 What's up guys EvilD here and today I wanted to speak to you about a particular pet peeve of mine and that is grammar nazis. They seem to be just multiplying in Esperanto or they seem to be everywhere. Now to give you an example of what I'm talking about is for instance I'll see a new Esperanto, someone who's been learning the language for say like a two or three months max or something and he'll ask you like any question within one of the Facebook groups on the forum somewhere. He'll ask a question and it will be completely like not on topic of grammar in any form. It'll be say let's say what's your favorite sports team and then some random person out of a group of say 10 will jump in and go you forgot the accusative case you shouldn't be speaking the language like it's very rare you see that but I have seen it in order to speak but most of the time it'll be like you made this mistake this mistake this mistake and then they won't contribute at all to what he was actually asking about in the first place. Now that's what annoys the hell out of me because one a lot of people like I mean a lot of people are really timid when it comes to actually speaking or even writing a language that's not their native language they're afraid to make mistakes in a public space a lot of people don't like to be pointed out and actually scares them off from learning the language or at least practicing it more if they get pointed out in a public space with like their errors so if you see an error in someone's text don't just comment on it and list all the errors and I don't want to hear the excuse or it helps other people who's learning no it doesn't it doesn't help at all you just look like a jackass in all honesty because for one those people they may be completely terrified about the fact unless of course they write in the message saying feel free to correct my errors which I do every now and then but if they don't write that send them a personal message and say hey look I see that you learn the language that's great I've noticed a few little errors in your text you need some assistance like I'd love to give you a helping hand or if you want to practice there's this group and this group or whatever but don't just straight out say you made this mistake it's meant to be transitive when it's intransitive or you shouldn't be using this word it's not a cognate of this English word or whatever or in particular this one a noise of crap out of me people who go you can't use slang or you can't use this because that's not what it means it means this by the book when everyone actually uses it this way look you may have ingrained beliefs about certain aspects of the language or the philosophy of the language but don't bring that up in a discussion where it's not welcome so and when I say not welcome I mean if the discussion's got nothing to do with grammar now unless someone asks you a question within that discussion just leave it off or give them a personal message because so many conversations I'll see an interesting conversation I'll be like oh and I want to jump into it and then I'll notice this one person talks about this random grammar thing and then this other person would jump in and then start speaking about and then suddenly the whole conversation is about this random grammar concept and the original thing is just completely gone it's just like no one's speaking about it anymore and the original post is probably looking at all this and going oh my god I've made a massive error and now that these people are all looking at me and they're probably terrified and they don't want oh I messed up my hair and they don't want to speak about this stuff anymore so I just want to say one last time if you see a mistake and you actually sincerely want to help someone send them a message okay it's not hard now I know you might feel like you've written all this lovely information and it's going to help someone else but send them a message because I've spoken with people and I've seen them stop like speaking in public spaces like writing I mean and that's purely because they're scared of making errors people are terrified of making errors like some people don't realize what it was like what it's like like for other people like me you point out my errors whatever whatever thanks for that mate that's all cool but not everyone's like me not everyone's as open about it as me a lot of people are terrified and the last thing we want to do is scare anyone off of learning Esperanto simply by just smashing them with this you know with the some massive grammar book and go here's the ground whack eat that you got to solve that first before you can communicate with us because most of the time the errors that I see it doesn't actually break down the communication anyway I'll be like yeah he dropped an accusative here or he used this word when he actually means his word you know it's okay I can I can get what he's trying to say unless of course you totally don't understand what he's saying but then you just simply say look I don't understand can you just rephrase that and if he still struggles then maybe try and contact him if you know his national language and help him out but yeah it's just something that it just gets to me every time when I see this there's so many conversations I just think push completely off a topic simply because these people just love to have these grammar debates so I just wanted to finish this up with saying if you've liked this video give it a like share with your friends especially the grammar and artsies out there they might need to see this and if you haven't subscribed already subscribe and I'll see you in the next video and if you're not there I will go into your facebook profile find every single goddamn error and I will correct it