reasons you need to stop bragging about your “perfect grammar and spelling”

-it’s ableist

-it’s annoying

-it’s probably nowhere close to perfect, not even by your standards

-you sound like a fucking brat

-language evolves; or, as my favorite linguistics professor used to say, in his deep russian monotone: “language is alive”

-sherman alexie: “grammar cops are rarely good writers. imagination always disobeys.”

-like i can’t even tell you how true that is

-errors do not necessarily suggest a lack of understanding

-the belief that “perfect grammar” is a real thing rests on the assumption that there are certain ways of writing and speaking that are fundamentally incorrect…

-and ultimately, racism and classism are the primary determiners of what’s considered “correct”

-there are so many other things to take pride in—why settle for being an elitist piece of shit?