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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Why there are so many Grammar Nazis here on this site?
Because a large proportion of foreigners on this site are English teachers, which makes them more likely to criticise (or be criticised for) bad grammar.
Most of the criticism serves no purpose other than self-gratification.
royceH:
Yes, this is the correct answer.
Sometimes, however, the Nazis aren't only suffering from BCLD Syndrome, they also have a point. It can be a fine line...
People who have small penises have to rectify themselves some other way.
Samsara:
"People who have small penises have to rectify themselves some other way."
Yes, like giving thumbs down to perfectly good responses. I guess the thumbs down fairy has a small penis.
Samsara:
By the way, Scandinavian, you're coming up to your 5,555th post. Make it special.
icnif77:
Yes, why 'down' here? Can 'down voter' step forward, please?
Nice title and true. As said a big percentage of people on here are probably teachers.
They also slate teachers that don't have BA's -to which they have most likely not done Teaching as a major...but as they have done a BA makes them a fully fledged teacher...
As a forum we are allowed to be a little relaxed on are typing. -Thx god for the added spell check or i be f******
I'm moving out. I book direct Flight BA 671 'eChina' -----> Neot Hakkikar, Beersheba. I'll enrol in TEFL kibbutz
HATIKVAH......
icnif77:
It's 'Grammar', not 'German'……I'll stay few years longer, then.
As I am in the running for the worst grammar/ typer dude on this site, i appreciate the post. I wanna say it but because my english is so ass, itll just look like im complaining.
Seems like every day i got some dude saying I shouldnt be a teacher or I dont speak english hahah if they only knew.......
I also think some people are a little too quick on the draw and dont recognize typos.
On the other hand, some dudes be posting shit and I dont know what they hell they be saying.
Why native nons teaching cant jobs get? Huh? Is this a puzzle? Am I being timed?
icnif77:
I just realized, I was using word 'mice' and 'mouse' as 'the same meaning words' in 'Dream' tread. I wasn't aware, mice is pl. of mouse. Since I admitted, you should all read 'sleep' tread again. The "Jelly' affair" especially! LOL
royceH:
Or too pissed. Lots of expats in China drink too much. And sometimes they drink and type (Icni??).
Mike, I don't think you are a teacher.
mike695ca:
hahaha Royce, you are correct. Im a factory GM, but I am still an english teacher at heart.
When people tell me I shouldnt be a teacher cuz my english is shit, i just have to shut up.
I wanna be all well I am NOT a teacher fuck face. But I dont wanna look like a douche looking down on people and anyways, by doing that I would be admitting that I was a waste for the last 5 years I was a teacher. And i thought I was pretty damn good at it.
icnif77:
@ royce: meiyou 'drink'! I was born like that!'type & laugh' …... I'm looking forward to the new Mac keyboard, which can accommodate both verbs simultaneously. O2,O2...
philbravery:
so you thinks uss are worsta than me ha? on my best day i would fall short of your worst day but I like many others could not give a flying F##k what they say , as long as I get my point across
mike695ca:
hahah all i know is that I havent reached "untouchable" status like you yet, So i get called out for it all the time. Perhaps its cuz im more of a dick so people wanna shut me up. Fair enough. Or yours is so bad that you have managed to lower all standards. People are just happy they can decipher your codes.
A lot of my mistakes are due to finger laziness, 90% of the time I type and talk you guys with my LG G-Flex phone, I'm on3G 24/7... BTW, you guys must try The LG G-Flex, cool phone..
mike695ca:
I dont have your excuse...im usually on my computer.. and i have a note 1 ...specifically bought to accommodate my fat fingers...and i still screw it all up. I see like 20 red underlines from spell check... Fuck spell check, my voice must be heard now!
ironman510:
haha, very true, spell check ruined my memory, took me out of practice, along with Google voice type.. The hell with spelling.
Iron_Monkey:
Ok my inner nerd must ask if you got the Korean (F340) or international version (D958)?
Oh, and if place it on a table or desk and try to use it, does it spin/pivot/rock around so much that you give up and pick it up to continue using it?
ironman510:
Yeah this is a phone that's a little strange to use if placed on a table, it'll tilt up or rock if you try placing it on the table and using it that way. I bought mine in Hong Kong, HKD5999.00..
I am not an teacher, but I do often point out poor English when the question refers to employment as an English teacher.
Examples:
I is looking for job for english teacher.
why chinese dont take indian teacher in their schools as english teacher?
why is it so impotant to be native speakers to find a Teaching job??
