Ask HN: Is it immoral not to correct someone else's grammar on social media?

Re:Ask HN: Is it immoral not to correct someone else's gramm... by incomingpain on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @02:56PM (#45279906)

There is no authority over the english language. Your set of grammar rules are certainly different from virtually everyone else.

>People use grammar to judge your education and intelligence all the time.

You really shouldnt judge others; like ever.

>And so it would seem that failing to correct someone else's grammar online is not just unhelpful — it is immoral.

So you're saying correcting someone's grammar is helpful and moral?

Nobody is stopping you from doing this of course. If you believe it is moral to do, then do it.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it immoral not to correct someone else's gramm... by firefax on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @03:59PM (#45280676)

>There is no authority over the english language.

Thanks for this. I often see folks like OP very condescendingly tell people they're not writing "correctly", while forgetting that English is a constantly evolving language -- at a certain point if a "mistake" becomes mainstream, it becomes an acceptable one.

(I'm struggling for more complex examples, but think of how people will say, declare "that's not a word"... well, usage of "not a word"s is how they end up going into the dictionary...)

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Re:Ask HN: Is it immoral not to correct someone else's gramm... by amichail on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @04:29PM (#45281000)

Actually, we do now have a few tech authorities of the English language.

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