There are those who (in your words) “patrol” threads looking for the least offense. I personally am not one of those.
However: there are those of us who are reading threads and find most egregious grammatical errors and comment about those same errors.
Those who love our language are always going to take offense when a major misspeak occurs. I GRATE every time I hear the word “decimate” used when the writer means “destroyed, obliterated, utterly ravaged, razed to the ground”.
Decimate literally means “reduced by 1 in 10”, for heaven’s sake!
“Irregardless” is as much a word as “irredundant!” You either mean *regardless* or *irrelevant*.
There, their, and they’re MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS!
Rant off. I have dozens of grammatical/spelling issues, but I have to get back to work tonight.
An apology to each of you for the double post. I left the ‘puter and posting windows were still open, so I re-posted them. Oops.