Correcting others’ grammar/spelling mistakes

mcem, your right, it's just an interesting concept a written telephone voice.

I agree though good to know when enough is enough.

I have degrees in English and have taught both GCSE, A Level and ESOL– no big achievement but relevant here – and would never correct another poster's spelling or grammar simply because that is discourteous. However, if the post is difficult to understand because of the use of language, I would probably ask for clarification. That is polite.

We didn't correct other people's spelling or grammar in the early days. We all agreed it was impolite. Why is it happening now?

There have been a lot of comments about this but I'm not sure its happening a great deal is it ?
Maybe other posters can give their experiences.

There's one poster in perticular who has rather brutally corrected grammar/spelling/punctuation with no reference to the content of the post, which I thought very rude. I can't remember her name but she's not been on this thread.

I wonder how long it will be before she does it again?

It rarely happens now. Been replaced by a need to control threads .

You can say that again Annie. (You can say ........)

You can say whatever you like Anniebach
(within GNHQ guidelines of course)

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Yes I too think it's really rude,arrogant and snobbish!!

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