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People who constantly point out grammar mistakes are pretty much jerks, scientists find
sciencealert.com ^ | March 31, 2016 | FIONA MACDONALD

Posted on 04/06/2016 1:20:07 PM PDT by Morgana

Scientists have found that people who constantly get bothered by grammatical errors online have "less agreeable" personalities than those who just let them slide.

And those friends who are super-sensitive to typos on your Facebook page? Psychological testing reveals they're generally less open, and are also more likely to be judging you for your mistakes than everyone else. In other words, they're exactly who you thought they were. That sounds pretty obvious, but this is actually the first time researchers have been able to show that a person's personality traits can actually determine how they respond to typos and grammatical errors, and it could teach us a lot about how people communicate (or miscommunicate) online.

"This is the first study to show that the personality traits of listeners/readers have an effect on the interpretation of language," said lead researcher Julie Boland from the University of Michigan. "In this experiment, we examined the social judgments that readers made about the writers."

The researchers took 83 participants and asked them all to read email responses to an ad for a housemate, which either contained no errors or had been altered to include typos (e.g. "teh" instead of "the") or grammatical mix-ups, such as too/to or it's/its.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: facebook; grammarpolice; ridiculous
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To: Morgana

Pubick??

:D


121 posted on 04/06/2016 2:13:21 PM PDT by Salamander (I Ride By Night..And I Travel In Fear, That In This Darkness, I Will Disappear....)
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To: Morgana

Same as all the know it all “Nit Pickers “
on hobby sites


122 posted on 04/06/2016 2:14:08 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: Albion Wilde

Why does everyone keep saying that?


123 posted on 04/06/2016 2:14:39 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("The world is full of wonder, but you see it only if you look." ~NicknamedBob)
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To: Albion Wilde
Oh no! I caught a grammar Nazi!


124 posted on 04/06/2016 2:15:37 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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To: Billthedrill

125 posted on 04/06/2016 2:15:55 PM PDT by Salamander (I Ride By Night..And I Travel In Fear, That In This Darkness, I Will Disappear....)
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To: forgotten man
forgotten man said: 14) “If I was” instead of “If I were”

I was taught to say:
"If I was on fire, I would burn, but if I were you I would just ignore it."

The distinction is that being on fire is possible. My being you is not possible. Several years ago I tried to verify this usage but ended up just confused. What is your rule?

126 posted on 04/06/2016 2:18:57 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: Buttons12

You mean Pennsylvania the state of yinz?


127 posted on 04/06/2016 2:19:54 PM PDT by Not gonna take it anymore (If Obama were twice as smart as he is, he would be a witp)
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To: Buttons12

I live in W.MD so it’s properly “It needs a’fixin’”.

:)


128 posted on 04/06/2016 2:20:35 PM PDT by Salamander (I Ride By Night..And I Travel In Fear, That In This Darkness, I Will Disappear....)
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To: DungeonMaster

In addition to that there’s not only ... as well.


129 posted on 04/06/2016 2:21:06 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: humblegunner

My buddy, My buddy.....


130 posted on 04/06/2016 2:21:08 PM PDT by chasio649 (Southerner, low info and inbred...miss anything?)
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To: Morgana

I’ve found there mostly, jerks, alot and quit often


131 posted on 04/06/2016 2:21:52 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: William Tell

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/subjunctive-verbs


132 posted on 04/06/2016 2:22:33 PM PDT by Fundamentally Fair (Wondering...)
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To: Morgana

William Safire wrote a great column called “On Language”. I loved it. I also loved the fact that he called Hillary Clinton a congenital liar in 1996. If only the world had listened.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/08/opinion/essay-blizzard-of-lies.html


133 posted on 04/06/2016 2:23:08 PM PDT by freefdny
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To: William Tell

I would say “If I were on fire...” because I am not on fire and have no intention of setting myself of fire. If I am on fire please throw water on me. I need to look that one up in my grammar book.


134 posted on 04/06/2016 2:32:45 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: Lazamataz

#9 That pretty much sucks


135 posted on 04/06/2016 2:35:01 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: Morgana

136 posted on 04/06/2016 2:36:08 PM PDT by JPX2011
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To: Morgana
“Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.”

― Mark Twain

137 posted on 04/06/2016 2:40:17 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
My latest pet peeve with local newscasters especially is the mispronunciation of words with 'ing' added, ie. battleing instead of battling.
138 posted on 04/06/2016 2:40:40 PM PDT by pa_dweller (Go ahead Libs, drink the kool-aid. It's got electrolytes!)
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To: Morgana

“grammer” was mistspeled. It is “gramerr”


139 posted on 04/06/2016 2:40:50 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: al baby

You truly are a cunning linguist!


140 posted on 04/06/2016 2:47:24 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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