I am bit cross

Yes you are right - typos and autocorrect to add to our own misdemeanours

I am going to buy one of the mugs...brilliant.

I hate bad grammar, spelling etc but it has to be understood that when anything is typed on social sites it is generally speed or 'fat finger syndrome' which we all suffer from and is therefore acceptable as far as I'm concerned. It is far more important on public signs, leaflets, magazines etc

Yes, correcting another person for a grammar mistake or a spelling mistake is very rude.It happens in lots of places, including GN.Some have no social awareness.

There is a very good reason for the rules in grammar, including the apostrophy and the standard of spelling is often appalling, but I would never point it out to someone on FB, although I might make an answering comment, using the incorrect word properly spelt. I have no problem with people not knowing the plural for words such as gymnasium as not many of us were taught Latin at school.

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

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

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.

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. ?

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

I like the OP, so understated

^*I am a bit cross^*

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'.

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

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?

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

she must have a lot of time on her hands

Ignore it

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.

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

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 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 ....

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!