Correcting in public is almost always a dick move. Precisely because you don’t know the circumstances:

1. They may be neurodivergent.
2. They may be facing a language barrier.
3. They may have been in a hurry and didn’t pay attention.
4. They may suck at typing.
5. They may have been burned by their phone’s autocorrect.
6. … and a cast of hundreds more.

Since you don’t know, shutting the fuck up in public is the best thing. Ask if they mind correction, and if the answer is negative, correct them. IN PRIVATE.

The only time it’s OK to correct people unsolicited in public is if they’re being utter shits and acting as if they’re smarter than everybody else. Then go after each and every error they make as an object lesson in why you don’t act like an utter shit in a public space.

Several elections apparently.

Several elections apparently.

There are a couple of words you might want to look up. These are “dyslexia” and “dysgraphia”.

For the latter, no, they cannot improve their spelling for the future. It is literally impossible and correcting them constantly is a huge drain on their self-worth.

(P.S. Good on you for asking, however, instead of lecturing.)

Well to be fair, that link of intellect to language is something NTs can’t help either. That’s their wiring. Indeed I’ve used that wiring to hack judges in some of my students’ speech competitions back in the day. It works really well. 😂

This right here. Correcting ND people publicly is a shit move by shit people.

And apparently also very nice.

I mean, you seem nice.

I went to school with someone dysgraphic. I edited all his papers because he couldn’t spell the same word five times in a row with the same spelling. While the profs were aware, we very tightly link mental capacity with linguistic capacity and even with the best of intentions his inability to spell would cause marks to go down.

The phrase common sense originates from the Latin sensus communis and the Ancient Greek koine aisthesis (κοινὴ αἴσθησις). In classical philosophy, particularly in Aristotle’s writings, “common sense” referred to an internal faculty that unified the information from the five physical senses, allowing an organism to perceive a coherent reality. This faculty was considered distinct from rational thought but essential for basic perception and judgment.

That’s why. This is the original use. It mutated over time, however:

Over time, particularly by the 16th century, the meaning shifted toward “ordinary understanding” or “basic intelligence,” the kind of practical judgment expected of any rational person.

And that then further mutated into the current, somewhat contrafactual meaning:

The phrase came to signify both the shared, basic intellectual capacities of ordinary people and, sometimes, the conventional wisdom or prejudices of the majority.

I like microwaved eggs for scrambling.

And here we have an example of exactly what I was talking about.

Here’s a little hint, Sparky. Literally nothing you responded to translates to “everyone is the same”.

There are no smart people. Everybody is stupid (where “stupid” is defined as “prone to maladaptive behaviour and/or belief”), no exceptions. There are just some fields society values more when less stupid than others.

This isn’t a spelling error. This is a grammatical error. “Your” is correctly spelled. It’s just the wrong word.

The ability to use the correct words

“The capacious aptitude for the judicious deployment of linguistically felicitous and semantically apropos verbiage,” I think you mean.

Not even slightly surprising to me. Mention China, directly or indirectly, and the fee fees of American neocon thugs get hurt and the downvote brigade comes out to fight as only they know best to fight.

I thought Kissinger used violence to dismantle democracies, not TikTok?

Empathy. It shocks me how many “adults” have a toddler-level understanding of their relationship to the world (as in it doesn’t revolve around them) and society (as in we have responsibility for each other). So many “adults” sound like screeching toddlers whenever there’s a hint of someone else getting something they don’t get. It even reaches the level of “I don’t like this movie so it shouldn’t have been made” as if the very existence of entertainment or education or whatever in a field they themselves don’t prefer is a personal affront.

And this isn’t even a right-wing thing. The feminist National Action Committee in Canada was turned from a potent and feared political force to a laughingstock by ostensible left-wing women deciding that their concerns over daycare trumped native women’s active murders among other intersectional issues.

I try to have a piece of fresh fruit (whatever’s seasonal: right now it’s mangoes) about an hour before I go to sleep.

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The downvoting brigade is out in force I see.

Terrified, are we, about an alternative to the current broken system?

Who said anything about GPS, though? It could easily be those “bluetooth beacons”, right?