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Correcting people's grammar in public. I mostly manage to only do it in private these days.

Date: 2012-02-28 05:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flwyd.livejournal.com
Asking for clarification, and using that as an opportunity to demonstrate a better grammatical choice: good habit.
Being a dick about your prescriptivist grammar: bad habit.

There's also the active learner case: I'm usually appreciative when someone corrects my grammar in a language I'm not fluent in.

Date: 2012-02-28 06:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com
Hmmm. So do you think directly correcting people is always dickish?

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