I also participate in discussions like any other regular user, but I can't look away when I see somebody butcher the english language like that (and it isn't even my first language). It takes me 10 seconds to correct someone, and hopefully the corrected person makes less mistakes in the future. Nobody loses here, I don't see any harm in this, there are only good outcomes. Once you realize how many people can't write you start to see it everywhere. Maybe I'm just autistic, maybe I care too much.
That's my quirk
> It takes me 10 seconds to correct someone, and hopefully the corrected person makes less mistakes in the future.
Or the corrected person does it right 99 times out of 100 and was in a hurry (honestly not sure why that went wrong).
I agree with the sentiment of wanting to correct people, but it’s not always going to be correct.
Also, if you are going to do it, it works better if you at least pretend to be natural about it. I certainly would respond better.
To be fair, I’m pretty drunk right now so I don’t particularly care, but I’d probably be extremely annoyed if I were sober (even though you are technically right, I have a big dislike of people jumping on mistakes).
Maybe it’s worth seeing if there is a history of repeat mistakes? Then you could confidently correct someone.
If you only care enough to just leave a short impersonal comment on each instance, just leave off.
Sometimes I'm posting from my phone, and it autocorrects it wrongly. I know the difference between it's and its, but I'm not going to go back and clean up simple typos that don't prevent understanding of what I was trying to say.
Believe me, it sometimes prevents people from understanding. Not very common, but I had a couple of cases when I had to re-read a sentence until I finally understood what the author has meant.
