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[โ€“] mattw3496@kbin.social 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] Ashtear@lemm.ee 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Willy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

no. it's a disagree button!

[โ€“] Vilian@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] USSEthernet@startrek.website -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

~~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?

[โ€“] Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

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