time people get home, most would say "to hell with the standards, this is MY rant on MY time."

Why be a teacher when you don't have to?

True, we are all held to a professional level of proficiency at work. But why should we be policed while expressing our thoughts on our own time?

I think some people do it because it makes them feel superior because they can catch mistakes some people don't notice or are too drunk to notice or too tired to notice after writing their posts. It is their way of insulting a person's intellect. But thats if the person even cares about what others are correcting them about, that is.
If you correct people because of that....well......you know.....

[Red]

[lastat06513]

Red~ I have to agree with you on that one.

[hypnotist]

I'd be all for it. Trying to read posts littered with terrible grammar gives me a headache.

Perhaps limit it to this forum, though.

[fidel]

I'd have to agree, if you correct someone's grammar and spelling because you have no better way of contributing to the discussion, then you are a dipshi t. If however some poster has made it his business to correct someone's elses post ,while making errors in their own, then it is only proper to point out the error of his/her ways and make them look like the dipshi ts they obviously are.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[dogbert]

[TheUrbanMyth]

I wasn't finished editing yet. I hit the submit button by reflex, rather than the preview button. It's a bad habit of mine.

And anyway like I said, if you spell a word once incorrectly it's not a big deal. But when it is spelled incorrectly EVERY time AND the poster talks about "high standards" THEN it should be pointed out. But just for you, I fixed it.

[MixtecaMike]

Never mind the bad grammar and spelling in posts, some of you would be horrified at the multitude of spelling mistakes and even grammatical errors in job applications.

I vote for the option to have another 30 "Spelling Moderators" to correct the drunken ramblings of the Saturday morning posters. I think Ajuma could be Spelling Super-Mod.

[Col.Brandon]

[mindmetoo]