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Correcting grammar on Twitter is honestly just obnoxious

June 9, 2018

At some point in social media history, Twitter’s grammar police officially crossed into grammar Nazi territory. 

I’m not sure when it became socially acceptable to tell strangers that they used the incorrect version of “your.” I don’t know when we started caring so much about proper capitalization and dangling participles. I find it profoundly disturbing that people now look to Merriam-Webster as a moral authority.

Back in my day, we mocked people who cared about grammar. I was roundly criticized every time I corrected a classmate for improperly using a colon in her science poster project. Group leaders would seethe when I corrected their spelling of “balloon” or expounded on the differences between “who” and “whom.” Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Correcting grammar on Twitter is honestly just obnoxious

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