This troper's least favourite teacher used to give social studies tests with abysmal spelling and grammar. She only got %70 in the course, but damn it if every test was not handed back to him perfectly corrected. She once considered grading his efforts, but didn't quite have the nerve.

I quite enjoy an inversion of this where I ask if someone getting mad at me for a post is mad because I made a spelling mistake.

A friend of mine once wrote a story where one character described another as "stooped", only to have the other character burst into the room and yell, "It's spelled S-T-U-P-I-D!". The first character replies, "Not 'stupid' as in idiot, 'stooped' as in 'hunched over'."

This troper has made of this a rather unconscious habit when reading. She will fold the corner of the page where she finds a grammar, typographical or spelling mistake. When she finishes the book, she'll count the number of mistakes and write it on a piece of paper she'll stick to the inside of the covers.

This troper sends letters to the publishers telling them to fix those mistakes.

This troper's sister had an english teacher she hated. She handed in an assignment to her, and got it back with many notes telling her how horrible it was. She sent it back to the teacher, with the teacher's notes corrected. She got 100 that year in English, and didn't attend any more lessons.

I'mma suggest cross-posting this to Crowning Moment of Awesome.

I did this once for fun. A person wrote to my then-girlfriend how I was, in essence, a waste of human life. I e-mailed him with the copy of his message and pointed out every last mistake, including me saying he spelled his own name wrong. His reaction was incredibly funny.

This troper once was part of an odd variant - a professional article her 10th-grade English class had been assigned to write about contained some kind of error along the lines of RougeAnglesOfSatin (I think it may have been its/it's), so she marked it with "[sic]". To her, this didn't seem like a situation where it would have been unexpected; one uses good English in English class. But her teacher, while discussing the essays before handing them back, said something along the lines of, "You all did a good job using quotes... Which one of you used ''sic''?" The latter part was said in tones of pleased surprise. Apparently it's not usual for fifteen-year-olds to correct professional literary critics? Who knew?

This troper's friend once got an editing job with a certain unnamed gaming company after sending back a copy of one of their books with all the spelling and grammar mistakes marked.

This troper once corrected her English teacher's use of then/than on a paper. Admittedly, the teacher had been out of it that night, but for a sixty-year-old who's been doing this for most of her life, it must be either kind of humiliating or very pride-inducing to have your grammar corrected by a twelve-year-old.

Probably both. Wait, we don't have a trope for the Student Surpassing The Master?

On a forum this troper frequents, he will correct any spelling mistake anybody else makes, regardless of the situation.

When this troper was in Year Four (3rd Grade to you Americans) he would correct his classmates' spelling and punctuation mistakes when they left their computers unattended.

This troper received an ''engagement announcement'' that contained the phrases "All To Soon" and "Your Invited". To make matters worse, the groom-to-be is an English teacher.

This troper describes herself as "a word person", and her obsessive-compulsive tendencies seem to have exacerbated her longing to correct any error she sees. This did not endear her to most of her high school teachers, who did not appreciate being corrected, and it was not until college that this troper learned to restrain herself. The break room at her current workplace has several error-riddled notes describing the exact rules for using the coffee machine. This troper has decided that, on her last day at this job, she will sneak into the break room at some point and edit these notes to her heart's content.

One time in a high school class, a fellow student saw a girl accidentally drop a love note in the hallway. Instead of returning it to her, he brought it into the class and caused a class-wide joke over the writer's poor spelling and capitalization (she wrote "amaZing," I swear), some students even making marks on the letter where there were mistakes such as your/you're. It ended up being snagged by one student and being turned in for extra credit to an English teacher as an example of "Grammar Cops".

@/0dd1: I sometimes have fun on {{Facebook}} scrolling through my friends' statuses and conversations and correcting particularly {{egregious}} spelling screw-ups.

Please forgive me, but do you still have any?

Yes, yes I do :-) (Though they don't particularly mind, mostly because they don't particularly care. More often, I make snarky comments on their statuses and activity, and that usually gets a reaction of "lol"...of course, that could just mean "Loud Obnoxious Loser."

Apparently, early on in their relationship, my Dad corrected my Mum's love letters to him and returned them.

There is ''nothing'' more satisfying for a booksmart schoolkid than correcting the English teacher's spelling and grammar. The way their faces tweak... sorry. This troper took malevolent glee in it as a child. Perhaps why he had so few friends his own age. Also, subverted hilariously by an RE teacher attempted to say his spelling was poor because he had allegedly spelled 'Pharaoh' wrong (literally, the only example said teacher had). It turned out the spelling was right. So essentially she made ''herself'' sic. Literary bulimia anyone?

that's "''as'' a child", thank you.

Fixed.

One of this Troper's pet peeves: '''Apostrophe Pluralization'''. It's just so annoying to see apostrophes where there shouldn't be, like pluralizing an acronym (lowercase "s" ''only''!), and other dumb stuff they tell you not to do since ''middle school''. Of course, before having fury, I try to make sure it wasn't actually a posessive, because for that, you do need one.

Apostrophe Pluralization is proper British English. If you're in the States, rage away, but here in Canada This Troper can get away with either one.

This troper is British and... a little bit upset that a Canadian should pronounce on what is "proper British English". No, apostrophe pluralisation is ''never'' correct, and neither is using apostrophe-S for the third person singular present tense of verbs. Yes, people commit those atrocities, here as well, but that doesn't make them correct; the proof of which is that ''well-educated'' people avoid them.

This troper's ex-French teacher was a ''massive'' stickler when it came to grammar. Ours, at least. I once received test riddled with grammatical errors (in the English bits) and once, curiously, using the completely incorrect conjugation of "Nous finis". I finished the test, and with 15 minutes left over, corrected every single one of her errors. I got 100% on that test.