If you can not write in literate English or be bothered to right click when there is a red line under a misspelled or incorrectly not capitalized word, how do you expect to be taken serious as a teacher or professional. Typos happen, however it is obvious some of these individuals have little grasp of the English language or why they "no can teach english"
mike695ca:
Completely agree. I just dont care. They sure arent taking my job. Their poopy english isnt gonna effect my life one bit. So if they wanna teach english, let em. The natural progression of things will even out eventually. And hell , if it werent for crappy english teachers, some of us wouldnt look so good!
When I tried to post a comment just now, I got a message saying "please login at frist".
philbravery:
Don't worry ,Im sure one of the perdantic's would have sent a three page explanation of the problem to admin
I'm not a teacher, nor a native English speaker. I do mistakes. Despite this, I appreciate when I see some efforts to write a nice post, with punctuation, proper writing, and less than half of the world miss-spelled. Crappy posts without structure, punctuation and one mistake per word, gives me the same feeling as a dish of soup thrown at me across the room by an angry cook. There are auto-correctors and edit function. Besides, I can haz cheezburglar ?
I'm with CharlieB and DrMonkey : if you come across to others as an illiterate hillbilly, then expect to be considered and treated as such.
Common spelling errors and typos (Chian, anyone?) are not a big deal. Acting liek yuos on yuos biatch fon dissin yuos hos aint nvr gunna giv yo the street cred roun heah.
I'm not only a teacher, but I'm the one who does the hiring. if i find u right liek dis on da net, i haint gonna sider u 4 a job...evah!
Sum ppl no care, but whut u do online might come back and bite u ltr on.
So, try to be eloquent and at least semi-literate.
@samsara: so ture, so ture.
mike695ca:
i think someone got promoted to " head teacher" and is a little too proud of himself!
bill8899:
Gee mike, you do enjoy taking shots at teachers. I wonder why?
mike695ca:
not at all, i enjoy taking shots at people that slyly brag. find creative ways to point out that they arent "just" your average teacher. They are better. Self gratification at others expense. im surely not saying im completly innocent. but still enjoy pointing it out none the less.
Sinobear:
"Slyly brag"? I've been a program director for various programs in China for 14 years. I'm currently a partner in an educational company. I still teach because I like to.
My point was, for those who are GMs at the airport where everything else goes over their heads, is that colloquial and lazy English is fine between friends, but isn't going to get you taken seriously outside of your own circle. Self-gratification? No, I take pride in my work and my students. I don't look down upon others or demean them, some people take care of the self-debasement all by themselves.
icnif77:
Anybody knows, how to make 'Reply of the Month'?'Them, provoke me again!'
mike695ca:
Self gratification is a fitting term there. Im glad you like teaching, but dont try and act like you didnt sit there and come up with a paragraph solely for the purpose of sharing with everyone how your "not just a teacher". It was a post about grammar nazis.
Did you ever think that people do treat this forum as a circle of friends? That they sure as hell were not worried about one day having to stroll into the great and powerful Sinobear's teaching area for an interview? No one gives a shit if you would hire them.
But you know that. The whole purpose was inflating your ego. And your only proving it further by getting so defensive about me calling you out. If you truly where so great, you wouldnt need the justify yourself to a lowly guy like me. If you have been here for this long you should realize that " program director" is not going to grant you any more respect, just eye rolls.
There are countless posts discussing this exact topic of people being a teacher, but wait! so much more!
As your people skills are obviously lacking let me help you out on how to deal with people in a group setting. Hypotheticals. Its not hard. " IF I WERE interviewing someone with poor grammar, I WOULDNT, blah blah blah" you get the same point across without shoving it in everyones face.
Your welcome. That ones free.
Sinobear:
When you hear person 'A' complain about person 'B', you learn more about person 'A' than person 'B'...sure learned a lot about you Mr. A.
mike695ca:
Im sorry you got hepatitis but dont go throwing those wild accusations at me!
'Why there are so many Grammar Nazis here on this site?'
Did OP 'refurbish' his original Q?
I read it at first:
'Why there are so many German Nazis here on this site?'
You get extra bonus points for corrections, bu something i wrong with this site, I have to rey hal o what I write
It's pretty simple. If you can't be bothered to actually think about what you want to say before saying it, then you shouldn't be taken seriously. When someone is (or claims to be) a native speaker, there is no excuse (and "Lolz. My English is stoopid, but I dun care b cuz iz 2 cool for grammmor" is not a valid excuse).
On a forum like this, all communication is through writing, so how you write reflects on you in a huge way. Write in a lazy and unintelligent manner, and expect to be treated as a lazy and unintelligent person.
It appears that Chinese grammar nazis are quite more intense with incriminations.