Well, I am going to continue doing it because: (1) most people know that I am a Grammar Nazi and that I have been doing it for over three years; (2) the corrections never change what their quote said, much less its meaning; (3) there is always a link to their original material so people can see that it says the exact same thing; (4) in three years nobody (to my knowledge) has ever complained about the grammatical corrections; and (5) I generally have a reputation for being a fair opponent. I have never, ever so drastically changed someone's quote that it changed its meaning, weakened their statement or argument, or turned it into something they never said. (If someone did that to me it would piss me off, so I don't do it to others.) And, again, where I switch words around or add words, I bracket the change to indicate that the wording is mine, not theirs.
Until a moderator tells me to stop, that is—at which point I will cease quoting people altogether, because OCD is not a lark.
Except for some it is an obsessive compulsion (i.e., necessary). It is like turning the coffee cup slightly because the handle is pointing in the wrong direction; they would sooner get rid of the cup than be told they had to endure it facing the wrong direction.
Until a moderator tells me to stop, that is—at which point I will cease quoting people altogether, because OCD is not a lark.
(May 7, 2012 at 7:13 pm)Shell B Wrote: ... it's unnecessary to edit people's posts for spelling and grammar.
Except for some it is an obsessive compulsion (i.e., necessary). It is like turning the coffee cup slightly because the handle is pointing in the wrong direction; they would sooner get rid of the cup than be told they had to endure it facing the wrong direction.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
