Grammar, Spelling Nazis should just get over themselves

[C95J]

If I'm honest, I don't give two shits if a comma or even a full stop is missing. I never notice it, and just carry on reading. It's the same with things like there/they're/their. I always (I think) use the correct grammar though, it's just how I naturally type. I probably make a few spelling mistakes now and then though, I'm not perfect (although I would say I'm pretty damn close). I would imagine it is pretty annoying though when someone just points out your spelling mistake, or incorrect grammar.

 

[SixWingedAsura]

No. I will NOT stop being a Grammar Nazi. If I do, first it'll be one small mistake, than another, and another and soon, people will simply stop giving a f**k! Grammar Nazis remind people that grammar IS important.

Or do you enjoy sounding/looking ignorant?

 

[suicide samurai]

Our shared languages (british and amererican "english") are used by a multitude of people around the world, and it is a living, breathing, evolving form of communication. With this "melting pot" of written and spoken English, expect change. Texting and the internet (fueled by a need for speed), things will only be moved towards a simplification.

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

I am a grammar nazi because it took so much effort to learn other languages that it annoys me to see people with a casual approach to them (i.e. it's their native language) make it so hard for foreigners to actually understand them.

If the idea is clear and the spelling mistakes not intentional, I'll probably let it slide (after all, no-one's safe from that), but anything like leet speak or lolcat speak gets an automatic red card. If they're not going to take the time and make an effort to make their post readable, I don't care to make an effort to try and understand the resulting mess.

 

[Mcupobob]

It can be frustrating since I'm a poor spelling. Not dyslexic, at least I don't think I am. I read perfectly fine just have trouble writing my ideas down. So here's my advice if your a poor speller. Get a spell check on your Internet browser and re-read, re-read, and re-read till it looks all good and dandy. Cause you gots to please the interwebs peplz!!!

And grammar Nazis, ease up a little damn. I can understand when someones speaking the L33ts or using shorthand or you outright can't read it but a missing comma isn't going to kill you.

 

[mjc0961]

If it's one tiny mistake, sure, people should probably back off. But if someone writes extremely poorly all the time to the point where it's painful, I say let other people call them out on it. I'm sick of people writing posts poorly across the internet and then when people ask them for clarification because the bullshit they just wrote is incomprehensible, they say "fuk u its knot an colege paper". No it's not, but that doesn't give you the right to make everything you want to say nearly impossible to understand and then give shit to people who ask you to communicate like a normal human being.

So to repeat, if someone makes a mistake here or there or they make an unimportant mistake, whatever. But come down and come down hard on people who want to make you read their utter nonsense writing just because they think you aren't worth writing normally for.

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Sometimes it is necessary to get the point across.

Indeed. On another forum I visit, we were gearing up to play a game together and one of the people who was going to play proclaimed "Let's rape men!" rather than "Let's rape, men!" to tell his team play well. Needless to say, we had a field day with that one.

Alright, OP, I have an image for just this sort of occasion. I'll put it in a spoiler tag because it's actually quite big.

Spoiler: Read this and learn its rules. Conform to them. You will become stronger.

This was funny at first, but about a third of the way through I had to stop. I also have this rebuttal for whoever created that:

Spoiler: Not too big, but I don't want to make this post huge due to a lot of text and an image.

 

[AwkwardTurtle]

i rely dnt lke it whn pple say grammr nazi its so dumb we should just use pple who know englsh jeez lke grammr adn spellg stff is so cool cuz lke wht fi we ddnt use stff like lttrz lol

Yeah...I actually had to stop and think about how to not spell stuff there. Now compare that to the following lines.

I really don't like the term Grammar Nazi, it has such a...negative connotation. I prefer the term "People who know how to properly speak English", but I suppose that's too long. To say that grammar and spelling don't matter is akin to saying we don't even need to use the alphabet anymore, let's all just make shit up.

The only way for language to work as a form of communication is if people who participate in this form of communication follow the established rules. Otherwise there is no language and communication is impossible.

