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Okay, I had to Google that!

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Okay, I had to Google that!

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How many mullets did you find in the process?

I prefer Ronald's "give them enough rope" approach, myself. I've been responsible for a few magnificently garbled online posts in the past (usually due to a combination of fat fingers, lack of sleep and thinking faster than I type, combined with hitting 'submit' before thinking to proofread) and run afoul of the 'diskish' GNs myself.

Maybe a more appropriate term for that sort of thing would be 'grammar troll'... those who sit in wait for another poster to slip up so they can correct the crimes committed against the language. The kind of troll who makes no distinction between what could easily be a fat-fingered keystroke or keyboard fault, and what may genuinely be the failings of the overall education system.

One of whom even declared (after correcting a post of mine in whole, on a not-so-controversial of a subject matter, nor was it a post meant to stir arguement), that they had done so to 'translate it so that they could understand it'...

So, if they translated it... so they could understand it... yet perfectly maintained the tone, intent and essence of what I wrote... huh-wuh? It's almost like some are a frustrated wannabe English teacher with the red-pen of anonymity to 'correct the internet'. It added nothing to the conversation, but was simply a correction for the sake of being a correction. Upon further examination of that poster's history, it was their 'thing' or gimmick.

I also tend to be a lot more lenient when it comes to dealing with ESL posters. I've seen a few GNs implode and disappear into the ether when trying to diskishly 'make an example' out of someone who wasn't raised with English as a native language.