I despise grammar pedantry. If your response to one of my Tweets is nothing more than a flame over a spelling/autocorrect/predictive typing or grammar error, there is a non-zero chance I will block you. The magnitude of that chance depends on how much you annoy me otherwise.
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Replying to @gorskon
I don't get it. I posted an ironic reply with a dumb 'mis-correction' of 'they're'. Then I wrote: Now let's see.. should there be a comma before that terminal adverbial 'otherwise' modifier clause?
Kids, just say no to arbitrary prescriptive grammar/syntax rules!1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Twitter is kind of silly and for fun. There is no room for
#sarcasm /s tags, so I guess some of you took me seriously? For this I'm blocked? I'm a huge fan of John Mcwhorter (sic) who writes books about how thoughtless 'grammar' correction is largely nonsense - why I replied.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @ijmacros
This is enough of a pet peeve of mine that the jokes were not appreciated. I don’t care if my Twitter followers understand or not. I don’t care if they like it or not. This has been 15 years building.
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Also, if you were blocked, you wouldn’t even bee able to see my Tweets or respond to me. I just used Twitter’s new Hide Reply function. The replies are still there, it just takes an extra click to see them.
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