Study: Grammar geeks ‘aren’t as nice’ as regular folks
Don’t you just hate grammar bullies who keep kicking syntax in your face? Good news: You’re a kinder human being, Mashable reports. Now go tell them they’re a bunch of @#^%&* jerks.
Somehow you knew it all along, those of you who hate being hounded by grammar snobs.
You’re just a better class of human being. Now a study proves it.
The study reveals that “people obsessed with grammar aren’t as nice as everybody else,” Mashable reports.
A New York University linguistics professor tells Mashable that those with “a more fastidious personality type would be inclined to have a more judgmental view of deviance from perceived linguistic norms.”
In other words, if you are annoyed by grocers offering a discount on banana’s, you probably trample the neighbor’s flowerbeds for fun and kick your pet skunk when you have a bad day at work.
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