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It’s annoying when people get pedantic about spelling on the internet, but at least you weren’t a massive, insufferable arsehole about it.
True, but is it pedantic? The same people that complain they can't find a job are the ones that make huge grammar mistakes in their applications or résumés.
I wouldn't hire someone who was too lazy to proofread over someone who wasn't; would you? And then why should that rule not apply to your fellows on the internet?
Sometimes if you don't point out people's mistakes, you're actually hurting their future selves
I think everyone nowadays is a bit too accepting of other people's faults to try to seem a bit more morally superior themselves, without realising that they're actually being abusive in the long term
Anyway, I'm not actually serious here, I just wondered who would actually read this far
I've found it's more effective to be a little funny instead of being an enormous cunt.
Nah, you're just coming off as a giant asshole. Correcting your vs you're on the internet is pedantic as fuck. Could have easily been an autocorrect or typo on their phone.
Please remember that everyone here isn't a native English speaker and neither does everyone use English in professional writing.
Only native speakers make the your you're there their they're mistakes.
What makes you think that?
Because they're just writing as they speak, whereas someone who learned English later in life should have a greater understanding that these are different words. I believe I've read about it before.
Here's a quick and dirty link to a discussion on the same topic.
Okay, guess that's one explanatio n. It just doesn't fit with what I see (as someone whose studied English for ~6 years). People in my class still confuse "you're" and "your" quite frequently.
I believe they were being sarcastic.
Since "would you?" is incomplete, a comma would be correct here rather than a semicolon.