If you've ever been online for more than 10 minutes, you probably know that the internet is crawling with know-it-alls. People try to one-up each other in all kinds of fields: pop culture, politics, and even simple everyday physics. If anything, the internet is the birthplace of the "Um, actually," catchphrase.
But netizens also love humbling those who trust their intellectual capacities too much. The second incarnation of the ill-fated Facebook group of the same name, "People Incorrectly Correcting Other People 2.0", is the place where folks post people embarrassing themselves by acting like they know better. General rule: if you're correcting someone, better check with Google first to see if you're not mistaken.
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I NEED to see the next reply to that. I really really do :)
Load More Replies...The one replying is a troll/fake account, he is always out leaving replies like that. He is really funny, there are some collections of his best ones.
Trying to imagine why the Rabbi would think he was a typo.
I think you will find it was Frankenstein that stated E=MC squared.
Nah, that was his cousin Albert. Victor just made monsters.
Load More Replies...Do you hear that whooshing sound? That's the joke going over your head.
Load More Replies...They are having a row. Or should that be they are having a rough?
Correcting others' bad grammar online is probably the most common offense of the internet's know-it-alls. Maybe even you, Pandas, have pointed out someone's faulty spelling in a comment section somewhere? If you had, you're in good company: many Americans admit to doing the same.
In fact, according to a 2014 YouGov poll, 21% of Americans consider themselves to be part of the online grammar police. Younger Americans, specifically those under 30, said they were more likely to habitually correct the grammar of others.
I pitta the person who thinks they can argue a naan disclosure agreement.
I always hope that this kind of posts are made up, but then ..... I remember there're really people out there that dense.
I still remember an Austrian I met in Chicago decades ago. He had a T-Shirt that said "there are no kangaroos in Austria"
Load More Replies...Cannot wait to go to Austria for the kangaroos and drop-bears.
Ironically, grammar correctors make mistakes too, as you'll see from the many examples in this list. The same YouGov poll also showed that only 60% of the respondents were able to identify the incorrect use of "it's" and "its" in the sentence "My oak tree loses its leaves in autumn."
Interestingly, younger respondents were, again, more successful. 70% of the under-30s made the right correction, while only 56% of over-65s did the same. Other common spelling mistakes people make involve the words "who" vs. "whom," "which" vs. "that," and "affect" vs. "effect."
The people who think a third pounder burger should cost less that a quarter pounder cuz you know, a third is smaller than a quarter.
Load More Replies...Considering that these people are even allowed to vote in your country, nothing surprises me anymore ;)
True, Blue Shirt, but the sign reads 1 Kilometer. I'll let you ponder that for a while.
Cute that you think they're capable of pondering
Load More Replies...You have to give it to stupid people for their audacity to double-down.
That's what I would have responded w too! Idk why the down votes...shrug. Fixed one.
Load More Replies...Those who belong to the online grammar police also have some common personality traits. In 2016, researchers analyzed the habitual grammar correctors and found that they tend to be more judgmental of other people.
According to the researchers, extroverts were more likely to overlook grammar mistakes in an email responding to an online ad looking for a roommate. Introverts, on the other hand, were more likely to judge the author of the ad.
Give her a break. She's probably been cited for court appearances so many times, she thinks this is the only spelling.
I had a bit of an argument about "Personal Jesus." I was listening to Depeche Mode's album Violator, and was told very confidently that it was a poor copy of Marilyn Manson's song, they were singing it too slow. Their "proof" was that Manson's version was on a "Best Of.." album of his, so it was obviously historical and an older record. Violator came out in 1990, Personal Jesus charted in 1989. Manson's version was 15 years or so later.
I had the same argument about the Johnny Cash version once
Load More Replies...Someone needs a vasectomy bc they're too dumb to Google this information.
Those sensitive to grammar mistakes were also found to be more disagreeable. "Less agreeable participants showed more sensitivity to grammar than participants high in agreeability, perhaps because less agreeable people are less tolerant of deviations from convention."
Never made a mistake but been sure you are right? I refer you to one of your own comments in this thread re their/there.
