Study : people who point out typos are A-holes

[cootuk]

http://gizmodo.com/study-people-who-point-out-typo...

According to a bunch of fancy linguists, people who are more sensitive to written typos and grammatical errors are indeed the kinds of Type A assholes everyone already suspects them to be.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.137...

[RobDickinson]

Lul I bet they r.

[pembo]

Genuine typos are fine.

People who don't know which version of there to use need a slap!

[E36GUY]

Author can't spell extrovert.

[Whitean3]

I guess that makes me an ahole then.

I don't mind the odd typo- mistakes happen. What I loathe is people using appalling 'txt-speak' and awful grammar.

[Cotty]

pembo said:

Genuine typos are fine.

People who don't know which version of there to use need a slap!

and people who loose the plot.

[andy-xr]

There's pointing out typos and there's pointing out typos because you're in the middle of an argument and you've got nothing much else to contribute, so go for something completely off the wall

[JagerT]

andy-xr said:

There's pointing out typos and there's pointing out typos because you're in the middle of an argument and you've got nothing much else to contribute, so go for something completely off the wall

You mist a full stop off the end.

[mgtony]

Should 'people' in the thread title have a capital 'p'?

(Not too sure about the punctuation marks in the above question)