Seriously Grammar and Spelling Nazis are the last bastion of hope in keeping language at all. Go on brave heroes of prose, keep fighting the good fight.

 

[mjc0961]

using something as petty as spelling and grammar to judge a persons intelligence is just as prejudice as using someones color of skin, religion or sports team preference.

...Okay wait, you did not just say that. No, it's not even remotely close. Giving people grief over their skin color or religion is not even close to just telling people to type properly so that people can understand what they are trying to say. I'm also going to pretend that you didn't lump sport team preferences in with the other two things because that's also ridiculous.

Why do people always have to overreach so far when they're trying to put forth an argument like this? Poor grammar and spelling isn't something you pick up depending on who your parents are like race, and it's not a belief system or faith like religion. It's something you choose to do out of ignorance, laziness, and/or lack of respect for your fellow man. Either you're doing it because you don't know better, in which case learning is good for you, or you're doing it because you just don't care, in which case pretty soon nobody is going to care for what you have to say. But people not appreciating your poor writing is not them being prejudiced against you.

 

[Poster1234]

Language is a way to communicate an idea, if someone doesn't use proper grammar, english, or spelling yet they communicate their idea clearly enough for someone to understand it is it really necessary to nit pick the little things?

People use spelling and grammar to judge a persons intelligence yet language is a very flexible and fluid thing, using something as petty as spelling and grammar to judge a persons intelligence is just as prejudice as using someones color of skin, religion or sports team preference.

So if your a grammar or spelling nazi just get over it and find something else to be OCD about.

No. Simply because, while someone's color doesn't give me any information whatsoever about that person, and doesn't bother me in any way, someone's illiteracy impedes my ability to understand what on earth that dude is trying to say.
Moreover, you don't get to choose your color of skin, but you do what the choice whether or not to use your own language properly.

Just as you said, language is a way to communicate ideas. In order for it to be practical, we invented rules on how to use it.
If I say "banane" instead of "banana", I can still understand myself, because I am french. A Russian won't understand either, though.

Simply because language is a mean of communication, we need to use the same one : if everyone got to choose their own rules, it simply wouldn't bloody work, and would defeat the purpose of the whole thing.

 

[Sebenko]

So if your a grammar or spelling nazi just get over it and find something else to be OCD about.

Sure. Just don't go expecting me to think of you as anything other than some stupid kid.

This is the internet, you are just words on a page. If those words are badly composed, it makes you look like a fucking halfwit.
Also, I see that it's only people unable to avoid a fuckload mistakes who complain about being corrected. Try doing it right.

TL;DR: I'm the sort of asshole who won't consider you a human being without at least an attempt at correct spelling and grammar.

 

[Bassik]

I am not a grammar nazi, because I don't have a huge stick up my bum, nor an "holier then thou" attitude. Also I'm not English by birth, so affcorse there's gonna be mistakes in my posts.

Those nazi's need to get over themselves, it's realy quite pathetic that they have to feel superiour in such a small way, because that's all it is, realy, it's a "look I am smarter then you" attitude, let's not hide it under semi-noble ideas like "we must save the English language!"

TL;DR: I'm the sort of asshole who won't consider you a human being without at least an attempt at correct spelling and grammar.

Does that make you feel proud of yourself? It's not realy any acomplishment, you know, just people on the internet that have less of a grasp on a language then you do. Maybe the people that offend your bum so much are not English? Or dyslexic? But no, affcorse not. You described yourself very accuratly.

 

[Queen Michael]

It's partly a matter of respect. If somebody can't be bothered to make sure she's used "they're" where she should, why should I be bothered listen to what she has to say?

Why did you use "she" instead of "they" or "he/she"? Are you insinuating that people who can't use "they're" correctly are normally girls? I'm very interested as to why you used "she" if the reason I stated is not correct.

Nope, it's because I figured that people always use "he" or something awkward like "s/he" or "they." I thought I might start using "she" as the default pronoun the way many use "he." But yeah, I'm aware that it might give the impression you're talking about.

