• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    It’s more effort than a straight read.

    I didn’t correct anyone, by the way. I’m just a different person griping about how much it sucks to have to communicate with people who don’t care about being understood.

    And you’re right, correcting people is even more work! So on top of the work of translating their stupid post we now have to tell them they were wrong so they don’t do this to us again. If they aren’t ever corrected they’ll just keep being wrong and we’ll have to keep translating their posts.

    The alternative is to block them so we never see their posts ever again, which honestly is a better idea. It not like we’re missing out.

    • JammyDodger3579@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      But you don’t have to say anything - the mistake is so easily corrected in your own head that the effort expended in correcting/defending corrections massively outweighs any additional effort it took to “translate”

      You try to make it sound like you’re being rational about the effort expended here, but without quantifying the effort to translate and the effort to correct, you’ve got no way of knowing whether it’s the right course of action. To me, it’s clear it isn’t.

      Also, is there really a need to call the post stupid? Seems like unnecessary effort to me

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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        2 hours ago

        The mistakes compound. It starts with one, but if no mistakes are ever corrected then it won’t just be this one. I’d rather we don’t create a new dialect. So, let’s just nip it in the bud, correct all simple mistakes and ensure communications remain clear for everyone. It’s not even a big deal, someone just pointed out a minor mistake.

        I called it stupid because you made a big deal about this, and I got emotional. It really isn’t! It’s just a small correction and we could have all moved on, but no, you had to die on this molehill and now I’m going to ruin my day being mad at this stupid fucking bullshit.

        We should all work together to be understood. It’s good that people help each other communicate more clearly.