{"id":3814,"date":"2015-04-24T08:20:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T15:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2015-04-24T08:20:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T15:20:54","slug":"grammar-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=3814","title":{"rendered":"Grammar police"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I came across this article: “Stop shaming people on the Internet for grammar mistakes. Its not there fault.”<\/a> The author urges more compassion for the oh-so-common grammar mistakes that we are all prone to and provides an interesting dissection of the cognitive reasons for those errors.<\/p>\n

“Mocking another person for making one of them is like mocking a heart for skipping a beat. Errors are a routine part of our cognitive systems,” the author, Andrew Heisel, claims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While “mocking” isn’t productive, I think “awareness” is. Some grammar rules do seem needlessly arcane, but others have evolved to reduce ambiguity and increase communication. And so I find the Twitter bot called Grammar Police<\/a>, which automatically detects and tactfully points out grammar errors in tweets, to be both fascinating and useful. <\/p>\n

Mr. Heisel introduced me to this bot by way of criticizing it. But the bot has 19,500 followers, and I don’t think that they all subscribe merely “to pretend, 25 times a day, that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re perfect and other people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s foibles are not your own.” In fact, I observed that some of those whom Grammar Police called out in an automated post actually thanked the bot<\/a>. The bot’s postings might even inspire some readers to look up “nominative case.”<\/p>\n

Now I’m thinking that a statistical analysis of the bot’s 85,400 tweets (and counting) would be quite interesting. What are the most common types of errors? And how many of them inspired a thank you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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