#correcting grammar

[uiruu]

spelling and punctuation aren’t grammar pass it on

seriously, correcting someone’s misuse or lack of punctuation, or incorrect spelling, is not correcting someone’s grammar. spelling and punctuation are conventions, not part of language. grammar refers to the way information is conveyed in a language. basically, it means all those rules of a language working together when speak it. case endings, plurality, classifier words, etc. 

so, spanish encodes information into a verb about when that verb happened in time, but also about who did the verb, such that you can leave off the subject of a sentence because that information is in the verb ending. english doesnt do that. well, we use -s for 3rd person singular, but that’s the only remnant of the system english used to have for that. that’s grammar. that’s the system we use to communicate information when we talk. we place prepositions before the noun, some languages place them after (thus, they are postpositions). that’s grammar. 

where you put your comma and how you spell “theiyr’e”? not grammar.

written language isnt actually relevant to linguistics. how a word is spelled does not actually matter linguistically. it can help convey the idea of how a word sounds but at least for the purposes of studying a language, only spoken language (or signed language) matters. 

written language is to linguistics what chemical formulas are to chemistry. chemistry will happen whether or not you write it down. language will happen whether or not you write it down. 

spelling and punctuation have nothing to do with grammar

[rabiesbites]

It's 2026 and we're in the middle of a literacy crisis can we please drop the bullshit societal standard that correcting people's grammar is rude

[1969chevycamaro]

I use a Samsung phone (The clearly superior choice), and Samsung phones use Grammarly for spelling and grammar corrections. I don't like this because I can't turn it off, and GRAMMARLY DOESN'T KNOW PROPER FUCKING GRAMMAR! Grammar varies from person to person so heres a few things that Grammarly is a fucking asshole about (Everything colored green is something Grammarly thinks needs correcting):

1: It doesn't like it when I capitalize the first letter in parenthesis

2: It's is clearly superior to Its and I'm tired of Grammarly being a bitch about it

3: If I put a comma or a period, It's because I meant a comma or a period and it doesn't neee to be changed

4: Sometimes, Words after a comma should be capitalized and

5: If I wrote something a certain way, It's because It's supposed to be that way

6: Grammarly is kinda rude with how it "corrects" me. It gives a snarky green underline that I can't make fuck off and if I tap it, it tries to "correct" the "mistake"

7: Grammarly not understanding that I'm still typing the sentence and that it isn't "grammatically incorrect"

There's probably more that I'm forgetting. I fucking hate Grammarly with every fiber of my being and I wish I could yeet it off my phone. I downloaded it on my school chromebook once, I removed that shit from my chromebook as soon as I figured out how to

[abhayhatia]

Leave out Manners: Why do they sneer about ‘grammar police’ once I’m looking to teach them?

Leave out Manners: Why do they sneer about ‘grammar police’ once I’m looking to teach them?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Why is it dangerous manners to proper anyone’s grammar? Being anyone who handled the English language of their career, we attempted, and taken our youngsters up, to a minimum of say, if no longer spell, phrases and words appropriately, and to make use of proper phrases. Sadly, them being in class and being uncovered to their friends’ (or even academics’!) mispronunciations, it…

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[theartisanalgrammarian-blog]

It Sucks to Incorrectly Correct Someone

Miss Manners and The Artisanal Grammarian agree: Unless asked, one should never correct someone else’s grammar. One runs a great risk of being not only impolite but also wrong.

Earlier this month, Alabama’s governor declared, “Our education system in this state sucks.”

A middle school English teacher took umbrage. “The word suck is a transitive verb, which means that it requires a direct object,” she told her governor in a letter. “I find your statement downright immature, but as an English teacher, I find it dreadfully ignorant.”

In fact, “suck” can be either transitive or intransitive. When intransitive, it does not require a direct object. On the grammatical point, at least, it was the teacher who was ignorant.

The Artisanal Grammarian respects teachers immensely. However, he has observed that English teachers tend to love rules, sometimes finding them where none actually exist. And the English language loves breaking rules.

As for the governor, in February of this year, he proposed taking $181 million from the state Education Trust Fund to balance the General Fund budget. At the time, he expressed no concern about the proposal's effect on educational suction. — Illustration from WPClipart

11/14/16

[arielfabulous]

Is there a polite way to correct someone's grammar?

So my girlfriend is from Sweden, and English is not her first language. Her English is very good, but she occasionally makes mistakes (sometimes in text messages, sometimes in speech). She has said that its okay for me to correct her, as she wants her English to get better, but are there nicer/better ways to do it?