Load More Replies...Nah, it's the acronym for National Dyslexia Association
Load More Replies...The Rolling Stones had a science-related song, "She's my Little D and A." Play it to your kids if you're a teacher.
I would love to tell you all what my husband said D&A would be an abbreviation for but BP would just censor it.
I learned deoxiribonukleinacid for extra credits on a homework in 4th grade. Of all homeworks that one fit really stuck. Spelling optional but I can yell it out when asked.
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Load More Replies...I belive the misunderstanding is: "They're intelligent" Vs. "Their intelligence"
You obviously missed the time the secretary of education - the woman who doesn't know AI from A1 steak sauce - declared that they're, their, and there are the same thing from now on. I kid you not.
I was blissfully unaware of that until just this moment. Too depressing to google, I'm sure it's true. Sigh.
Load More Replies...FFS this is so stupid. They read from the Bible specifically in Gilead.
I've never read the book, nor watched the series, but even I know it's Christian-based.
Load More Replies...He obviously has no idea of Charlie Kirk's biblical interpretation of women's rights.
Are you kidding me? It's a random, silly meme about someone dumb getting correcting, and you bring up CHARLIE KIRK? Why are you randomly trying to start political arguments when everyone here just wants to look at funny memes?
Load More Replies...Duh. Reading comprehension. You duz not haz it. No, she does not appear to have done "EXACTLY" that. Not even close. Yes, she was "ALSO" inspired by some aspects of the Islamic revolution, especially by those things that are very much similar to Christian theocratic belief.
Load More Replies...There is also a difference between correcting a person with the intent of teaching them and just asserting dominance through such corrections. A 2022 study analyzed this in the context of Twitter. The researchers found that the majority of corrections have no goodwill behind them and simply seek to humiliate.
In 61% of the analyzed tweets, the grammar police "used verbal bullying only to attack the face of authors of the posts." In the case of the remaining 39%, the users were correcting others constructively, "with intentions to correct grammatical errors."
Blackberry, plum, Persian plum (prune), redcurrant, and many more fruits are named after a color. BTW, oranges came before the color orange.
British do have a reason for using more letters, they earn more points in Scrabble and other word games.
You can blame the French for us Brits adding letters to words and spelling things differently with r-e instead of e-r at the end of theatre and centre. D**n them and their Norman conquest. 🎶 I'm William the Conqueror, my enemies stood no chance. They called me the first English king although I come from France.🎶
Norfolk and good: I blame the Angles and the Saxons for stupid British spelling. Look at Cymraeg - it all makes perfect sense. It's the English language that's the problem, not those Norse buggers who settled in northern France before invading these septic isles. I'm English, with recent French ancestry - oh yeah, and recent Welsh ancestry too. 😁😉🤣
Load More Replies...British use more letters for no reason? Gnarly! Pneumonia! Pneumatic! Gnaw!! What really puzzles me is how Arkinsaw is Arkansas. Nothing to do with unnecessary letters but wow!
Those dang Brits, just sticking letters here and there just for no reason, adding in extra vowels just so they can act all stuck up about it. They're not impressing anyone with their fancy AEs and OEs with aetiology and oestrogen! Then they jam it together to make æ and œ. Look at us, we got fancy ligatures! Makes me sick.
Day Andie: ahem. Cymraeg is a far older British language than English. Meanwhile, why whinge about writing styles that evolved long before printing? (I spy your humorous intent, and raise you one).
Load More Replies...You are right. Dutch and German are both Germanic languages. They have the same relationship that Italian has with French and Spanish.
Load More Replies...It's safe to say, then, that correcting someone's grammar and spelling errors is just a way for some people to feel superior. Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, Benoît Monin, explained to Slate that correcting someone in public makes us feel good about ourselves, and that's why we do it.
And yet, Americans ridicule foreigners and immigrants for not speaking proper English.
Besides the fact that 3 Year can't distinguish flags, Ireland has better transportation options, better education, and lower employment. But the most important difference - no Trump!
In what Ireland do you live? Transportation s***s and the bar of your education is LOW.
Load More Replies...Took me a while, but some of us have never seen the film
Load More Replies..."The way we evaluate our competence is relative to other people,” Monin told Slate. “If I need to feel good about my language skills, one way that I could do that would be to give myself evidence that my language skills are awesome. Another is to give myself evidence that other people's language skills [are bad]. So by putting down other people, I can feel better about myself."
