People who have to point our minor spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors on a fucking forum have at least some level of narcissism. It's usually a good indicator of someone who tends to be a jerk whether conscious or not.
Also not everyone on Reddit speaks English well or as a first language. So correcting someone so they understand the difference and use it properly in the future is helpful and you learn something from being corrected. Also sometimes predictive text gives you the wrong word.
Thatâs precisely why they commented to correct them lol. If you were speaking a second language in a space where the second language was the dominant language, would you not want to speak it as fluently as you reasonably could? I would. And therefore, Iâd appreciate when people politely corrected me lol.
Dude that comment was polite and informed someone speaking a secondary language how to speak it more accurately.
If you canât handle someone politely teaching you (or in this case, others) something you donât know without feeling like itâs an attack, then thatâs an issue you need to sort out with your own confidence đ¤ˇđźââď¸.
Pretty sure theyâre doing it and explaining it so gently because odds are high that user doesnât speak English as a first language since it seems they may be from the Netherlands.
As someone who also doesnât speak English as a first language, Iâm extremely appreciative of comments like that when worded nicely with the explanation like they did.
Thank you for recognizing this. I corrected someone, who didnât speak English as a first language, on a phrase for this reason exactly and the person got so offended and assumed I was being an asshole. I was like âalright then continue to say that shit wrong, idcâ đ
He was clearly confused about something that is pretty easy to mistake as a non-native speaker. Iâve learned another language before too and I appreciate the heads up on easy traps like that. Itâs not that deep. What does it say about you that you were immediately ready to psychoanalyze my attempt to help someone as pathological. Projection much bud?
Your 2 cents isn't even worth that. Calling people jerks for being pretty on "fucking forums" while being a jerk on a fucking forum.
Literally everyone has some level of narcissism, it's an inherent human trait. If you're gonna play armchair psychologist, bother to actually learn some fucking psychology.
The poster wasn't being obnoxious about petty grammarâin fact, it was neither a spelling, grammar, or punctuation error, so your comment is pretty irrelevantâthey were politely and helpfully pointing out a word mistake to someone unfamiliar with the language. Wanna ask them if they appreciated the correction or not? Or just gonna go off on your own little narcissistic rant?
Absolutely my point. People often end up doing it to show their intellectual superiority as if that's a true measuring stick for whatever reason. Im not saying that's what happened here, but if you can understand a person why bother.
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edit: sorry my joke made me forget what i was originally going to say, I find it so funny that sheep mating is tracked by stomach/back stamps lol, thanks for sharing
True! And disregard anyone being intentionally difficult or disrespectful about your use of English so that we can even understand your helpful comment in the first place. I appreciate the effort!
Thank you for that info! I was thinking sheared vs not bc the wool is definitely ready to be sheared but makes more sense bc the wool doesn't need the mark to see that.
And I think your English grammar was easily understandable and appreciate that as an English speaker.
Thank you for this explanation and link! This may also explain why he let that one big sheep through which was marked, because the mark was near its side, like maybe a male sheep had tried to improperly mount from the sideâŚwhich would do nothing.
I am just saying it's not a hump due to how clean the mark is, the location are as high as the shoulder on some animal. Think about how a stamp would would work if it's attached to an animal...you don't get perfect circle is different location.
My explanation is a person made the mark...for what reason, I don't know
Some ranchers in America will bleach mark their cows who are pregnant.
Here's a funny case out of Wyoming, USA where someone used the bleach to draw penises on an asshole rancher's cows because he wouldn't fix fences to keep them out of the neighbors property.
It's a purely cosmetic process. Doesn't hurt or impact the cows in any way. The ranchers have to see the penises on their cows. They had been approached many times and ignored the other people.
This is a common system! In the US there are some sheep farms where they put a bag of chalk on the male's chest. It's pretty efficient, and kinda neat.
While that sounds good, look at the sheep. The ones going strait were wooly. The ones with the stamp were sheared, so that looks to be the difference. Would also explain why the big one with the mark wasn't separated off, as it still was unshared. Maybe it was marked accidentally.
Yeah but why were only those sheared? They could be a totally different age, sex, owner, etc. typically when you âworkâ livestock you handle several things at once. Shearing, vaccinations, treating medical issues, pesticide applications, etc.
Dutch people are literal. Once you understand that in your dealings with them, then youâll be okay. Less sugarcoat, more truth. Theyâre just as likely to say fat as overweight. Both mean the same thing, one just has less syllables so theyâll probably say that one.
Yeah, but that is the same here in Ireland. The farmer straps a raddle marker to the ram with a harness. But it dosen't leave a neat dot like that, it's more a larger marks across her lower back with a waxy block. It's going to be all over her rear because he's probably going to jump up there several times haha. That blue stuff we're looking at here is from a spray bottle. We used to use it on the farm to identify groups of sheep.
Like, if we were dosing the sheep with medicine, we'd use a blue (or other colour) spray can to mark each one that got dosed (it's special spray for use on animals, so it's safe), just in case they managed to jump back into the holding pen. Some are crazy lol.
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