• Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
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    27 days ago

    If you don’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re”, you’re probably getting fired at some point anyway

    It’s not difficult and you could learn it in the space of a short walk

    It’d impress your boss

    • li10@feddit.uk
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      27 days ago

      It’s annoying when people get pedantic about spelling on the internet, but at least you weren’t a massive, insufferable arsehole about it.

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        26 days ago

        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

        • Hjalmar@feddit.nu
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          26 days ago

          Please remember that everyone here isn’t a native English speaker and neither does everyone use English in professional writing.