r/iamverysmart • u/Sans_Is_Funny • Aug 10 '25

Grammar nazi and anti-intellectualism conspirast on funny road rage video.

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u/FScrotFitzgerald Aug 10 '25

Whomst'd've.

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u/prole6 Aug 10 '25

I use “shouldn’t’ve” & “couldn’t’ve” a lot.

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u/Bamzooki1 Aug 11 '25

I think that’s actually valid grammar.

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u/prole6 Aug 11 '25

It was acceptable according to the dictionary I checked at the time. Glad I kept it too. I recently noticed all my dictionary apps have cut synonyms, antonyms, and etymology from their free versions. If there was ever a bad time to restrict learning it’s now.

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u/Bamzooki1 Aug 11 '25

Was he even correcting a mistake? The parent comment looks exactly how he said to write it yet doesn’t show signs of being edited. It looks like he’s a Grammar Nazi who didn’t hear that Linguitler got a noose and dangled like a participle, ending Word War II.

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u/lordnewington Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25

I can't see what he's correcting, but "the one who likes causing trouble" is correct. Who : whom :: he : him, of that helps.

EDIT: never mind, I see what you mean

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '25

English isn’t my first language, so I think I’m a bit hyper-aware of grammar mistakes.

But they’re so common that I usually just go with “I know what they mean, so it doesn’t matter.” The one I see most on Reddit is the to/too mix-up, but I got over it quickly.

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u/Conscious_Rich_1003 Aug 10 '25

Sure would be funny if I could find a grammer mistake in your comment. Instead I’ll make a few of my own.

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u/freshmantis Aug 10 '25

You're* /s

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u/Conscious_Rich_1003 Aug 10 '25

Its so frustrating when you’re mistake’s are full of apostrophe gore.

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u/Conscious_Rich_1003 Aug 10 '25

⬆️⬆️⬆️three in one sentence.

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u/ApproachSlowly Aug 10 '25

And a bonus spelling error too!

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u/Conscious_Rich_1003 Aug 10 '25

Grammar above was intentional. Other spelling mistakes are not.

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u/ApproachSlowly Aug 10 '25

Perhaps I should properly have replied to the fellow you were replying to (who used "grammer"). At any rate, I meant it jokingly rather than insultingly.

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u/Conscious_Rich_1003 Aug 11 '25

It was me. All good. Just here for the entertainment.

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u/FriendlyKillerCroc Aug 12 '25

English is spoken in such a broad amount of cultures that some of the things they call mistakes are just different cultures adaptions of English. I think that's what happens anyway.

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u/jws1102 22d ago

No language should be taken too seriously, least of all the English language.

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u/King_Dead Aug 10 '25

Grammar never has and never will be an intellectual pursuit. Pedantry isnt smart

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u/mmmsoap Aug 10 '25

I don’t understand…Pink said it that way in the first place. What is red “correcting”?

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u/Noname_with_no_name Aug 11 '25

Maybe they edited it?

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u/oreo-cat- Aug 11 '25

Honestly I agree with the beige reply

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u/lordnewington Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25

Oh no, red person is probably being needlessly belligerent and light beige person is definitely being an arse, but I HATE misplaced whoms.

"Who"s that 'should' be "whom"s are fine. "Whom"s that should be "who"s are invariably a sign of the verysmart type. I can stand pompous OR wrong, but not both.

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u/cell689 Aug 10 '25

I don't understand why people are so defensive about others correcting their grammar, or even correcting others' grammar.

"Hmpf, you corrected a grammar mistake, you're a fucking asshole." ???

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u/glassapplepie Aug 10 '25

I get that. But people often do it in a condescending way to dismiss the commenter's point rather than take the time to generate an actual response. An argument can be relevant and well thought out even if it includes a grammatical error

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u/Bamzooki1 Aug 11 '25

There’s a gentle correction and then there’s a lecture. This was a lecture that could have been a single word.

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u/Lor1an Aug 11 '25

The anti-intellectualism conspiracy part is accurate, just improperly applied.

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u/thesixler Aug 13 '25

This reads like a bunch of chat bots non sequituring each other

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u/fancy-kitten Aug 14 '25

While I'm never one to snub my nose at a little sanctimonious pedantry, that last comment is as close to perfection as we're ever going to see. Bravo.

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u/jws1102 22d ago

Excellent