This troper does it all the time, including to his brother, who is seven years his senior. This has been going on for many, many years. I'm 23 now, and I STILL correct him.

You mean you still correct him.

"Including to his seven year older brother" is a fragment. Also, "seven year older brother" should probably be "seven-years-older brother" or "brother who is seven years older."

I took the liberty of fixing it.

In second grade, if our teacher was writing on the board and ''ever'' made a spelling mistake, almost ''all the kids in the class'' would raise their hands to correct his error, including me.

This troper was doing a debate about the environment in class, and her opponent, at one point in a statement, said "Owing to the effects of PRECISION." As soon as this troper got up, her first retort was "The wobble of the Earth's axis is called PRECESSION."

This troper has a slight obsession with spelling/grammar. Her friends usually find it funny, except when it's their work she's correcting.

This troper makes a point not to ''correct'' people's English unless they're really annoying him ("correct" English doesn't exist, it doesn't tend to endear you to people, and LaserGuidedKarma will always maliciously insert a mistake in your correction), but does have an almost-as-irritating habit of Linguistic Lepidoptery - a sufficiently rare, interesting or grammatically ambiguous construction can send me into an oblivious trance in the middle of a conversation, like a butterfly collector gazing at a rare species that just fluttered by. Etymologies and cognates have a similar effect. Mmm, cognates...

... ... <''twit''ch-tw''itc''h>... Aaugh! ''It is incorrect to end sentences with prepositions.'' And, ''This is the sort of nonsense we will not tolerate!'' no matter whether Churchill said it differently. (Better now.)

But it isn't. That's just a superstition deriving from overly literal interpretation of the name "preposition".

This troper is normally one of those people who idly corrects BathroomStallGraffiti, but one day decided to mix it up a little by altering a correctly spelt message from 'MORON' to 'MORAN'. Sure enough, next time I check, there's a snarky 'Learn to spell!' message next to it. There's probably a psychology study in this somewhere.

I once typed in a forum thread, "does Daniel Craig make a good James Bone?" and never heard the end of it from the other posters in that thread.

This troper's friend is a fanatic GrammarNazi, and it really became a problem when he kept (mistakenly) correcting another player's use of singular "they" during a game of Catchphrase, blatantly interrupting them and messing up their turn.

A notice at my school ended with the disclaimer: "This supercedes all previous notices about this event" or something like this. I couldn't resist writing underneath: "...and also super'''s'''edes all previous known rules of English spelling".

My uncle, when he was in college in NewYorkCity in the '60s, came across some classic graffiti in a subway station: "God is dead. --Nietzsche/Nietzsche is dead. --God." "Nietzsche" was misspelled, so my uncle took the liberty of correcting the spelling...unfortunately, he was arrested for tagging. My grandfather--a writer, editor, and news producer--was, according to my father, more angry that ''my uncle had misspelled "Nietzsche" too''.

This troper has a bad habit of correcting every spelling mistake she sees. Unfortunately, her boyfriend isn't called "Typo King" for nothing...

This troper's best friend's younger brother once took one look at a school project of mine and told me this: "You did a double space there." I naturally reacted apropriately by saying "HOW THE HELL DID YOU NOTICE THAT." *waits for the grammar nazis to correct the many mistakes that are probably within this entry*

If you write to me or anyone else anywhere that "your a bad," I'll ask you three simple questions to attempt to save one from the "You're bad at grammar" police: (I do sometimes use that on those "your a bad" perpetrators if I feel desperate) #QUOTE# Where's the noun? #QUOTE# Why'd the first letter of the alphabet creep in? #QUOTE# Why'd you choose the wrong homophone?

"Who here has really needed to go the bathroom at school, only to have their teacher correct your question to whether you may go to the bathroom rather than can?" This troper, and during the time it took my Kindergarten teacher to correct me I did, in my pants, in front of the whole class.

I really find stupid mistakes like "to" instead of "too" or "your" instead of "you're" to be absolutely inexcusable, and I'll correct them. This was particularly bad on the WoW forums. I usually ignore mistakes, but I saw this one Enhancement shaman who had made around 4 threads and in every single post had complained about shamans "loosing" dps because they had to swap a glyph out. So I responded to his post, and then I said something to the effect of "By the way, L-O-S-E, not L-O-O-S-E. Seriously." He then accused me of derailing the thread (I had disagreed with his main point as well). I just said "Look, I responded your comment, and I added the correction as an afterthought. You're blowing this out of proportion". Then everyone else chimed and, complaining about me and accusing me of ruining the thread (which eventually did get derailed into oblivion). I was so furious that I didn't visit the forums for a few weeks. Apparently correcting a mistake that most people stop making in elementary school is a heinous crime, and trying to decrease the utter stupidity of the world makes me a jerk, apparently. /rage.

Also, I'd often get yelled at by my 3rd grade teacher for correcting him (I was always right). He said I shouldn't embarrass him in front of the class; I responded that he shouldn't be making mistakes that a 3rd grader could correct. He was not amused. Luckily, my 6th grade teacher was much cooler, and would award homework passes whenever students corrected his spelling. Encouraging kids to see and correct spelling mistakes is what all teachers should be doing.

This troper frequently gets annoyed when he spots incorrectly used apostraphes (I don't know whether I've spelt that right, please correct it if it is wrong), commas and text speak. Having said that, he does have enough of a sense of humour to point out hilarious errors: my favourite is when a book on the Shakespeare sonnets declared that the writer (a teacher of English at one of Britain's major universities) was a member of some English board...then did it again later in the same paragraph. When I noticed it, I couldn't help laughing.

Eye sea ewe maid A mispel.

See me after class, both of you.

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