@kaylasdad99, I like your contributions in general. But please, cut the annoying pedantic corrections of people’s spelling and grammar. Is there a risk of misunderstanding? Is it something that posters will be genuinely thankful to learn? If no, then keep it to yourself.
No one is reading posts like the below and thinking, wow, this conversation is really improved by that correction.
The comma in this sentence, while it does add an exasperated whiny tone to the lecture that I’m sure was intentional, would be generally regarded as redundant and the finger-wagging would be at least as annoying without it.
Secondly, that crap is nails on a chalkboard for me, and I’m genuinely trying to put a stop to it. I do realize that it’s like telling the rain to stop, but I can’t help it.
I was hoping you had misspelled something so I could and pretend to be pedantic about it but really be joking, ad lib queen and all
But no. Your words are perfect.
The last sentence is hiding behind the passive voice. Its meaning becomes clearer when stated in the active voice, thus: “I approve of the former and encourage it; I find the latter annoying”.
Which then, of course, invites the obvious retort that, respectfully, no one cares what you prefer.
By that logic, shouldn’t you have more clearly stated, in the active voice… “I, wolfpup, am a pedant who picks apart perfectly viable constructions of the English language for no better reason than to see myself type”?
Yahoo! didn’t tell me when I first registered it with them (so I could play Hearts), and in fact, wouldn’t allow those shenanigans. Although they probably would have allowed capitalization, so that’s my bad.
And ftr,* NOT everything is nails on chalkboard for me.