Writer's Block: Just Say No!

[vvvexation]

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

Comments

[akienm.livejournal.com]

Bravo. :) For me it was coaching unasked.

[hot-turkey.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I'd say that's a *bad* habit, necessarily, unless of course it's overdone. I cringe, many times each day, at other people's grammar.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

I cringe too, but embarrassing people is not the best way to win friends, it turns out.

[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.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. So do you think directly correcting people is always dickish?