# What were you THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2996
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2996 "2024-06-20T21:09:12Z")
217 posts that drifted pretty far from the topic of this thread have been moved to their own thread: > [@For bitching about language pedantry, other posters' language, and language in general](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-bitching-about-language-pedantry-other-posters-language-and-language-in-general/1003135): > > @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. Shrank. I might not have bothered if you hadn’t written “shrunk” twice. Your initial thought to not bother… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532)._