Language is basically made to make humanity a less difficult through making billions of people around the world understand each other. Declared by law, English [rather than German] was made the universal language for the world. Thus, it also means that each people at least know basic English words so they could communicate properly.
There might be myriad of reasons why people are getting idiotic. Instead of trying to get the whole thought of one particular statement, they rather aim their attention to how the "is" and the "are" are placed or perhaps, even the punctuation marks placed in each paragraph.
To make it worse, these Grammar Nazis tend to overly define each word and invent more complicated words to confuse people. Why? They're trying to dominate people over their knowledge with the articles one may publish; surely, these reasons are commonly felt.
1. They consume much of their time spotting faults, not the lean meat of the content.
Being a grammar Nazi is the worst title to give for anyone. Both for a writer, a reader, whosoever, can waste their precious time reading, no, spotting grammar faults to the article, not to what it generally intend to say.
2. They give nasty comments to articles [and feel proud they spotted them from you].
This is the most unfortunate situation any writer can have, ever. Based from experiences, though you've given much time and effort to make a good, or shall I say the best article to write on, still, these idiotic people will give comments they can possibly give. They won't care if the writer is compromised or felt really, really bad.
3. They forgot how Ernest Hemmingway, Jane Austen write best of the best literary works.
Since they seemed so busy looking for other people's errors to whatever write-ups they have online or printed, they forgot how great writers wrote their literary works. For example, Ernest Hemmingway, Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winston Churchill, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein are just some of the thousand great people who have bad spellings in their works [both mathematical, literary, or whatever]. If they got such mistakes at their level, how much more for the common writers who writes simple?
4. They equate "good writer" to perfection; faulty works are for "stupid people."
Being knowledgeable to grammar is a plus especially for writers, if used unwisely this is idiotic, however. By thinking about it, they tend to praise people with good glitch-free articles and label them as superb and the "best." If otherwise, these are for "stupid people." Simple. At times, they got so distracted with their works that they forgot to read what the content is. There's nothing wrong about being meticulous, however, if it's already too much, it's totally annoying.
5. They missed the point that grammar is regionally dependent.
To make it straightforward, Philippine grammar is different from the American's. The same thing with American to British, and so on and so forth, it follows the same scheme. Personally, my American editor noticed that from the way I write. She noted that I sounded different from the American way of writing. Yes, she justified it herself. Because of the Philippines' Spanish background, the way Filipinos place each preposition, article, and all, is different from how the standard American writers do. And because there a lot of idiotic grammar Nazis who don't know about this, as simple as it sounds, they just tell you, "You better die than write."
To surmise everything being said, grammar is a fundamental part of a language to make things clearer to what was really meant before said - both written and oral. However, as stated, it can also be affected to where the person is living since in each region, they have different sets of fluency, which is relative to grammar.
Unfortunately, there are people who become so stupid and idiotic that they tend to praise themselves to spot other people's faults and simply bash, rather than seeing the content of the work. They tend to use grammar that much in an inappropriate way.
It's normal to spot them, but it's not if it's too much. Bear in mind that even the greatest writers of all time can do faults, too. But how come they aren't spotted and bashed? This seems weird, we are all writers.
Perhaps, in this post, you're acting like a grammar Nazi, too, aren't you?
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