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Personally, I think the grammar bots fit right into Reddit culture.
Everyone is a smarty-pants on Reddit!
I do hope that people respect the instance hosts and go easy on the trivial bots when it comes to Lemmy though.
I didn't mind the fact that it was there, I was always just annoyed at how useless the memory hints were. Like yeah, of course I could spell "neither" if I just remember the e comes before the i... that's the problem.
It's like saying "if you want to be rich just get more money" or "NASCAR is easy cuz it's all left turns"
The "I before E" rule is weird.
Yeah... A lot of exceptions to that rule, mainly because of how the English language developed.
I after E, except after C; when it sounds like "ee".
....or when sounded like "ay" as in "neighbor" or "weigh".
Actually, let me double check that with my foreign buddies Keith and Heidi, they've got eight children who are all cops and busted a major counterfeit heist the other day. Weird, right?
Man, English blows.
Gimme Newspeak already. The world isn't cyberpunk enough yet.
I after E, except after C; when it sounds like "ee".
I wish there were more. I just found out at work that "deprecated" and "depreciated" are different words, it was so embarrassing.
In your defense they have pretty similar meanings.
I always thought it's funny to see such a spelling bot on linguistics themed subs where everyone was like "fck you descriptivist" and they were downvoted into oblivion
You mean prescriptivist? 😅
(beep boom I'm a human)
I mean, I like knowing when I'm saying something incorrectly, and learning the correct way to say it. I value communication through text a lot because I have some issues with communicating verbally, so I like to know how to properly write what I want to say. So I didn't mind the grammar/spelling bots as long as they were polite about it, they were just providing accessibility to knowledge, at least in my eyes. It was the rude or condescending ones I didn't like.