By Anonymous - 08/05/2012 22:10 - United States - Chandler

Today, I corrected someone who spelled "learned" as "learnt" on my favorite forum. Nothing could've prepared me for the torrent of abuse that followed from the non-American members. Now I'm banned for "trolling," and all my 7,000+ posts since 2006 are gone forever. FML
I agree, your life sucks 17 434
You deserved it 41 641

Same thing different taste

Top comments

WHAT???! You mean the Internet isn't American?? You should totally sue!

nadnerbz 6

I hope you learned you lesson. Maybe learnt?

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Ammi 7

YDI. You can't go correcting people's grammar and spelling on the internet--which is international, after all--if you aren't aware of all possible *legitimate* ways to spell words. There really aren't many words that have more than one legitimate spelling to begin with, so it isn't that difficult to learn.

Ever hear of these strange folk called the British that talk slightly different from us?

If they're different from us, they must be destroyed!

Was it about a video game? If so good riddance, go outside and talk to people don't chat on forums.

robert76 5

Period. End your sentence with a period.

I know that feeling. :< I went on minecraft forums everyday for 10 out of the 12 months I had been a member and I was trying to post a link to a rage comic but my mouse decided to go faulty on me when I tried to click "Copy" so I didn't even notice until after I got banned that the Ctrl + V I posted was a link to a shock site my friend sent me to hours ago. I got banned, Over a failed mouse click.

I'd be more worried about the things you could've been doing instead of posting 7000 things in a forum and correcting spelling. You could have left your moms house, gotten a job and maybe have gotten laid instead

wuhangdilly 0

Ah, the fragile line between Queen's english and American english. I got trolled for trying to correct someone's video title. I am not saying I didn't deserve it, but i will say it is a through leson in not trolling and accepting the gramtical rules of other countries. Yes he deserved it, but what he got was a harsh but effective lesson.

next time don't try to be a part of the grammar police.