Slipping on a comma and crossing the fine line between being a grammar stickler and a jerk

Grammar and punctuation are important, but people even more so

Every now and then I receive memes from old friends highlighting apostrophe catastrophes and suchlike indiscretions. They’re generally funny and always make me think: Am I a grammar jerk? The kind that obsessively corrects people’s punctuation and pronunciation? Then I remember, I do. But it’s only in my mind. It’s unfortunate that good friends can look into my brain and see the struggle. In my defence, I may be grammar-sensitive but I fall short of jerk status. And here’s why.

There’s a difference between being a grammar-sensitive person and being a jerk

When the English Education Act of 1935 decreed Indians be educated in a Western curriculum, in English, it decided not just an educational but a cultural course, which persists well into the post-Brexit age