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Chickens asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 1 decade ago

"When correcting a person’s grammar on the Internet ,invariably you make a grammatical error of your own"How?

"This is called Muphry’s Law (intentionally misspelt)."

Can anyone tell me how correcting someone's grammar on the internet is incorrect grammar?

Update:

Not Murphy's law, but "MUPHRY'S LAW'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law

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    Correcting someone's grammar does not make your grammar incorrect unless you actually have made a mistake.

    Murphy's Law is simply a theory that states that, in any given situation, what can go wrong, will go wrong.

    EDIT: "Muphry's Law" is the same concept, simply applied to spelling and grammar. It's not that correcting someone automatically makes one incorrect, but rather, the "law" simply points out the irony (and regularity ) of people making grammatical mistakes as they correct someone else's. The name itself is just a clever play on Murphy's, and it is, more or less, just a joke that harpoons how people behave.

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    5 years ago

    Muphry's Law

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