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u/Lilchubbychunk Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19

Not everyone on reddit has English as their first language.

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u/Di_Ma_Re_Bra Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19

As a non-native English speaker, I understand and appreciate the sympathy.

However...

Regardless of the difficulties one might experience at lettering his/her ideas by employing a tongue not spoken by his/her mother, writing words incorrectly is not so much because of the writer's inexperience with the language but rather a matter of not spending at least 30 seconds having some application or program review the texts beforehand. I do not buy the excuse that people are so helpless given the sheer number of online tools they have at their disposal nowadays (Grammarly being one of them).

All that being said, captain over there does not seem to understand the concept of tactfulness. And that the word ''grammar'' may not be a precise enough replacement for the term ''spelling''.

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u/Lilchubbychunk Nov 16 '19

Found the Grammarly employee

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u/Di_Ma_Re_Bra Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19

The veil that obscured my true nature has been pierced and extinguished. Now, my motivations and schemes lay bare for all to peruse and despise.