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A couple accounts ago on , I was arguing with a lib and called their beliefs "inane".

They proceeded to correct me with "*insane, and they're not".

This is an American with English as their first and only language, I'm Chinese and English is my second language. Libs with vibes based politics absolutely get psychic healing from feeling "correct" even when they're objectively incorrect. They need to get one over whomever they're arguing with so they can feel superior. This leads to debate bro brain worms.

Me desperately combing this post for a grammatical error so that I can call it out...

I love "writing properly", because when I see a word properly spelled, or good grammar, my brain thinks it's pretty, so I really like spelling and grammar and so on.

But I know that linguistic prescriptivism is bullshit, and the first cop you have to kill before the revolution is the cop in your own head. So fuck that reddit ass "u misspelled your argument is invalid" bs.

GRAMMAR IS A TOOL OF OPPRESSION USED BY THE BOURGEOISIE TO PACIFY THE PROLETARIAT INTO A STATE OF DORMANCY AND COMPLIANCE!

RISE, COMRADES! RISE AND SHITPOST TO YOUR HEART’S CONTENT SO THAT OUR REVOLUTION WILL TEAR DEEP INTO THE VERY FABRIC OF OUR COMMUNITY!

No gods master's no grammar

I had some obnoxious, higher-ranked, reddit-energy colleague who's a fascist sympathizer correct me pronouncing "anticlimactic" by saying it's "anticlimatic". I didn't say anything but it felt good that others saw her fall on her face with that one, totally her own arrogance.

Humility goes a long way.

yeah ngl i love this site for communist reasons but also dyslexia reasons. between the nonjudgement/assumptions of good faith and the million emotes, communicating here is so much less scary than everywhere else online

well actually

I have typed so many statements with missing information that when reread didn’t quite make sense and have never been called out

oh yeah no same, I'm constantly proofing my own posts, either for flow or just general grammar mishaps. I've got it in my head–semi-fallaciously–that I have above-average English grammar for my demographic (that being undergrad first-language American) but I'm always brought back down to earth when I, once again, type seperate instead of separate, or something along those lines

The only memory I have of being corrected on grammar was when Emizeko corrected the title of my first Soviet gulag post because i spelt the title with "penial" instead of saying "Penal"

i am a strong believer that if intent and meaning is able to be interpreted from what you write, then structure and delivery or grammar isn't as important. I know a lot of grammer/english nerds will scoff at this but I don't give a shit. My favorite shit is those crazy ramblings or scribbled ideas that are only marginally connected to each other. Like the kind of unstructured ideas jotted down in a notebook with little to no structure. Love that shit.

I love writing and I get great joy from well written work, and if I find typos or errors in a book I'm very put off by them.

This, on the other hand, is a shitposting website. Anyone who shows linguistic pretentiousness while being one click away from fucking PPB is a nerd and should be bullied. Also not everyone's first language is English and not everyone has had the opportunity to study it to the same level.

First rule of knowing something: it doesn't make you better than people who don't!

Also language is flexible and constantly evolving. If the listener understands the speaker, the language was correct.

(anyone watch Simon Roper's videos on YouTube? Dude studies linguistics of English from all periods of history, but he's so chill about it)

Pedantic correction of spelling and grammar?

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I appreciate this aspect of the community as well.

I think that most people have the ability to gather context queues and understand that I meant “their” but typed “there”.

Correcting people’s grammar when the context is already understood is such “smartest person in the room”, libshit behavior. I hate it so much and get so mad at my friends for doing it. There is no reason to break up the flow of conversation just to call out my honest typo and prove they are better at dumb English than I am or whatever.

There’s no such thing as grammar communist, after all

agreed. I've been here for awhile now and I've noticed that I'm wayyyyy more relaxed typing here than anywhere else online. Feels like I can let my guard down and sorta ramble without anyone coming after me for saying something that doesn't make 100% sense.

Basically thanks for letting me vibe post, it's chill as hell

I'm sorry for the moments where the impulse has gotten the better of me, I try to spoiler tag appropriately. I just want to help!

I feel a strong compulsion to point out that the title of your post should have a period at the end. If it weren't about grammar I wouldn't have noticed.

this is because i have a mortar trained on whoever even thinks about correcting my shitass gramar/spelling unasked for

*You're're've

caring about grammar in casual contexts is cop behavior, do whatever you want with punctuation it's not hurting anyone

I wonder if correcting spelling is just becoming less common in general on the internet.

I will admit that I am anal around people using words correctly, like not vulgarizing 'gaslighting ' to mean 'having a different opinion based off of a different interpretation of events.' but I could care less about grammar.

I just don't care about grammar lol, English is a stupid language anyway