• @[email protected]OP
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    Nitpicking grammar isn’t just pretentious, it’s privileged. The validity of a statement is not determined by how expensive an education the writer’s parents provided them.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 year ago

      Wtf are you talking about? It’s not obscure grammar that you can only see in expensive textbooks. You just need to open your eyes.

      Why are people so adamant about not being corrected?

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        Man like it’s just so simple like being corrected on an opinion or any observation and it’s just a simple switch from “of” to “'ve” like no one even has to beg for you to use the ’

        Like sweet jesus man I don’t care if people have a different meaning now about this 🧢 that we put on our heads but man it’s such a simple thing to just swing a little bit to the side and use VE like you don’t even have to add a space man I just don’t understand the chaos I’m crying

      • @[email protected]OP
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        Wait, I don’t get it. Are you saying making a grammar mistake makes someone a shitty person? And not correcting grammar enables people’s bad behavior? Like being ungrammatical is morally wrong or something?

        And let me Google the def of pretentious real quick:

        attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.

        Correcting someone’s grammar online is absolutely a pretentious act. You’ve identified a grammatical mistake - which in this case isn’t even a mistake but a difference in dialect - and you feel the need to call them out on it? What possible benefit does that have except to show off your allegedly superior grammar and thus demonstrate your superior intellect, talent, culture, or whatever aspect of life you think grammar should be assigned to?

        • @la508
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          71 year ago

          Misspellings ≠ dialect

        • @daemoz
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          -71 year ago

          I like that you are winning this argument despite the downvotes by a majority of pretentious users.

          Do better lemmy

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      I never said their statement was less valid. Go make up things to be mad about somewhere else.

      • @Astroturfed
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        -121 year ago

        Someone called you an entitled douche so they must be angry. Oh ya, for sure.

          • @Astroturfed
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            1 year ago

            Such a solid argument. I don’t like an annoying thing you do, so I’m angry. So angry. Sorry that I had to be the one to tell you that no one gives a fuck about your English degree. It was a huge waste of money, but don’t take that out on the rest of the world by making them read you try to validate yourself.

            It’s almost like you have no original thought. As if you fall back on correcting others grammar and spelling because of how utterly unoriginal and vapid you are.

            • @[email protected]
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              81 year ago

              Are we having an argument? I thought you were just venting about how insecure you are about a single grammar correction.

              • @Astroturfed
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                -81 year ago

                Nope, not really I’m just telling you that nearly everyone thinks your the web forum equivalent of a cockroach.

                  • @Astroturfed
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                    -101 year ago

                    Oh man, up boats. The tell all sign. It’s almost like me being very rude to you probably sways opinion. It’s like the generally nice people here don’t tell you to fuck off as much as they should. I believe I made that point already.