In chemistry lab in college, weighing on an analytical scale, we were taught to simply drop the least significant digit (treated simply as an error factor), so in that case it would be correct to round 15.826 to 15.82. But that's a special case. My general rule for rounding is if the least significant digit is zero through four, then round down. Five through nine, round up. My condolences to anyone who doesn't know what "least significant digit" means.
Now investigate bankers rounding (had to program it once, it's a pain!)
An early urban legend had it that someone made a fortune by shifting the rounded bits to their own account, IIRC.
Load More Replies...I once got 3/5 on a work evaluation and they rounded. They rounded down to zero.
No. Y'all is correct, as it's short for "you all." If you're referring to a larger group, you would use "all y'all."
That is a word I've yet had a need to use. I don't normally address a group of people in a direction-giving way, as I'm not a Southern mama
Ah thank it depends on which part of the South ya'll come from. Ya know what ah mean.
Oh, the 9 I got from your mom. She also gave me gonorrhea, but that doesn't help with the math.
The main question then is why we love putting other people down. Most cases of correction in this list are people in some way or another making fun of others. Some do it more politely; others do it much harsher. Still, for the corrector, it's often about superiority and control. Even spectators or those who read and "like" the correcting comments engage in a form of ridicule.
France, Spain, and the Netherlands is how come the fledgling USA beat the Brits. Funny how every 4th July, the Yanks always forget to honour their allies...
Ah, yeah, the Brits were an ocean away. Right up until their troops landed on American soil and fought American guerilla fighters. But comparing contemporary military tactics with those from the past is a dumb analogy.
So is comparing the founder's constitution to present-day. Especially with THIS SCOTUS!
Load More Replies...Oh, Streamingpika, you were so close to putting this math-moron to shame. But then you confused weeks with months.
Yah, $140 per week is $7,280 per year, and that's a nice chunk of change, but if you're talking putting that $20 per day into a savings account and depriving me of my booze, smokes, and gambling you are out of your freakin' mind. (snark)
Almost got it. It would be $4200x12= whatever that is. Most importantly, how does one save $20 a day if you only get paid biweekly, or weekly?
They accidently put 30 weeks in a month lol. OK: Three friends buy a pizza for $30, each contributing $10. After they pay, the manager realizes the bill should have only been $25 and sends a waiter to return $5. The waiter, unable to split $5 equally, keeps $2 as a tip and gives $1 back to each friend. So each friend has effectively paid 9 dollars (9x3=27) and the waiter kept 2. Where did the other dollar go?
I'm not getting into this % squabble. The only percentages we should concentrate on is how Trump is going to get pharmaceutical companies to lower their drüg rates between 400% - 1000%, and this is great news bc it means they have to pay us for taking their medications.
Anybody can get a pharmaceutical company to pay them to take their d***s, as long as they are willing to take d***s being tested and they are willing to report any side effects. Fun fact: a d**g study for heart disease discovered many of its participants reported the side effect of engorgement in their uh nether region. The d**g was marketed as Viagra
Load More Replies...Give me big word and I can usually figure their meaning. I am kind of smart, but math? Not so much I'll let ya all argue about % percents.
And this is why some people buy a fistful of lottery tickets instead of one.
If you really mean that it changed from 10% to 90%, you say "The chance increased by 80 percentage points."
Distressingly many people don't get the difference between "percent" and "percentage point." Where I live, a certain tax increased from 4% to 5%. A *newscast* called it a 1% increase.
Load More Replies...I would understand this better if there was a base number to start from. You can't just say a percentage, then give another percentage that becomes another percentage and say it's right or wrong without knowing what the original percentage is.
It certainly can. If your chance was originally 50%, increased BY 80%, your chance increases to 90%.
In 2021, Macedonian researchers found that those who like to put others down and use disparaging humor usually project their own feelings. Essentially, it's how they adapt to the world that might ridicule them. So, to avoid being the victims, they ridicule first and boost their self-esteem. The researchers theorize that they were likely bullied as children, and developed this as a defense mechanism.
