• li10@feddit.uk
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    27 days ago

    It’s annoying when people get pedantic about spelling on the internet, but at least you weren’t a massive, insufferable arsehole about it.

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      27 days ago

      True, but is it pedantic? The same people that complain they can’t find a job are the ones that make huge grammar mistakes in their applications or résumés.

      I wouldn’t hire someone who was too lazy to proofread over someone who wasn’t; would you? And then why should that rule not apply to your fellows on the internet?

      Sometimes if you don’t point out people’s mistakes, you’re actually hurting their future selves

      I think everyone nowadays is a bit too accepting of other people’s faults to try to seem a bit more morally superior themselves, without realising that they’re actually being abusive in the long term

      Anyway, I’m not actually serious here, I just wondered who would actually read this far

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        27 days ago

        Nah, you’re just coming off as a giant asshole. Correcting your vs you’re on the internet is pedantic as fuck. Could have easily been an autocorrect or typo on their phone.

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        27 days ago

        Please remember that everyone here isn’t a native English speaker and neither does everyone use English in professional writing.

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              26 days ago

              Because they’re just writing as they speak, whereas someone who learned English later in life should have a greater understanding that these are different words. I believe I’ve read about it before.

              Here’s a quick and dirty link to a discussion on the same topic.

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                26 days ago

                Okay, guess that’s one explanatio n. It just doesn’t fit with what I see (as someone whose studied English for ~6 years). People in my class still confuse “you’re” and “your” quite frequently.

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        26 days ago

        I wouldn’t hire someone who was too lazy to proofread over someone who wasn’t; would you?

        Since “would you?” is incomplete, a comma would be correct here rather than a semicolon.