"nimue" wrote in message
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Lindabird wrote:

I saved this from a Usenet Newbie FAQ somewhere long ago. I'm a
grammar/spelling freak, too, but I thought it was good advice for me
to just "get off (of) my high horse" and not do the English teacher
thing. :0)

"Don't send a reply just to point out spelling or grammar mistakes.
That's pretty poor behavior. Since we aren't in kindergarten
anymore, and you probably aren't too stupid to guess what the author
meant, you can certainly overlook these errors."

I do, most of the time. However, I AM an English teacher who was raised
by
an English teacher, and I find it very difficult NOT to correct people's
grammar...


I also appreciate a polite correction - always! I think we're probably in
the minority, though. Useless piece of trivia: I was really torn between
English ed. and music ed. as my college major - I went with music, which is
really my first love, but I think I would have been happy teaching English.

It's an everyday occurrence in my rehearsals to correct my students' grammar
mistakes. I jokingly threaten them with detention if I hear "I ain't got
no" or "I didn't do nothin'" one more time. Heh.

Bird, who thinks spelling/usage should be a stand-alone compulsory class,
6-12