Temat: Correcting others
Lidia K.:
I've just seen a GL profile with a mistake in Polish and am wondering if this person knows about it.
Would you write a PM to discuss it with the concerned person or should I forget it?
Do you correct others in (non-work, non-teaching) context?
Is it bad manners to tell someone about their mistakes?
I think it is but perhaps you have a different opinion.
*I work with texts A LOT, so double spaces, no paragraphs, wrongly used caps or missing comas drive me nuts in written texts, but GL is not my work field, so perhaps I should relax? ;)
Ehm, Lidia, how should I put it... you've made a mistake in *missing
comas! ;))
I correct people sometimes, but make sure it's in a kind of joking way, so that they aren't offended (I haven't offended you, Lidia, have I? ;)) And I usually only do it with people I know well.
Sometimes I do it, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I don't or hardly notice it, sometimes it's not worth it, sometimes correcting someone comes as an impulse (that's the worst thing!) and sometimes it's because the mistake sticks in my mind and correcting someone is the only thing for me to stop obsessing about it ;) Sometimes I just can't help it. Let alone that correcting others is part of my job.
But then, I make mistakes too, and probably more often that I'd like to believe. Sometimes I experience a kind of 'superego effect' of realising I'd made a mistake after some time passed from writing a post. Then I go back to it, and yep, there it is. And I always correct it - that's what editing function is for.
And I don't mind when someone corrects me.
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