Is there a reason behind this or is it just a quirk?

January 6th, 2009
  • whenever i'm in a bad mood, i correct everybodys bad grammar. like when they talk. i think its just a quirk. what do you think?


  • I think when you're in a bad mood the little things get to you more and this is probably why you notice and correct people's grammar more.


  • yea it could just be a quirk, everybody has there own. If it bothers yu just try to cut down on doin it so much, eventually yu will be able to catch yourself


  • This is a mild psychological affliction called obsessive-compulsive behavior.

    It gets reinforced if someone will not draw your attention to it.
    Maybe if you get told off to lay off by your close friends you will stop.
    If they let it go too long, you will end up being mildly annoying or develop a reputation for being an obnoxious person.

    It is great that you know there is something wrong. If I were you, I will simply resist the compulsion to say something.

    Bite your tongue is good advice.
    so is "Let it be" Leave it alone".

    Think about it this way

    They wont change just because you said something.
    You mean nothing to them, therefore your opinion regarding their grammar is like the dust floating in the wind- unseen and unfelt and of no consequence to their wellbeing.

    Save your precious energies for yourself.
    Become a grammar teacher and teach.




  • It depends what you feel when you are doing it.

    You might be malicious... trying to make people feel as miserable as you do.

    Or you might be constructive, trying to help in order to boost yourself out of your misery. I myself went through the phase of self-sacrifice to the specific people who pissed me off most.


  • A wonderful trait: "Eats, Shoots and Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!," Truss and Timmons, is about a woman who, in a bad mood, began correcting everyone's bad grammar, and became a celebrity. Real story, really funny.

    Imo, focus on grammar indicates a love of word, blueprint, order, plan, and a dislike of disorder, impurity. Anger/bad mood, imo, develops from a sexual-social tension, in which your sexual-social anger/bad mood focuses on misuse of the word, as a means of orienting your sexual-social ambivalence towards desired (level of) control.

    "Emotions," Marilyn C. Barrick, Ph.D.,
    "Sexual Force or the Winged Dragon," O. M. AIvanhov,
    "Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei," Weinberger and Paz, and
    "Mindset," Dr. Carol Dweck.







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