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[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You start correcting people when they say "your" instead of "you're" :-)

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Quite the opposite.

The older you get the less clever it feels to point out the common mistakes of others

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Agreed. Matter of fact, I usually direct the offending party to one of two, if not both, sites.

https://www.sciencealert.com/people-who-pick-up-grammar-mistakes-jerks-scientists-find

https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/76120

Always a good time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's replaced with a desire to help people be better.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I agree actually, I was only kidding because of the subject of the post.