• mattw3496@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Not here to fight you, but this line of thinking might be why people downvote you for being a language/grammar nazi.

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      9 months ago

      Correcting someone’s English also almost never adds anything to the conversation at hand, which is the literal purpose of the downvote.

      • Willy
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        9 months ago

        no. it’s a disagree button!

    • Vilian@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      i downvote because 99% af the time people already know how to write, they just don’t want to bother fixing that single error or just wanted to make a quick comment, also it is boring

      • 🖖USS-Ethernet@startrek.website
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        9 months ago

        i downvote because 99% af the time people already know how to write, they just don’t want to bother fixing that single error or just wanted to make a quick comment, also it is boring

        I* of*

        Can I has downvote please?

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          9 months ago

          i didn’t improve my english with your corrections, it was just annoying