Correcting others’ grammar/spelling mistakes

A bit late in the day, maryeliza, but now I come to think of it, I can't remember seeing any grammar or spelling corrections on Gransnet.

Sorry 'that some seem to want to make......'

ally far from 'not pointing out glaring errors', I'm simply saying that seem to want to want to make some sort of impression by 'talking posh' and that it's just not necessary in a supposedly relaxed and informal situation like GN.

CBA

<sigh>
PR company?

CBA to continue this

bitter, twisted,angry, envious, jealous, sad life, gossipy old biddy etc etc
Ooh - not nice!
But I'm sure you can handle it without having to call in your PR people.

Given the amount of personal abuse I get dished out to me - bitter, twisted,angry, envious, jealous, sad life, gossipy old biddy etc etc - I just thought I’d call my PR company in.

Glass houses.

TAAT Jal naughty naughty naughty. But what I posted is true if shocking to some of you.Tough

Actually I don’t consider myself academically and intellectually superior to the rest of you but I know I am to some of you

That was quite a shocking thing to read on another thread too.

mcem

I think it is important that we just accept what comes. Everyone speaks in a different way, writes in a different way. Let's just read and comment on what is being said, no matter how it is put down.

It must be very difficult for you and others who can see the glaring errors that some of us make. All I can say is thanks for not pointed them out.

"Fennel Thu 07-Jun-18 12:45:43
Allygran
"These people hide in the anonimity of the internet and pseudonyms if they were fact to face you can bet it would be a different story."
If I'm one of those, I would say the same face to face as I've said to you via my pseudonym."

Fennel why did you associate yourself with my comments.?

mcem, you are correcting us ?

I'm largely in agreement with the feelings on this thread. As a ret'd teacher I twitch rather than cringe at some of what I read but don't offer corrections!
Have every sympathy with mistakes due to typo's , predictive text and certainly dyslexia.
Recently I have noticed a different set of mistakes and must assume they're due to snobbery (can't think of a better way to put it!)
Does it really 'sound more polite' to use I instead of me even when me is correct?
And what about whom when it should be a simple who ?
If everyone just relaxes and communicates naturally we should all be just fine.

Apart from being called duck by school mates for a few days Ally it didn’t bother me after those few minutes of squirming .

Yes , humiliating and deameaning people is something I cannot accept or understand

From my point of view, as long as the sense of the message is there, it is no-one's place to correct the spelling or grammar of someone who might not have had the educational privileges that I am lucky enough to have had. Their views and the right to be heard politely are paramount.

And we all put in typos, or have a bad day when we are less coherent.

It is about respect really.

I have a dyslexic DD who is a highly intelligent, kind and thoughtful person. I would hate to think that someone on a forum might keep correcting her spelling and not noticing the real person.

Allygran
"These people hide in the anonimity of the internet and pseudonyms if they were fact to face you can bet it would be a different story."
If I'm one of those, I would say the same face to face as I've said to you via my pseudonym.

Those were the days Anniebach. Blackboard dusters flying through the air, pieces of chalk being thrown at the boys at the back of the class. Standing in corners as you say humiliation for getting things like spellings wrong. Still it made us realise that those things were wrong. From the little I know about you having gleaned from your post's, I guess you are like me and just hate injustice, or people being humiliated, or demeaned in anyway.

Well said Synonymous.

No thought in my school days for children who had difficulties spelling, in junior school I was so humiliated when a teacher marked our essays and wrote on the blackboard my spelling of Duke of Edinburgh, I had written Duck of Edingbugh

So right Fennel. They do it "because they can"!

Cabbie21. Don't let those few make you fearful. You add to the conversation and say what you think. I have taken some flak on Gransnet, but you will see there are a lot of kind people who come to your aid.

Sometimes I felt quite battered, but the choice was give up and retreat and that is simply not a choice for me. It can be with just a few maybe a handful, less who cannot address the issues so they attack the person, it's the lowest form of argument and debate.

My advice for what it's worth is stay on the moral high ground. Try really hard not to respond in a similar manner...very tempting to tell them to f.... 0... Just don't. I have adopted a phrase...play the ball not the person. Whenever these few start to target me instead of the issue, that is mostly how I respond whilst thinking something quite different.

Believe me there are lot's of people who will support it you start to be bullied. These people hide in the anonimity of the internet and pseudonyms if they were fact to face you can bet it would be a different story.
So don't be bullied into retreat.

This thread has reminded me of some worksheets I devised for children with a spelling problem, full of deliberate mistakes. They loved doing them. Though our secretary found them difficult to type ( the days before computers.)
And another time working with a reluctant reader, I read, making deliberate mistakes and he loved correcting me.
It seems to be a sort of compulsion with some people.

Love that one Anniebach!