I still see blue checks in Twitter that need to reply with “*you’re” kinda bullshit. I do reread some of my posts and I see them littered with mobile edits or just bullshit language that only made sense to my brain at 2am. Thanks everybody for being chill about language. I still (wrongly) imagine that I’m very good with writing, and seeing my own writing some time after it’s been published is a nice kick of humility.
A couple accounts ago on
, I was arguing with a lib and called their beliefs “inane”.They proceeded to correct me with “*insane, and they’re not”.
This is an American with English as their first and only language, I’m Chinese and English is my second language. Libs with vibes based politics absolutely get psychic healing from feeling “correct” even when they’re objectively incorrect. They need to get one over whomever they’re arguing with so they can feel superior. This leads to debate bro brain worms.
There’s a great pair of scenes in Django Unchained that summarize those types of redditors. In the first scene the slaver Calvin Candie bullies and ridicules one of his slaves for not knowing the word “reimburse.” Because he’s a cruel dickhead.
Later on when Dr. Schultz (who admits English is not his first language!) drops the word “panache” in conversation Candie can’t define it, making Candie look like a bozo.
Smug reddit types are the bad guys in a Tarantino movie.
It’s even funnier because Candie likes to boast that he’s a huge francophile, but when asked about a French word he’s caught up in his lies. Same with reddit guys who love to feel smarter than everyone else but fail to show basic intelligence.
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On another forum years ago with a news and debate subforum, I was arguing with chuds about I forget what. I do remember, though, using the term “proto-feminism” when describing Mary Wollstonecraft and arguments she was making before the First Wave Suffragettes. Some chud started arguing about Mary Shelly and Frankenstein weren’t “pro-feminist”. Not only getting the wrong Mary, but he also confused himself with an argument nobody made and went on some tirade about it.
I came back a few hours after I posted and said “Your rage essay is tl;dr and you worked yourself up over something because you have poor reading comprehension.” I think he even had Wikipedia links, which was even more funny because they were to the wrong things.
Me desperately combing this post for a grammatical error so that I can call it out…
Thats not funny!
*That’s
(yeah even ironically this is a jerk move)
look how kind you are being to Flyberius, putting an error in there on purpose
I love “writing properly”, because when I see a word properly spelled, or good grammar, my brain thinks it’s pretty, so I really like spelling and grammar and so on.
But I know that linguistic prescriptivism is bullshit, and the first cop you have to kill before the revolution is the cop in your own head. So fuck that reddit ass “u misspelled your argument is invalid” bs.
Generally I only comment in a “bone apple tea” situation
Despite all my posts being strung together with as much care and expertise as a Boeing max
GRAMMAR IS A TOOL OF OPPRESSION USED BY THE BOURGEOISIE TO PACIFY THE PROLETARIAT INTO A STATE OF DORMANCY AND COMPLIANCE!
RISE, COMRADES! RISE AND SHITPOST TO YOUR HEART’S CONTENT SO THAT OUR REVOLUTION WILL TEAR DEEP INTO THE VERY FABRIC OF OUR COMMUNITY!
I had some obnoxious, higher-ranked, reddit-energy colleague who’s a fascist sympathizer correct me pronouncing “anticlimactic” by saying it’s “anticlimatic”. I didn’t say anything but it felt good that others saw her fall on her face with that one, totally her own arrogance.
Humility goes a long way.
Irl, I say “croy-sant” for croissant just to deal incidental psychic damage to any French person that overhear it (I believe the kids call this “Praxis”, you’re welcome). This is in a commercial kitchen staffed with people who have English as their second or third language, it really doesn’t bother anyone I work with very much.
However, every now and then I use the word in public or with strangers is and get corrected because it’s actually craw-son. Then I can one up them by saying “actually, it’s kwa-sahn you connard”.
I know how to pronounce French words correctly, I simply choose not to.
This is pretty much the case for every foreign word in English
Gabagoul
Which is like every word in English. “Knight” is Germanic and they used to pronounce the K. We stopped saying the K a long ass time ago after the Battle of Hastings. But then we’ll turn around and say words with French origin using Germanic pronunciation.
Really, really wish English could be trimmed down and fixed. Language doesn’t work that way unfortunately. Our spelling could really use an overhaul or an entirely different alphabet.
English could use a code refactor. Lotsa technical debt bogging us down
based and du Bois pilled
There’s probably been Frankish dialects in history that would pronounce that word /kroj sant/.
yeah ngl i love this site for communist reasons but also dyslexia reasons. between the nonjudgement/assumptions of good faith and the million emotes, communicating here is so much less scary than everywhere else online
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- well actually
I have typed so many statements with missing information that when reread didn’t quite make sense and have never been called out
Lol I usually get like a dozen up votes anyway, even if one of the key words in the post autocorrected to something completely unrelated
People are better than I would have assumed at figuring out what I meant when I’ve deleted 3/4ths of a word
The only memory I have of being corrected on grammar was when Emizeko corrected the title of my first Soviet gulag post because i spelt the title with “penial” instead of saying “Penal”
*Beanal
Ftfy
I’ve worked with a north African person for the past few months, and they switch ‘b’ for ‘p’ all the time. It never stops throwing me off for a second.
Penial Implant
sorry if that was annoying at the time, I shoulda worked at a better joke
No, it was memorable because it was like one of my first bigger posts and I made such a basic mistake and was a bit embarrassed.
That bit embarrassed got a bit bigger when I learned some people I respect found that post and were applauding its discovery.
i am a strong believer that if intent and meaning is able to be interpreted from what you write, then structure and delivery or grammar isn’t as important. I know a lot of grammer/english nerds will scoff at this but I don’t give a shit. My favorite shit is those crazy ramblings or scribbled ideas that are only marginally connected to each other. Like the kind of unstructured ideas jotted down in a notebook with little to no structure. Love that shit.
I love writing and I get great joy from well written work, and if I find typos or errors in a book I’m very put off by them.
This, on the other hand, is a shitposting website. Anyone who shows linguistic pretentiousness while being one click away from fucking PPB is a nerd and should be bullied. Also not everyone’s first language is English and not everyone has had the opportunity to study it to the same level.
First rule of knowing something: it doesn’t make you better than people who don’t!
Also language is flexible and constantly evolving. If the listener understands the speaker, the language was correct.
(anyone watch Simon Roper’s videos on YouTube? Dude studies linguistics of English from all periods of history, but he’s so chill about it)
oh yeah no same, I’m constantly proofing my own posts, either for flow or just general grammar mishaps. I’ve got it in my head–semi-fallaciously–that I have above-average English grammar for my demographic (that being undergrad first-language American) but I’m always brought back down to earth when I, once again, type seperate instead of separate, or something along those lines
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actually one of my most consistent spelling Ls. like, okay–it’s pronounced sehp-reht as an adjective and seh-puh-reit as a verb (at least in either americana or just where I live regionally), the only indicator for the second vowel verbally is either not there at all or reduced to schwa, so my brain goes “Okay, what’s the closest sound and spelled word to it that I can reference…sever?” and then it’s an a, because fuck you for assuming anything about english through context i guess
Pedantic correction of spelling and grammar?
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