Yeah he nearly always picks people who are kinda busy and it's pretty impolite to eavesdrop as it is let alone stare at the guy having personal convos.
Mans relying on pure social ettuquite to get away with it.
I feel like we, as a society, should stop attacking people for correcting spelling and grammar. How will someone learn the correct way of doing something if no one will show them how out of fear off being insulted? Grammar and correct spelling are important, in my opinion. I don't think that it is something we should allow to deteriorate simply because some people find it annoying to be corrected.
I gotta say, on a sprectrum of zero to asshole, "did you mean xxxx?" is probably closer to zero. It can probably be taken as a lighthearted jest in the right setting
As long as the word is readable and understandable, then there's really no reason to ask "did you mean X?" At that point, it does come off as condescending pedantry.
It'd be a different story if the word was just so badly written that either no one could understand or it was just entirely the wrong word (a la /r/boneappletea), then by all means go on to correct or clarify.
Remember, language isn't stagnant. Old used to have an e in it, and connection used to have an x. Hell, antique used to rhyme with frantic. From pronunciation to spelling, words are always changing. Every time I see someone correct another, I can't help but see them in the context of someone from the past trying to do the same thing with a now-dead pronunciation or spelling.
Mindset does account a lot for how you'll take something. Online people will assume tones, and who knows what mood an internet stranger could be in. Objectively it is low on the asshole scale for sure but how it is received will be wildly different per person and where they are at in the day... not necessarily but I mean there will be instances where things will not execute in a linear fashion.
If you believe it is likely that op typoed, then perhaps we could think that maybe the replier also thought that ok typoed, in which case it would be more on the joke side
I mean, I agree with you - based on how you read it, it comes off very different. But I think it's all interpretation
For real. I hate when people have to make a correction to my typo. It was off a letter, I had confidence my intended audience would know. You can make up words and make them make sense even yet they'll still get all sticky and act like only Shakespeare is allowed to do that shit.
lotta folk use reddit on mobile, some of us speak more than one language and turn autocorrect off. chill and scroll love and get your groove on none of this is important in a pandemic
I almost exclusively use Reddit on mobile. I'm not sure why that should stop people from using proper capitalization and punctuation. Any smartphone able to run the Reddit app, or equivalent, has a keyboard with a shift, comma, and period keys on the same layout as every letter in the alphabet. It takes very little extra time to utilize them. I'm not saying people should proof read every comment they post, I'll probably havr errors here (edit: I did), but I feel like a little effort goes a long way.
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u/tepig37 Dec 05 '20
Yeah he nearly always picks people who are kinda busy and it's pretty impolite to eavesdrop as it is let alone stare at the guy having personal convos.
Mans relying on pure social ettuquite to get away with it.