To Err is Human. To Correct is Divine?

I've done that on occasion, too, Noddy.

oops...

I paint over the original endings of classics and rewrite it in the hopes that school kids across america will fail their term papers.

I like to quietly and politely correct peoples grammar
when they are shouting very obnoxiously at me.

But a book? Never! The written word is far too sacred to
disrespect with correction and minor censorship.



BTW -- "grammatical" has two m's.

eeeeeww!

Are you my mother-in-law, Noddy??? She does that -- and another truely lovable thing she does is tell waitresses about the spelling errors on menus. Sound familiar??? heehee

Hey -- if you can help somebody out, why not, right?

I'm more like CB -- if someone is annoying me (and hopefully mispronounces something in the process) I'll gladly let them know. With books, I figure that either they'll know what the mis-spelled word should be, or they'll figure it out on their own.

LibertyD--

Once an English teacher, always an English teacher.

It makes me absolutely furious when I find corrections pencilled into library books. Absolutely furious.

If you want to write in a book, buy one.

It truly makes me see red.

Clarification here--I don't correct grammar. If the grammar bothers me, I stop reading.

I correct typos--particularly the typos that spell check misses such as,
"Three hours of raid had left him very web."

If it is a new book, I usually drop a postcard to the publisher so the error can be corrected.

When possible, I erase other people's intrusive comments or corrections. There are some exceptions. I remember an indignant note on "red-headed" reminding the author that this gal had been blond back on pp. 34 and in her hectic life there had been no time for a dye job.

I err so often, I must be divine. c.i.

My mother was an English teacher, and I was brought up with such strong strictures against making marks in books, that in college I could not bring myself to underline important points in my text books. To this day cannot highlight books that I own for research. I'm afraid I'm with ehBeth.

I correct people in forums, not books. I figured that if people are educated/learned enough to read them, they would spot the misprint .
I am so glad to see that i'm not the only one who have such tendencies. People tend to wax nasty when corrected and i have no idea why. They like to wallow in bad grammar, weird sentence structures, limited vocabularly....