# Can Discourse stop trying to correct my grammar/usage? **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [October 17, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-discourse-stop-trying-to-correct-my-grammar-usage/923194 "2020-10-17T17:26:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-discourse-stop-trying-to-correct-my-grammar-usage/923194/1 "2020-10-17T17:26:09Z")
Several times now, I’ve gotten this message while trying to post: “Body seems unclear, is it a complete sentence?” The post has to be cancelled or altered (last time, I added an emoji and that gave me the go-ahead). Some threads in the Thread Games forum are listing games and don’t need a complete sentence–e.g., I posted **R U O K?** for a bogus band name and it would not be accepted. What gives? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-discourse-stop-trying-to-correct-my-grammar-usage/923194/2 "2020-10-17T17:35:58Z")
I don’t think that can be turned off, I just tried **R U O K?** by itself and got the message: _“Body seems unclear, is it a complete sentence?”_ with no options but OK. I’ll move this thread to Site Feedback. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-discourse-stop-trying-to-correct-my-grammar-usage/923194/3 "2020-10-17T17:46:29Z")
Thanks. In one of the light-hearted games, I skipped a few lines after the unacceptable posting and added (Stupid Discourse) and it worked. TPTB would undoubtedly not like a message board full of (Stupid Discourse). Or would you? 😄 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-discourse-stop-trying-to-correct-my-grammar-usage/923194/4 "2020-10-17T17:50:27Z")
I can readily state, it would be prefered for you to use some other filler, even “this is filler”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-discourse-stop-trying-to-correct-my-grammar-usage/923194/5 "2020-10-17T17:51:51Z")
That’s why you get the big bux! Excellent suggestion! Thanks again! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2020, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-discourse-stop-trying-to-correct-my-grammar-usage/923194/6 "2020-10-17T17:59:06Z")
But the OK doesn’t allow you to approve it, notwithstanding Discouse. If you click OK, Discourse takes you back to the edit box and expects you to “correct” it. If you don’t make any change, you get the same error message. Discourse will not allow variations from its assessment of whether something is a full sentence. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-discourse-stop-trying-to-correct-my-grammar-usage/923194/7 "2020-10-17T18:32:37Z")
Correct, that is why I moved the thread here. The Mod staff can’t fix it, Discourse developers would have to. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-discourse-stop-trying-to-correct-my-grammar-usage/923194/8 "2020-10-17T20:16:32Z")
Yep, I tried to post a 4-word, 14-character, subject-verb-object, complete sentence today, and discourse wouldn’t allow it. ---
**Author:** ![wreidhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e99b99/32.png) [@wreidhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wreidhead)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-discourse-stop-trying-to-correct-my-grammar-usage/923194/9 "2020-10-19T02:27:25Z")
I think ´yourself’ is actually one word 😄 ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/codinghorror/32/4242_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-discourse-stop-trying-to-correct-my-grammar-usage/923194/10 "2020-10-24T02:08:50Z")
Hint: all caps posts are generally viewed as not a great thing if that helps us assess this mystery. 👻 😉 ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-discourse-stop-trying-to-correct-my-grammar-usage/923194/11 "2020-10-24T02:14:33Z")
> [@codinghorror](#): > > Hint: all caps posts are generally viewed as not a great thing if that helps us assess this mystery. 👻 😉   There are rare times when a short all-caps post is what’s needed. ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/codinghorror/32/4242_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-discourse-stop-trying-to-correct-my-grammar-usage/923194/12 "2020-10-24T02:50:35Z")
NOPE  ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-discourse-stop-trying-to-correct-my-grammar-usage/923194/13 "2020-10-24T06:42:15Z")
> [@codinghorror](#): > > NOPE  iswydt ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-discourse-stop-trying-to-correct-my-grammar-usage/923194/14 "2020-10-28T07:34:48Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > But the OK doesn’t allow you to approve it, notwithstanding Discouse. If you click OK, Discourse takes you back to the edit box and expects you to “correct” it. If you don’t make any change, you get the same error message. The box needs a “mind your own business, Discourse” option.