I'd say it depends upon your personal relationship to this person. Critiquing a person's grammar/conversational topics/repetitiveness online is, to me, similar to interrupting a person's loud conversation on the street to do so--and then not criticizing the loudness, but the content. Yes, the person was speaking in a public forum, and yes, the content was aesthetically offensive, and yes, you have a right not to be subjected to that. However, the return that you are likely to get on the investment of time is going to be contingent on your relationship with this individual. A stranger may simply get angry and insist that if you didn't like it, you didn't have to listen/read; a vague acquaintance might be sanguine enough to reply with a bit of good-humored attention to your comment; a student might take it as a teacherly correction with possible consequences for the grade; a friend might feel bad for having offended your sensibilities.
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timeasmymeasure
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Date: 2008-11-15 06:30 pm (UTC)Just my many cents.