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by delluminatus 4693 days ago
Yes, let's ignore non-native English speakers' mistakes. That way, they will never learn, and we can continue to subjugate them, along with those for whom English is a first language, but cannot speak it correctly, probably because they were never taught that "should have" is not spelt "should of" and that their "they're"s aren't quite there.
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"Spelt", in my dialect, is incorrectly spelled, and is a noun referring to a variety of wheat.

Now, was the "correction" I just offered you effective and useful, or was it merely irrelevant, provincial, chauvinistic, uninvited, uninviting, and just plain rude?

(A note to downthread grammar trolls: I just used an Oxford comma, boldly, without apology. Have fun.)