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The ability to be spontaneous in life is directly proportion to the size of your bank account
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True, but is it pedantic? The same people that complain they can't find a job are the ones that make huge grammar mistakes in their applications or résumés.
I wouldn't hire someone who was too lazy to proofread over someone who wasn't; would you? And then why should that rule not apply to your fellows on the internet?
Sometimes if you don't point out people's mistakes, you're actually hurting their future selves
I think everyone nowadays is a bit too accepting of other people's faults to try to seem a bit more morally superior themselves, without realising that they're actually being abusive in the long term
Anyway, I'm not actually serious here, I just wondered who would actually read this far
I've found it's more effective to be a little funny instead of being an enormous cunt.
Nah, you're just coming off as a giant asshole. Correcting your vs you're on the internet is pedantic as fuck. Could have easily been an autocorrect or typo on their phone.
Please remember that everyone here isn't a native English speaker and neither does everyone use English in professional writing.
Only native speakers make the your you're there their they're mistakes.
What makes you think that?
I believe they were being sarcastic.
Because they're just writing as they speak, whereas someone who learned English later in life should have a greater understanding that these are different words. I believe I've read about it before.
Here's a quick and dirty link to a discussion on the same topic.
Okay, guess that's one explanatio n. It just doesn't fit with what I see (as someone whose studied English for ~6 years). People in my class still confuse "you're" and "your" quite frequently.
Since "would you?" is incomplete, a comma would be correct here rather than a semicolon.