 

[Iron Mal]

For the sake of annoying Grammar Nazis everywhere I shall proceed to write the following post with a complete lack of concern for any grammatical and spelling mistakes (in fact, I shall make them intentionally), I would ask for our Lexicon Facist friends to try and resist the urge to tear me a new one by actually considering the message I am getting across rather than the way I present it.

Ready?

GO!

u see, the big problem with getting offended or outraged by poor use of the english language or grammar is that alot of the time this ends with people ignoring WHAT is being sed in favour or going on a self rightious rampage about how its being said

imagine if we did this with any other form of communication like if we chose to ignore someone speaking to us in person because they made the grave error of dropping their Hs and Ts or ignorin a written down formula for a cure for cancer because it was on a crumpled post it note

i understand the problem u guyz have when something is written so badly to the point were u can't even decifer what the hell its supposed to mean (thats a different problem altogether) but gettin picky cuz they dont write as eloquently as u shows a certain degree of pettiness and arrogance cos teh way a message is delivered is largely inconsiquential compared to what the message is about (look at my cure for cancer example above)

overall. if your offended by what someone has written because of the MEANING behind it then fair enuff, thats a perfectly valid reason to be angry at someting. gettin angry because u dont like the text used to convey that message shows u ultimately care less bout what they wrote than ur accusin them of

And back to regular 'speech' (typing technically). If you are a certified Grammar Nazi and reisted the urge to rage at me then congratulations, there is hope for you yet. If you fell to your dark addiction, then please please go find a nearby cloning lab and screw yourself repeatedly.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Not speaking clearly is a faux-pas. Most of us are capable of doing so without any major hitches, and in most cases, failure to do so is a sign of bad manners, laziness and inconsideration.
Being that most of us are educated first-world citizens with internet access, there is no excuse for typing like a fucking imbecile. Because typing like a fucking imbecile usually means that you are one.
Seriously, I've read posts here from Swedish users who appear to have a batter grasp of English than their American or British counterparts. But they don't; they're just well-mannered.

If you've got dyslexia, fine. Firefox has a spell-checker. Lucky you.

 

[game-lover]

I apologize that it annoys you so but there's no way I can ease up on this kind of thing. I never make it a point to really correct anyone but good grammar and spelling is important Because particularly bad of both makes my eyes bleed and twitch.

You saw that poem out on the first page. It was an effort to get through. I kept pausing at random sentences trying to figure out what the hell is going on. Because you know what, it was hard to understand.

Maybe not at first. But that's the point. Everyone saying that as long as a person gets the gist of it, it's all good. No. No, it's not. I wanna read something and get it first shot. Not have to decipher what's written down.

And I guarantee that probably everything most people who dislike checking their spelling and grammar has to be deciphered. Like a puzzle or scrambled words.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

gize, OP has a good point. it doesnt matter if u write not well, all it matters is what u say n thats the only thing tht shuld matter when ur reading someone's else's work. I mean, if ur gnna critisize somone on there spelling then thats just being dumb and mean to everyone that dosen't want to take the time to learn the english langage in proper. Are we going to be zenophobic towards english people because they speak differently? no. So why does it matter if we butcher a standard form of english? OP, your right i think that every1 needs to losen up.

/thread.
OP: Proper communication is important. I can forgive mistakes like misspelling something, but doing what Blue_vision just demonstrated doesn't help anyone. It makes it hard on the reader and doesn't do any favors for your writing skills.

 

[Zarmi]

Yes, it is important to be a grammar and/or spelling nazi, because people have to learn their mistakes, get them corrected and then move on. Simple as that. You said it yourself, communication is important, hence why mistakes within communicating should be fixed.

 

[Ammutseba]

I don't support ignorance.

 

[Master Kuja]

I don't support ignorance.

Oh dear god this.
Just because ignorance is bliss, doesn't mean I'm going to let people get away with butchering the language.
I'm fully prepared to make people miserable for this cause.