Comment by wldlyinaccurate
10 years ago
Stuff like this bleeds over into my "normal" life all the time, and it's starting to get really embarrassing. Correcting my mother's inaccurate typing on Facebook by replying with a sed substitute pattern only serves to make me look like a douche.
> ...only serves to make me look like a douche.
Forgive me for telling you what you no doubt already know, but there's a reason for that. Actually, correcting people's inaccurate typing at all on Facebook makes you look like a douche, and there's a reason for that, too. I understand how you feel when you see it; I used to feel the same way. But there truly is a lot to be said for the idea that what matters is how well it gets the point across. Besides, having to explain what a sed replacement is and how it works, in Facebook comments, is like having to explain the joke, and only realizing partway through the explanation that the joke was not funny in the first place.