For the extra $540,000 I think I could tolerate the inconvenience of the payment in pennies. Am I getting them all at once? 60 million pennies might cause a storage issue
But think of the fun of spending them all at once on a sports car!
Load More Replies...The price of copper being what it is, the pennies might be the wiser option--provided they were minted before 1982 of course.
That amount of pennies wouldn't get accepted. I'm going with the $60,000.
EITHER WAY, it’s CASH. $60,000 or $600,000. Choose the $600,000 goofballs!
Load More Replies...He's an alien orphan immigrant. One of the few immigrants that can be correctly referred to as an alien.
you do know in English the word alien just means foreigner, thus any foreigner is literally an alien? In old Sci Fi visitors from outer space were called Space Aliens, as in foreigners from space. Over time we shortened it to just aliens. But in the law, including all court and legal documents foreigners are still called by the classical English word "Alien" both Legal and Illegal, as refering to if their status as a foreigner was within the law or in violation of immigration law. These are legal term
Load More Replies...Please, please, please, don't vote and don't procreate. I'm begging you.
I don't always believe in prefixes or suffixes too. That my dear is how I flunked the 3rd grade
Do you like to correct people, Pandas, especially online? Would you consider yourself to be part of the Internet's grammar police? Let us know in the comments! And if you're in the mood for more fails, check out our previous publication about people who had one job but couldn't even do that one thing right.
Get outta here! You've never heard, Lace up your guns, boys. We head out in the morning.
Load More Replies...Remove, as in re-move, or move it again. Clearly that means you're allowed two moves in fact. Right?
Load More Replies...OmegaFive. Even I know that Zelda, as in Princess Zelda, is a girl. You're thinking of Link, the boy she's friends with.
Riley Quinn: I've read that apparently, Link was intended as a gender non-specific character - the idea was that everyone would be able to identify with them. To anyone who finds the concept of inclusion triggering, I suggest you go boil your head.
Load More Replies...In this case, "affect" is the verb and "effect" is the noun. However, there are situations in which "effect" is the verb and "affect" is the noun. English is not a language; it's a dozen languages in a trench coat.
While I can properly use affect and effect, their misuse doesn't have the nails-on-chalkboard effect that there/their/they're misuse has.
I always have to look it up when I want to use either of those words to make sure I'm using the correct one.
Verdigris is one of my favourite colours in the world. I’m sad for anyone that doesn’t know about it.
I believe it was George Washington's favorite color also. The main room in Mount Vernon is painted verdigris (at least it was last time I toured there😊).
Load More Replies...10 minutes to make one cut means 20 minutes to make two cuts. The student was correct.
OH. MY. DOG. Is our teachers learning? THIS is the result of children brought up plugged into an iPad. They become adult teachers who can't do sixth-grade math.
Either Marie is inept or she was making a lengthwise cut with a handsaw. But what riles me the most is that the teacher is wrong. Hoping this error was just a brainfart and not the usual teaching method.
Ooops. Although when I found out the American name ‘Co - lynne’ was just regular old Colin I laughed for about a week (in the UK the Co is pronounced as if you’re about to say ‘cough’, with the emphasis on the first syllable. It’s sort of a ‘normal’ (boring?) middle aged man name)
If I wanted to pronounce Colin with a short O, I'd have to spell it Collin.
Load More Replies...This is an accent thing and depends on which h part of the US you are from. Vowels are tricky.
No, it's whether people have actually *read* or whether they are just trying to repeat what they've only heard.
Load More Replies...It's nerve-racking, although some dictionaries now include nerve-wracking.
ADD and ADHD are neurodivergent disorders, and they do overlap with Autism in some cases. Just keep in mind that Google doesn't always have the correct answers.
And every LLM chatbot doesn't always have the correct answers even more.
Load More Replies...Can anyone explain what on Earth that diagram is supposed to indicate?
Idiots now have access to AI inage generation. They'll use it exactly like idiots will, to try not look like idiots.
Load More Replies...Me too. Zig Zag. And another thing (Which I will be roasted mercilessly for) is I just found out about battered women. All these years I've been eating mine raw. /running away
Load More Replies...Of course you do Sweetie. You, and only you, know what you're talking about.
