Tongue-Clucking Grammarian

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   'Tis Himself, OM

   September 30, 2011 at 3:38 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Still, I promise never to actually say any of these things out loud.

   I can be erudite to the point of being pedantic.

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   Stephanie Zvan

   September 30, 2011 at 10:22 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   That never happens to anyone around here.

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   P Smith

   October 1, 2011 at 2:49 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Critiquing someone’s poor writing is a no-win situation unless you’re a teacher.

   But that doesn’t mean you have to respect a cretin or his opinion. You can tell a cretin that his inability to write shows that his view is a worthless as he is, without resorting to correcting it. It can also be an opportunity to ridicule them:

   Cretin: “your a moron”
   You: “Are you telling me that your my moron, that you belong to me? I don’t want you.”

   Or to ridicule their views even when spelt correctly:

   Cretin: “In christ” (as a closing to a post or email)
   Me: “So you’re still fucking the corpse?”

   The morons who cannot spell correctly can be “grammar nazis” as much as anyone. I’ve lost count of how many idiots try to “correct” me for words like spelt, dreamt, colour, grey, centre and or using phrases like “I haven’t any” instead of “I don’t have any”. I’m not being “high brow”, that’s how I was educated.

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   Silvermute

   October 2, 2011 at 8:05 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   You: “Are you telling me that your my moron, that you belong to me? I don’t want you.”

   You’re.

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   Biodork

   October 3, 2011 at 8:39 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

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