#11

All the time, how else will people know that I know more than them

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#12

You want me to correct your grammar or spelling, you gotta pay me.

#13

*You’ve got to

#14

I will ignore your invoice, and you’ll have to take me to court to get that 5p.

#15

Not a fan of making people feel bad

#16

Usually let stuff slide but I’ll go to town on a badly-drafted document if it’s for work purposes. I am a translator though

#17

In fairness they’ve almost certainly jumped a shark in an episode of Baywatch. It probably happens every episode.

In answer to your question never, if anything I perpetuate misinformation and ambiguity because life is pain.

#18

Had an awkward moment at work recently where my coworker, who is lovely but a bit fragile and has low self confidence partly due to her being bad at spelling, made some price stickers to go on books. One of these books was about spelling and grammar and she’d misspelt ‘grammar’ on the stickers for it. I didn’t want to make her feel bad but also thought the subject matter warranted correct spelling, so when I thought she’d gone for tea, I made some new ones with the right spelling so there was no bad feeling. Obviously she hadn’t gone for tea and came over to ask if she’d done the stickers wrong when she saw me making new ones. Felt terrible about it :frowning:

#19

*misspelled

#20

*misspelt

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#21

*imapelt

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#22

I teach Communication on a number of business and engineering courses and I am convinced that all of the mistakes I correct are irrelevant.

There’ll be a time in the next twenty years or so that we won’t use punctuation at all and all spelling will be correct if it sounds OK. Nobody will care about ambiguities because nobody will read anything in any depth anyway.

#23

never

but i always let everyone know that i’m not even on facebook

#24

do you work in pickie pool?

#25

You have to correct the small mistakes, as what if they bring up shark jumping and Baywatch again, or then explain to someone else in your presence? It will be worse correcting them at a later time, they’ll feel a right mug.

#26

nah, there’s pedalo swans in Newcastle, open over summer. its a pain in the dick and the water is contaminated as fuck.

#27

“Can I get a-”

  • “MAY I have a…”
#28

Misread this as paedo swans at first, heh. Never trusted 'em.

#30

The swan that was on our lake fucked off after march, so the kids were safe from its feathery embrace. The geese were cunts though, wouldn’t be surprised if they were peados.

#31

are pickie pool your biggest competitors then?