I would say elder generations making sweeping stereotypes about the younger ones is also a trope. If we reverse this a moment, we could say, "Your generation willfully ignored global warming, is ignorant to what life actually costs now and had little need for anything above a GCSE to support a family." How those ones landing on you, maybe disgruntled at being lumped in with those stereotypes? Sentences that start with, "My generation..." are about as useful as, I remember my crazy old bat of a grandma telling me," followed by something hillariously outdated. Spread unuion, not division. The internet is a huge place, and these are the worst examples. Youre doing the equivilent of watching Americas Funniest Videos and concluding, "arent all americans such clumbsy idiots."
Load More Replies...The Dutch version: "America isn't between Canada and Mexico, it's between Venray and Weert!" (yep, we named of our Dutch villages America. And another one Amerika by the way)
I was just looking up if there was an Aldi’s in the state of Wyoming, USA. A Google search showed there were two of them in Wyoming. Was getting excited for kiddo who lives in that state, but he didn’t recognize the names of the nearby cities. A closer look showed they were located in the City of Wyoming, Michigan, USA. I feel some cartographer is trolling us.
Voting you up because whoever voted you down is just dumb. But big dumb. Texas-sized even.
Load More Replies...Yep, Texas is big enough to contain (Almost) ALL of the stupidity in America !
I don't even know where to begin. Should I start with the fact that's not Texas, it's Australia or go straight to the fact that Africa is 3.9X bigger than Australia which is 11X bigger than Texas?????
Yeah, this is an interesting one. Must have, or must've when spoken. Is slowly changing to "must of". I think this will become the normal way to write this in a few decades.
Glad I don't have a gun bc after reading all these posts, I'd probably use it.
If Bugs Bunny cartoons were still being created, you might be able to say, What's updoc? And then fail a joke
It would make more sense if it was updoc. I’ve ever seen it written as updog, which is stupid and not funny.
It's a play on "What's up, dog?" (Alternatively spelled "dawg"). A slang greeting for a friend.
Load More Replies...Zig Zag Wanderer: where I come from, it's "bidmas": brackets, indices, division, multiplication, addition, subtraction. Not sure where you get that "o" from... 😉 (No, I'm older than that acronym AFAIK - I do however seem to have a school aged child in the house...)
Load More Replies...Interesting that he knows the mnemonic PEMDAS and then still gets it wrong. He just kept applying the multiplication for some reason.
The answer isn't zero. Order of operations is important.
Load More Replies...Oh, Katie, where's the million in millennium? Seriously. Move the hair out of your eyes and take a good, long gander at the spellings.
Reminds me of Obelix trying to understand the hierarchy of the Roman army and concluding that if the Centurio outranks the Decurio the next one would be the Millurio....
Let's ask Richard Dawkins since he invented the neologism, meme, which he pronounces as "meem".
It’s pronounced ‘meem’ and I learnt about memes in the 80s at college. Back then they had a useful sociological meaning about cultural habits and norms that developed independently without anyone deliberately causing them. Now it just means a stupid picture with some words on.
Depends on which kilt you are thinking of. What we know as a kilt today was created by Thomas Rawlinson, an English ironmaster in the 1720s. He adapted the large, unwieldy "great kilt" (féileadh mòr - a large piece of tartan fabric used by Scottish Highlanders in the 16th century, serving as clothing and bedding) into the more practical, pre-pleated "small kilt" (féileadh beag) which I suspect is what most people think of.
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Everybody, say hello to my obsessive stalker troll with a thousand names. Today he is known as Brady. However his correct title is Captain Wafflestomper. Captain Wafflestomper, why not take this opportunity to introduce yourself to the other Pandas?
He must know you. He's so obsessed. Who do you think he is?
Load More Replies...Reading this article may cause headaches, nausea, depression, anxiety...
Everybody, say hello to my obsessive stalker troll with a thousand names. Today he is known as Brady. However his correct title is Captain Wafflestomper. Captain Wafflestomper, why not take this opportunity to introduce yourself to the other Pandas?
He must know you. He's so obsessed. Who do you think he is?
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