I am bit cross

There are many petty people about like this. I have even noticed on Gransnet sometimes that some people can be petty and I have read some quite unkind responses. It’s as if they get off on putting others down, maybe they have empty lives if they feel the need to do this.

It is easy enough to say that grammar doesn't matter and that no one judges. However, people do judge and those who write and publish online should be aware that they are putting themselves at a serious disadvantage if they litter their text with mistakes. No one except a true friend will ever mention it.

My old employer filed every job application with mistakes in the bin.

Loon extraordinaire who goes by the name of John Redwood, is cheerfully marching into the future with hoe and spade in hand exhorting the country to grow more food so that come the big jump there will be no food shortage as we will have our own.

Er! Shouldn’t we be doing it now? As the big jump has been requested by the loons to happen ASAP.

Bugger wrong post!!

Wish I could copy and paste

OP - that person needs to get a life
Pensionpat - I love the Literary Gift Company. They do 'Go away I'm Reading' mugs in several languages including Welsh in both NW and SW versions!

I find many grammatical errors mildly irritating but feel that FB is a COMMUNICATION opportunity and not a SAT's test...
neither would i be so rude as to point out other people's errors...
not my job...

mind you, as a retired teacher i do sometimes wonder if i wasted all my time teaching grammar ....

Agree with everyone who says it is rude to correct grammar on FB or GN. Dont worry Louli you arent alone, there are many mistakes made even with the auto check, just ignore these rude people.

I get inwardly annoyed when on fb I see people asking if they are aloud to post whilst selling a chest of draws it’s like a nail scratch on a blackboard but I d never say anything to them so yes I think it’s pretty rude

Totally agree with coconut on this. If we feel we want to post something on GN surely we don’t want to worry about being scrutinised for our grammar. Love the caption mug.

she must have a lot of time on her hands

Ignore it

Bluebelle surely its a “Chester draws”
It’s when the likes of estate agents invite me to “bare with them” that I wonder if they truly know who they are addressing

whitewave I can't see any grammatical errors in your post

I would go and pull up the beetroot which are languishing in the garden but it's raining. Does JR provide waterproofs too?

Would home-grown cooking apples keep well in a Chester Draws?

or should that be beetroots?
or even beetroot's?

To answer the OP, yes I think it is important that people write to the best of their ability (and pronounce things properly too). It might not cost us a job in the future, but it may cost our children/grandchildren.
But yes, unless these two are incredibly close, I think it is rude to correct other people's grammar. And yes, it irritates me when people say 'you and I' when it's the object of the sentence and should be 'you and me'.

I like the OP, so understated

^*I am a bit cross^*

I agree with Hm999’s post. I do think it matters, but it’s probably better not to correct anyone except one’s children. I hope anyone who is corrected would learn from it, even if they do feel offended.

Thank you for the it's / its explanation earlier, I had got it the right way round (or should that be around?) , my iPad seems to be set to random correction.

There are so many traps such as bare and bear in the English language which make for comic reading but usually the meaning is still quite clear. An apostrophe can make a difference to the meaning of a sentence so I do try to get it right, but probably often fail. I wouldn't correct anyone as it'd be too embarrassing - especially if I was proved wrong.

On your own FB feed of course you are free to use whatever speech you like, grammatically incorrect or not!
What I find unforgivable are the grammatical inaccuracies in official written news articles!

I agree it’s very rude to correct other people, but I do silently judge.

The main problem with correcting others is that you would never, ever, be allowed to make a mistake yourself.

How rood those peeples r hoo
correct uthers’’’ gramma and sintax and speling.Bad enuff havin spel chekers’ss spiing on us.

Once read a nice little sentence illustrating the importance of the comma. Made me chuckle. I love my parents Kermitt the Frog and Miss Piggy. Other version, I love my parents, Kermitt the Frog and Miss Piggy. ?

As a school governor, I used to have to read job applications from teachers. There was rarely a letter free of errors, and that included English teachers.

First time poster here (I'm a secret lurker and often smile at posts - or ooh and ahh with the best of them). I'm an editor/proofreader and author, so I interact on social media a fair bit - and wince regularly (my DD sometimes asks if I've developed a tic). However, I would never, ever, correct punctuation, spelling, grammar etc. uninvited. As others have said, autocorrect can be a plague, fat fingers and small phones don't help, and - at the end of the day - it's social media, so does it really matter? I'll carry on silently twitching until they become a client... :D

My smiley didn't work! How do you all manage to do them?