I still believe that such corrections are inappropriate in this forum.
If someone truly intended to kindly educate the person making an error,
to help said person gain a better control over the elusive English
language, wouldn't that be best done in private?
"Help" given publicly is most often an embarassment, particularly when
the person didn't ask for that help in the first place.
I'm not likely to change my mind on that. I was taught that a boss
should never publicly chastise an employee, and I agree with that. As a
teacher I learned that correcting a student "in front of the class" very
often led to withdrawal from class participation, anger, pain, or a
combination thereof.
To reduce the OT traffic flow here, it seems that we will simply have to
agree to disagree.
l.d.
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On Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:53:21 -0500, Terri FitzSimons wrote:
> Sam Heywood wrote, in part:
>> ...Let us all take their arguments into careful consideration
> whenever any of us should criticize a fellow list member along
> these lines.
> Let all our corrections be considerate and well intended and given in
> proper measure.<
> Well said, Sam.
> Terri
> Official Grammar Sheriff
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