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this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2024
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Downvote all you like, I'm gonna keep correcting people who make this mistake.
I believe you mean, "Even if you, 'down-vote,' my comment, I shall continue to correct people who have made that mistake."
I meant exactly what I said, and it is grammatically-correct casual English. Unlike 'why in sci-fi they use Navy ranks?' Or any of the hundred other 'how to fix problem?' examples I've seen, over the last decade.
This is a growing error and I am doing the bare minimum to help people stop making it. I'd understand if you find it overly prescriptivist. I'd understand if my phrasing was somehow impolite or unhelpful. But I have nothing kind to say about people mocking the effort.
Don't you know? Correcting someone's grammar or spelling is ableist and you have to just try to understand the fountain of garbage that people spew or you're literally Hitler.
noone likes a grammer nasi