Yes, that seems accurate. Probably a similar phenomenon to "My country is lame but X country is much more interesting". People might put more effort into doing something properly when it's "New and exciting!"Furburt said:
Poll: Grammar Nazi-ism: Am there a point to it?
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they spelled epic and lulz wrongBillyShakes said:
Anyway I do it IRL just to annoy my friends, because it's entertaining. It gets annoying online when some dude puts up a five page post fixing grammar in 10000 posts, it's legit if your doing it for someone who's from (some parts of) euorpe or asia since english most likely isn't their first language.
TL;DR grammar and tha intarwebs are
Fair enough, and I did sort of pick on you because the thread was getting a little close to going on page 2 for my liking. Though I do get annoyed when people say "This" or "/thread" that really annoys me.AC Medina said:
I think it is most justified when it is for somebody whose native tongue is English.fanklok said:
Nothing makes me lose more faith in North America when I read something from somebody who cannot spell, punctuate, or generally understand English as a written language, when it is their only tongue.
I mean, I only comprehend English, so I figured if I only learn a single language, I should make an attempt to master it.
Is unsolicited grammar correction irksome?
Yes.
Should you get over it and not post threads whining about it?
Also yes.
Here's the deal. Grammar nazi's are trying to point out (consciously or otherwise) that they are more intelligent/better educated than you, you ignorant sop.
Are they? Probably not. But if you take the irritating needling as a bit of memory incentive, maybe it actually will teach you to not speak and type poorly in your everyday life.
On the other hand, everyone bitching about your/you're and there/their/they're and all such things need to sit back and remember that in a casual setting, grammatical rules need not be applied so heavily. It is the vernacular for a reason. Furthermore, if everyone were as uptight as you are, we would still be speaking old English. Fuck old English. Speech naturally evolves with time and that's as should be.
Finally, there is a point where natural slouching of one's grammar muscle goes too far. When you cease to be intelligible and instead sound a blathering simpleton, it is time to shut the hell up or start speaking correcting. I'm looking at YOU, poor Internet typists and speakers of the wholly fictional dialect known by cowards as "ebonics".
Yes.
Should you get over it and not post threads whining about it?
Also yes.
Here's the deal. Grammar nazi's are trying to point out (consciously or otherwise) that they are more intelligent/better educated than you, you ignorant sop.
Are they? Probably not. But if you take the irritating needling as a bit of memory incentive, maybe it actually will teach you to not speak and type poorly in your everyday life.
On the other hand, everyone bitching about your/you're and there/their/they're and all such things need to sit back and remember that in a casual setting, grammatical rules need not be applied so heavily. It is the vernacular for a reason. Furthermore, if everyone were as uptight as you are, we would still be speaking old English. Fuck old English. Speech naturally evolves with time and that's as should be.
Finally, there is a point where natural slouching of one's grammar muscle goes too far. When you cease to be intelligible and instead sound a blathering simpleton, it is time to shut the hell up or start speaking correcting. I'm looking at YOU, poor Internet typists and speakers of the wholly fictional dialect known by cowards as "ebonics".
really? 'LOL' has been used around people i know (me on occasion) for at least 3-4 yearsFurburt said:
OT: i am not a grammar nazi, as alot of the things i do or say are inside jokes, jokes in general, sarcasm, or just messing around to piss someone off for my enjoyment
if your a grammar nazi you must have an OCD for it, because its really not that big of a deal
unless its ghetto where it looks like this:
W|-|@+ 1S |_|P MI |-|0m1E$$$$
now that is just fucking annoying
otherwise, i couldn't give a fuck, and im happy the rest of the world isn't so uptight and likes to make a funny herez or therez
I have mixed feelings about grammar nazism. Sure, the last thing I want is the English language to be butchered, but correcting someone on some small mistake seems kind of dick-ish, for lack of a better word [small](if it's a big mistake, nazi away)[/small]. However, it's the only way the people making mistakes will learn.
I'll admit, I support grammar nazism to a certain extent. I hate it when people post things with atrocious grammar. "I ar tird of grmaar nasis" is an example of the poor grammar that makes me want to put the barrel of a loaded shotgun in my mouth and pull the trigger. This is where my "support" grammar nazism comes from.
However, I get pretty frustrated with grammar nazis myself. Their methods seem a little too cruel for their cause. As someone already posted, some grammar nazis just post their complaints and nothing else. And when they say that it's for the person who is posting badly, true as it may be, it seems pretty elitist [small](I'm saddened to use this phrase even though it's the best to describe my feelings)[/small].
I am saddened by the fact that it's the only way people making the mistakes will learn, though. I can't think of any other way.
I'll admit, I support grammar nazism to a certain extent. I hate it when people post things with atrocious grammar. "I ar tird of grmaar nasis" is an example of the poor grammar that makes me want to put the barrel of a loaded shotgun in my mouth and pull the trigger. This is where my "support" grammar nazism comes from.
However, I get pretty frustrated with grammar nazis myself. Their methods seem a little too cruel for their cause. As someone already posted, some grammar nazis just post their complaints and nothing else. And when they say that it's for the person who is posting badly, true as it may be, it seems pretty elitist [small](I'm saddened to use this phrase even though it's the best to describe my feelings)[/small].
I am saddened by the fact that it's the only way people making the mistakes will learn, though. I can't think of any other way.
I, myself, am a soldier in the Third Reich of Grammar*. I don't necessarily flame people for having grammatical errors and/or mistakes (unless they're completely incomprehensible), because this is a multiethnic site, and I can never be sure of whether they are truly "the Jews" of the Grammar Holocaust*, or if their post was simply lost in translation. However, I love going after people who insist on speaking in the foreign tongue of Aim on our site.seanthesheep said:
[small]*How are you liking all of these Holocaust jokes?[/small]
By the way, if any mods. are viewing this post, can you do the Escapist a huge favor and ban, or at the very least, suspend anyone who writes a thread or post containing any acronyms such as, "WTF, LOL, LMAO, ROFL", or anything else in that nature, in a non-sarcastic context. [sub]Excluding me, of course.[/sub]
Certain things annoy me more easily than others. Like someone handing me their resume with lack of spelling and/or punctuation. I've read resumes with no capital letters for names etc and words that really aren't that hard to spell at all. Me and my supervisor literally cringe when we read them, it's so bad.
I don't really understand why this needs to be put to a vote.
What you have to understand is that the people posting items on the internet may not have the same educational background as you. They could also be small children sneaking onto their parent's computers while they sleep or even handicapped. Being a so-called grammar nazi would be completely self serving, and whosoever engages in the act is most likely do so knowing that they do it fruitlessly.
Of course, this perspective excludes those persons who do it purposefully out of spite or in character, or assume it is in fashion.
What you have to understand is that the people posting items on the internet may not have the same educational background as you. They could also be small children sneaking onto their parent's computers while they sleep or even handicapped. Being a so-called grammar nazi would be completely self serving, and whosoever engages in the act is most likely do so knowing that they do it fruitlessly.
Of course, this perspective excludes those persons who do it purposefully out of spite or in character, or assume it is in fashion.
I think we've all seen enough misspellings or grammatical fuckups to be able to tell what someone's saying almost all the time. As long as you can tell what someone's saying, then grammar isn't all that important; all too often, in an argument, it's a way of dodging the point and looking more intelligent by way of being irritatingly picky. It should only be pointed out if you literally have no idea what they've said.