# Do you correct people a lot? What's your motivation?

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**Created:** [November 4, 2024, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-correct-people-a-lot-whats-your-motivation/1009660 "2024-11-04T10:47:41Z")\
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Yep. That accounts for quite a wedge of the corrections I see - people enforcing an imaginary rule.

Two in particular from the past week:

“it’s only shepherd’s pie if its lamb, otherwise it’s _cottage_ pie” - simply untrue. The earliest shepherds pie recipes used any meat that was available, and besides, shepherds are not _people who eat sheep_.

“You must not start a sentence with a conjunction!”  
And why not, exactly? Or is there actually a rule?

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