{"id":9850,"date":"2025-08-04T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/790954348839600128-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:03:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:03:03","slug":"790954348839600128-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/790954348839600128-2\/","title":{"rendered":"790954348839600128"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https:\/\/donotdestroy.tumblr.com\/post\/789023431924596736\/are-you-a-language-bully-if-so-give-it-a-rest\">donotdestroy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2013\/09\/language-bullies-pedants-and-grammar-nerds-who-correct-people-all-the-time-cut-it-out.html\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2013\/09\/language-bullies-pedants-and-grammar-nerds-who-correct-people-all-the-time-cut-it-out.html\",\"title\":\"Are You a Language Bully? If So, Give It a Rest.\",\"description\":\"Can you recite the dictionary definition of peruse from memory? Do you have the etymology of short-lived stored in the recesses of your brai\",\"site_name\":\"Slate Magazine\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"c3f5a82f2dad183924baf9462f42d186:f8c513c3baf65526-63\",\"type\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"width\":568,\"height\":346}]}'><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2013\/09\/language-bullies-pedants-and-grammar-nerds-who-correct-people-all-the-time-cut-it-out.html\" target=\"_blank\">Are You a Language Bully? If So, Give It a Rest.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who engage in public corrections of this sort often are looking to feel good about themselves, and, according to Beno\u00eet Monin, a psychology professor at Stanford University, displays of language all-knowing-ness provide a ready-made, two-pronged opportunity to do so. \u2018The way we evaluate our competence is relative to other people,\u2019 he says. &#8216;If I need to feel good about my language skills, one way that I could do that would be to give myself evidence that my language skills are awesome. Another is to give myself evidence that other people\u2019s language skills suck. So by putting down other people, I can feel better about myself.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>donotdestroy: Are You a Language Bully? 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