I wasn’t born in ‘88. I was born in 1959, and as I’m aging, I occasionally mess up in the grammar area as I’m post menopausal and heading into the senior citizen phase of life. My grammar was exemplary when I was young. Now, not so much, so I hate to see other’s grammar pounced on. I went through a “grammar police” stage when I was younger, then realized it was just rude, was ashamed of myself, and quit correcting people. This is a forum, not an English class.
Agreed pops88, and I love good grammar; but polite courtesy exceeds it. To point out others’ errors, unless you are a loving parent or a well meaning sibling or a boss who needs some improvement or a teacher or some such is not called for.
I think the pension plan is 88% superiority complex and 12% self-satisfaction, with plenty of pride as a side benefit.
Are you “Series?!” LOL!
It's rude if it's done in public. But please, if a poster's feelings are hurt by being corrected in an anonymous forum ... well, then he or she needs to grow a thicker skin.
I don't correct anyone's grammar. But some grammatical errors are just too dumb to tolerate. The apostrophe abuse committed by writing the word "Kennedy's," for example, where a simple plural was indicated, is one such error.
The FReeper who posted the correction was performing a service. And the poster who was corrected accepted the correction gracefully. All is well.
I’ll be 65 soon, and the best thing I’ve learned is that you can make mistakes and blame it on old age. Works every time for me :-)