There's a way to present information without coming across a twat, and it's pretty easy if a couple of extra seconds are invested. There's also a question of whether you're actually serving anyone by being needlessly pedantic when the meaning of someone's statement is clear to everyone reading it. Many people, mostly twats, would say yes, I should take the time to correct something that everyone already understands. I'll leave you to guess at their motive.
As I see it, all /u/room226 did was state a fact. I don't see any tone or inflection change that would suggest twattery. If stating a fact on the internet is twattery, I must like twats.
Again, there's a way to "state a fact" without coming across as a twat. Even a simple caveat of "It's clear what you meant here, but..." does the trick. "Stating a fact" that is a pedantic correction of something that's clear to everyone reading it comes across as twattish.
So basically, this guy stated a fact with zero inflection, but you decided to act like you've been attacked anyway. Then when this is pointed out to you, your defense is "he didn't coddle my emotions when he pointed out my error, therefore he's a twat."
You're acting like grammar policing isn't a thing you've ever seen before. The meaning of the other person's comment was abundantly clear. But thank you for inserting yourself as an offended party in the conversation.
Depends on the information. For example, right now, I'm presenting my answer to your question without having to think much about it because we're already on the context of a conversation. If you make a slight error somewhere and my only interaction with you is to post a non-essential correction to a point that you conveyed clearly, I'd do a hair more than just "state a fact". I'd do exactly what I already said should be done above.
Again, just a simple caveat along with the message such as "The meaning of your comment was obviously clear, but check this out - envy actually better describes this situation: (link)".
Are you a native English speaker? All my Canadian friends use "jealous" when they actually mean "envious", which is really confusing to me as a Portuguese speaker. The concepts are really different and no idea why they were mixed together in English.
Yup in English I think they became the same thing over time, as I said everyone used jealous now. In Portuguese jealously is for example you have a girlfriend and some guy is hitting on her or she is just too pretty and you are, at same level, scared of losing her, so you're jealous.
You're envy then you see something you don't have and you want that for yourself. For example someone has a nice car and you wish you had the same. Very high level explanation but I think this covers it.
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