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If you can tell what the person means, there's no reason to publicly correct their spelling or grammar.
Hard disagree. Common mistakes ruin grammar because other people will adopt these. And when written language becomes ambiguous due to people not using proper grammar, that's a very important foundation of "words have no meaning" fuzziness employed by populists, and in effect dumbs down people.
I said "publicly." I wasn't commenting on the fact that you corrected someone, but the fact you did so publicly.
The mistake is public. This is where people see it and should also see the correction. The fact that you get your knickers in a twist over a simple word correction, is worrysome. It's not like I said "lol u so dumb OP".
I'm no doctor, but you may want to check these out.
But how else will I feel superior to a stranger on the internet?