You’re grammer is incorrect.
According to the my highly unaccredited source (myself), there are only 4 reasons to correct someone’s grammar and/or spelling:
- It is your job/responsibility to do so — and no, “It is my responsibility to society/the English language/mankind” doesn’t count.
- You are genuinely concerned about the person and what may happen should others see the error, or should they make the same mistake in important situations (e.g. official business).
- You want to clarify for yourself or others because the meaning could change due to the error.
- You were asked to do so.
Otherwise, I think it’s rude especially if done publicly. Now I won’t lie, sometimes the mistakes are really funny or even ridiculous (I’m a Journalism major after all), but I just don’t think it should be a big deal if you understand what they meant anyway.
But that’s just me. Come on, I know English but my math isn’t good, for all I know that apostrophe-loving person can multiply 10x faster and more accurately than me in his sleep. Huh.
Abby is 23 years old, currently living with her folks and her dog in Metro East. She does marketing, coordination and community management for an IP-based massively multiplayer online game. She is a Christian. She is a loving daughter, sister, friend, an artist and a writer, a dork, a crazy person, contradiction, and so on and so on. This blog is where she drowns out all the noise. 
February 11th, 2010 at 15:30
Can I add a fifth reason? When the person you are correcting is incredibly annoying/infuriating and you want to annihilate/humiliate/both that person, and then watch him make more mistakes trying to defend himself.
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