• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        Here’s a litmus test to use when deciding to correct someone’s English online: did you understand what they meant?

        Yes? Leave them alone.

        No? Ask for clarification, then leave them alone.

        • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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          Not everyone gets offended when they are corrected. When someone corrects my Spanish I presume they are trying to help me rather than put me down.

        • TechLich@lemmy.world
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          A lot of non-native English speakers use online communication to practice and most want to be corrected so they can improve.

          A lot of native English speakers make mistakes accidentally, or speak with a dialect and some of them get really angry when people try to correct them.

          It’s sometimes tricky to know which is which. The best solution is for everyone to just be kind to each other but…

        • Linktank@lemmy.today
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          So you responding to my message to complain about the content, what’s the test for that? You just follow your gut? Or do you have some annoying advice you’d like to give me on when to best give annoying advice?

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        Well…maybe she made him a party favor? Tied him to the bed, and put a blinding hood on him, then injected liquid viagra into his veins every 4 hours, and invited the whole neighborhood over to pass him around. With him never even knowing who he had sex with, and who fucked him in the ass…

        See? She made him a favor!

        What? It’s already been established that the ex IS crazy. Loraina Bobbitt did far worse, and she wasn’t even crazy…kinda justified actually.