That’s not just you, that’s people who know the rules of the English language and don’t care about Latin or what dead idiots thought.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/prepositions-ending-a-sentence-with

I like ending my sentences with and.

Quote is full sentence: inside. Quote is part of sentence or word: outside.

Eg:

“Oh no!” he gasped.

And

Apparently she’s “done with me”!

Love, an editor.

This is how you’re supposed to do it in Dutch.

The teacher said “silence!”.

Vs

The teacher said “silence”!

Mean something completely different. Although a few large literature publishers do punctuation before bracket because of translation ease, and novels almost never contain partial quotes anyway AND they include the optional comma at all times, which causes

“Silence!,” said the teacher.

Shudder

Especially also when you’re using them to be facetious.

He’s “talented”.

He’s “talented.”

For me it depends on if you are quoting someone (punctuation inside quote) or just using a phrase like “woke” (punctuation outside).

I see what you did there.

This is a thing up with which I will not put.

Nothing about which to be ashamed. 🤓

There’s a funny bit in “the last man on earth” where Kristen Schaal’s character always corrects people when they end their sentences with a preposition. It shows how much more ridiculous her correction sounds.

… Not a great show, but that bit was pretty funny.

Anyone who has a problem with singular they can eat my non-binary ass.

But, at the same time, this isn’t a master’s thesis.

Sometimes autocorrect picks the wrong there, and I don’t notice. And when someone swoops in and says “it’s they’re” with nothing else to contribute to the actual conversation that’s happening, they can fuck write off.

You must have hated Mark Twain.

being corrected about objective things

Language is anything but objective and is constantly evolving based on how people use it.

Listen bruv, if you can understand what I’m saying enough to be able to correct it with 100% confidence than anything that was omitted was superfluous anyway.

The issue is when it is done publicly, it is almost always done in bad faith to try and shame/put someone down and dismiss everything they said due to a mistake. If you want to teach someone you should send them a private message. Don’t put them on blast in front of everyone. It shows a lack of empathy and depicts you as someone who wants to appear superior/better than them. Of course, there are ways to do it publicly but courteously, for example something like “just fyi, it’s they’re not their :) but anyway, I do agree with what you’re saying [or] it was interesting to read your take on this”

Some of us do have “disabilities” though. My thumbs are big and hit wrong buttons on the phone. Dyslexia fucking sucks. I literally can write a whole word with its letters out of sequence, just did that a few hours ago. ADHD makes proofreading fucking tedious as hell. Often i try my best but sometimes i just cant be bothered.

Over all I agree with you though. It never hurts to have someone tell you that you fucked up. It does give you a chance to learn from your mistakes.

Some would say it’s fewer correct, however.

The fact I understand all the vocabulary you used embiggens me.

A lot of languages are pro-drop and do this when the context is clear (and sometimes when it isn’t). I remember learning Japanese and people saying “we would never do that in English!”. My counterexample was always that, if someone came to my house and asked where the beer is, I’d say “fridge.” because that’s all the information the hearer needs.

And we can drop “the” sometimes, “close gate”.

In Spanish, the conjugation of the verb lets you drop the subject, which is eloquent.

“¿Qué haces?”

“Estoy llegando llevando comida.”

Adverbs as a rule can go anywhere in a sentence, so split away, I say!

I’ve always argued for the side of “if your point comes across and is understood as intended, your grammar or lack thereof, does not matter in the slightest”

If you can replace the word with “he”, you always use who. If you can replace the word with “him”, you can use whom if you want to.

Whom did you lead into battle?

I led him into battle.

Who ate all the cake?

He ate all the cake.

The key takeaway is you can always use who and it will be correct, because who is both a subject and an object. So, if you don’t want to bother with the rule, just stick to who and you can’t go wrong.

To whom/for whom is supposed to be the rule for when to use whom, but in American English it sounds way too formal.

if you are familiar with object vs subject in grammar you already know the rule, who is used when it’s the subject, whom when the object:

Who is that?

That’s who ate my ice cream.

Whom did you give ice cream to?

The ice cream went to the one whom I saw first.

This rule is the same as knowing when to use she or he vs when to use her or him, it’s no different.

However, most people don’t use whom correctly and it can just be avoided entirely, most people will just use who as the object anyway and it will sound more natural to them:

Who did you give ice cream to?

The ice cream went to the one who I saw first.

Using whom in these cases can make you sound formal or fancy, and draws attention.

It’s pretty much a dead language feature anyway, at least in my area. Whom sounds pretentious as hell if you actually say it. Like, you’d get away about as well with thee or thou.

There’s a pretty trivial rule for getting this right. Phrase your sentence using who/whom as a question. Respond with he/him. If your response contains a “he”, your initial statement should be “who”; if it contains a “him” then you’re looking at a “whom” use.

• ex: “To who/whom should the gold be given?” -> “To him” -> “whom”
• ex: “Who/whom wants the gold?” -> “He wants the gold” -> “who”
• ex: “Who/whom did you see at the party?” -> “I saw him” -> “whom”
• ex: “The man who/whom called earlier is here” -> “Who/whom called?” -> “he called” -> “who”