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alexandraerinI really wish there were a gracious and graceful way to tell people that while I really do appreciate having mistakes pointed out, mini-lectures and explanations of why they're wrong are unnecessary and tend to wear me down.
There really isn't, though, and even if I successfully conveyed to one commenter that there's no need to do this, it wouldn't stop the next commenter from doing the same thing.
The personal bane of my existence is when someone spots an extra period and tells me that one dot is a period and three are an ellipses, but two is never correct. I can understand someone thinking I might need help with subject/verb agreement if I changed one part of a sentence but forgot to edit the other part, or thinking I need help remembering the difference between affect and effect if in haste I use the wrong word, but who thinks that two periods is An Actual Thing? I swear I've received a comment to that effect ten times now and it makes me feel like I'm being schooled on the difference between a napkin and a shirtsleeve.
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There really isn't, though, and even if I successfully conveyed to one commenter that there's no need to do this, it wouldn't stop the next commenter from doing the same thing.
The personal bane of my existence is when someone spots an extra period and tells me that one dot is a period and three are an ellipses, but two is never correct. I can understand someone thinking I might need help with subject/verb agreement if I changed one part of a sentence but forgot to edit the other part, or thinking I need help remembering the difference between affect and effect if in haste I use the wrong word, but who thinks that two periods is An Actual Thing? I swear I've received a comment to that effect ten times now and it makes me feel like I'm being schooled on the difference between a napkin and a shirtsleeve.
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