"You Understood What They Meant" is a lazy cop out, amirite?

Honestly the only time I agree with "you understood what they meant" is when people use someones grammar or spelling as a "rebuttal" in an argument. Because a lot of the time you did understand what they meant, you're just being punctilious. Or sometimes it accidentally happens by double clicking a letter like "too/to" and "loosing/losing".

by Catharine39 1 week ago

Punctilious will now be added to my lexicon. That is a great word.

by Bernhardwilhelm 1 week ago

Just wanted to say I agree with you. Nothing wrong with typos, but native speakers having grammar that terrible is a problem. It's even leaking into professional writing too.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

punktilyus

by Franz38 1 week ago

Oh god…you sound insufferable. Add pretentious to your lexicon. It's all good to be proud of being smart and open to learning. But damn, using a word like punctilious should not be added to anyone's vocabulary when it can be switched in favor for a word that most people know, such as meticulous. The truly intelligent people are aware of the best methods to communicate with their audience. Punctilious can go right off a cliff in most situations.

by ElectronicDog7243 1 week ago

Took the words right out of my mouth. I write and speak for a living. If I can't take a buzzword salad and make it into something a 5th grader can understand, I've failed. I also never view the people using buzz words as hyper intelligent.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I type would of instead of would have 😈🖕

by jaden47 1 week ago

I'm fine with people correcting my spelling. If they do so during an actual disagreement and don't add anything more to the conversation, though, I take that as a sign that they have no further rebuttal to make

by Sad-Feedback 1 week ago

Op u kneed to relax becuase your taking this seriuosly

by EquivalentBird 1 week ago

Ya their taking it way two siriusly

by Anonymous 1 week ago

We are jus ducking a round

by MostFabulous4853 1 week ago

kneed my bread

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Communication is important…. The base need for communication is to understand what they are saying and what they mean. If you understand what they meant then they communicated fine

by kossemmie 1 week ago

I think that's agreeable considering it really just does seem like a grammar n@zi/weird thing to worry about if you truly did understand what they meant especially if it was a letter, an entire word or sentences that aren't coherent to the point of others understandably not knowing is a completely separate argument but the examples used are really nitpicky and probably should just get over it.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If it takes me longer to comprehend because there are spelling errors and incorrectly used words everywhere, it's a problem.

by Bernhardwilhelm 1 week ago

So, did you understand? If yes; it's not a communication issue. If no; then they need to do a better job communicating.

by kossemmie 1 week ago

It is though, communication is just expressing and sharing idea. All that matters is you understand what is being expressed. That's why the rules of language change over time to match how they are used

by kossemmie 1 week ago

Language isn't just about communication, it's about effective, efficient, and precise communication. If someone misspells something, you may know what they meant, but there's also a chance they meant something else and you assumed wrong, and taking the time to think about that degrades the efficiency of communication. It's better for everyone if we just didn't make those mistakes.

by arlo00 1 week ago

Language isn't just about communication Lmao yes it is Every linguist in the world would disagree with you for spouting such nonsense

by Anonymous 1 week ago

When it breaks down and becomes less efficient, it becomes less good.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

So, when you don't know what they mean? Pretty sure I covered that…

by kossemmie 1 week ago

Seems you didn't communicate properly, then.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It seems you didn't communicate properly, then.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Then why did you say less good instead of worse? Pretty inefficient of you

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yea and any rational person would come to one conclusion. It's about context, as I said before if you can't understand what they mean then it's a communication error, if you can then there isn't

by kossemmie 1 week ago

I think it doesn't take most of us longer to read it, so maybe it's just a you thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Except it doesn't take you longer when someone uses "women" instead of "women" You literally realize instantly that they use it incorrectly which means by default do you know what the correct thing they were trying to say is You're just trying to be difficult

by One_Angle 1 week ago

Ok

by Bernhardwilhelm 1 week ago