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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Concur that it will likely be repeated, however, I don't concur that it is likely to be correctable, particularly if it is a general pattern of bad usage rather than a rarity. The problem with bad grammar isn't so much that there is a limited series of corrections they need to learn - if that was it, they could pick up a book and sort it all out themselves, had they the desire. The real problem is that people who routinely make these errors haven't developed a habit of critically thinking through and editing what they are going to say before it comes out. That can't really be "corrected" by an outsider pointing out this mistake or that.
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I would think that someone who habitually (for example) places "s"'s on the ends of words where they don't belong ("Barnes & Nobles," say, or "Victoria's Secrets"), or is stuck in pre-school pronunciations of things ("supposably") is not someone who is likely to find inspiration in a book. People who process what they read well (or pay close attention to it) aren't likely the same people making that sort of error, because if they were, they'd have more likely noticed along the way how the words are actually spelled and been able to carry that over into their own communication. But "hey, you did that thing again" at least has a fighting chance of creating a connection in the brain due to the immediate, practical demonstration of the error.
