Has "Spelling and grammer" Ever Corrected One of Your Posts?

NOPE! He should of stopped reading mine a long time ago cuz I'm perfect.

Grammarific wrote: I have not seen him post in some time and I started wondering about this.

He's on vacation. Who gave you permission to skip reading a few posts?

S&G posted, some weeks back, that s/he was going on vacation.

Sorry that I haven't been able to pick up the slack, but just now I'm working 12 on/12 off, seven days a week, and helping posters with their s&g has not been at the top of my to-do list for a while.

I don't need S&G to correct my posts, in any case. Plenty of other people have done that. I'm never offended. I love learning more about standard English.

grammatarian. wrote:

NOPE! He should of stopped reading mine a long time ago cuz I'm perfect.

"should have .... "

picking nits wrote:

I'm never offended.

However, many other people are offended by your condescending garbage, including the people who maintain this message board...

Why don't you simply take your "talents" somewhere else, where people will actually appreciate the so-called help?

So you were asking around, "what's a really good forum for an oversensitive gal like me," and the consensus was this site?

Hate to break it to you but they were putting you on!

I've been posting on LetsWrite.com for years and have never had anyone tell me how to run. I expect the same courtesy here.

princess and the pea wrote:

(nothing of any importance)

Nice attitude. Tell me, does your principle also apply to Wejo himself?

grammatarian. wrote:

NOPE! He should of stopped reading mine a long time ago cuz I'm perfect.

"because"

rippy cripple wrote: I've been posting on LetsWrite.com for years and have never had anyone tell me how to run.

Yeah, let's see how long that lasts once you start expressing your ideas there in the form of interpretive runs!

Sense of humor or reasonably thick skin, take your pick. Either will suffice just fine here.

It ain't my message board; they ain't my rules. But I'd be disgusted if those rules forbid someone with a little style and wit from humorously pointing out an anonymous poster's spelling gaffe, but gave pimple-faced high school sociopaths free rein to say downright disgraceful things to some of the best runners ever to lace up a pair of spikes.

I just went to check that Letswrite.com is for real.

Not only does it exist, but they have an ultra-annoying poster called "I Hate Pepys". It's just too spooky

Well done sir.

Twilight Zone wrote:

I just went to check that Letswrite.com is for real.

Not only does it exist, but they have an ultra-annoying poster called "I Hate Pepys". It's just too spooky

Hey I'm from Letswrite.com - just leave us alone Ok !

Steve Prefountain

editors of letswrite.com wrote:

I'd be disgusted if those rules forbid someone with a little style and wit from humorously pointing out an anonymous poster's spelling gaffe...

Did you even read the thread that I hyperlinked above? Based upon your dismissive attitude, I think that the safe answer is "no."

I'm sorry, but as Wejo himself pointed out people like "Spelling and grammer" & "Picking Nits" jump into the middle of a thread and contribute absolute nothing to the topic of conversation! Please explain to me how in the world they are performing this "service" in a humorous manner. There isn't anything about the process that's funny. They don't write any puns...they simply write the minimum amount of words necessary to interject their correction. It's childish and condescending.

This is a running message board that hosts casual conversations. When I do want to write something formal, I will, but this is neither the time nor the place to do so. Part of their rationale within the original thread was that you should always be cognizant of proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation. What a bunch of garbage. Does that mean that "Picking Nits" is also standing inside the doorway of your local Denny's, requiring that all the gentlemen wear a coat & tie?

Why are you apologizing for illiterates? Some people want to encourage higher standards of performance in running, others prefer to encourage higher standards in writing. Writing well is a hell of a lot easier than running well. In the written medium, clarity of expression is important ("casual conversation" or not). If someone came up to you on the street and started ranting on (equivalently) about "run hard, me good do, teach please me, good these shoes" and so on, you'd dismiss him as an ignorant kook because he couldn't even accomplish the simple task of coherently expressing himself and expected you to do the work of making sense of what he wanted to convey. Making the listener (or reader) work harder than is necessary to comprehend what is being expressed is lazy and arrogant, two traits that I would never defend in anyone.

There isn't one compelling counter-point in your entire post. If anything, you are guilty of exaggerating this alleged problem.The vast majority of people that find themselves on the receiving end of a correction are far from illiterate. If you are struggling to comprehend their message, you probably have some vocabulary issues of your own. In almost every intervention, the people that "Spelling and grammer" chooses to target are guilty of misusing one word, or perhaps even a simple typo.

Grow Up. wrote:

In the written medium, clarity of expression is important ("casual conversation" or not).

It sounds like you are the one who needs a much more mature perspective. Why are you defending childish jerks? My little Denny's analogy is still applicable.

Get a life! wrote:

In almost every intervention, the people that "Spelling and grammer" chooses to target are guilty of misusing one word, or perhaps even a simple typo.

That is absolutely wrong.

I have never seen "Spelling and grammer" correct an obvious "typo" or a situation where two letters are transposed. He tends to pick out obvious misspellings and grammar errors. He does not point out errors that are very esoteric and the like.

Nice job. I couldn't have said (writ?) it better myself. Well, okay, maybe I COULD have, but this is a message board, and...

Actually, I'm all for encouraging higher standards on this board--across the board (as it were). Others, are apparently all for dumbing it down. True, this board does get its fair share of non-native English speakers (e.g., the430miler), but the vast majority are native speakers, and really owe it to the board to write better than* Sir 430 (bless his heart). Not only does it show that you're serious about your inquiry or response, it's what your mom would want. There: I've managed to work "your mom" into this post. Now, if I could just berate a running great WHILE missing the entire point of the thread, I'd hit the LetsRun trifecta. Alas, I'm really not into standards, though; it's a message board for Pre's sake.

*Notice the use of "than" vs. "then".

To think that you guys get this service for FREE! Bunch of ungrateful...

Jed Babbin wrote:

That is absolutely wrong. I have never seen "Spelling and grammer" correct an obvious "typo" or a situation where two letters are transposed. He tends to pick out obvious misspellings and grammar errors. He does not point out errors that are very esoteric and the like.

I sincerely hope that you are kidding. You are either new to the LetsRun community, or you definitely need to improve your reading comprehension level.

In the end, "Spelling and grammer" is nothing more than an articulate troll.