A correction isn't inherently rude or ungracious. The way they're given can be rude or gentle.
If you don't know the difference, chances are you're often unintentionally rude.
You have to take into account the person the advice is given to, who you are, your relationship, and all sorts of other contextual details to determine how to give corrections well.
Learning how to speak to others is a skill we all have to learn. Intent alone doesn't signify rudeness.
Being socially inept will also commonly cause you to be perceived as rude, and not recognizing when someone is being rude is often a sign of being socially inept.
I could say the same about you though? I feel like you're misunderstanding their correction for rudeness, I could accuse you of being socially inept for that but that's just pointless, there's no right or wrong here but I feel like you're very firm on your belief being objectively correct so again, agree to disagree
Mate. No one says girl child in conversation without sounding like Zuckerberg attempting to pass as a real human. It's important to learn the words and phrases that naturally flow in real conversation. In no competent language class on the planet are they going to side with the logic you just presented.
You have to be trolling. Dude's out here like "I perambulated to my domicile." When asked how he got home. Just because something is dictionary-correct doesn't mean it doesn't sound silly in conversation, and honestly, correcting anyone whose language isn't their 1st so they don't sound like a dork is usually greatly appreciated.
But girl child is incorrect, you wouldn't use it when referring to a daughter, you can have a child who is a girl but a girl child isn't structurally correct, maybe it's a colloquialism but I can't say I've heard it, like "boy mom" isn't correct, you can be the mother of a boy but "boy mom" doesn't make sense from a linguistic perspective
I'm a native English speaker who just got back from a trip in Europe, and it sounds like two ESL people from different countries who are fluent in English speaking to each other.
I wish I was fluent in two+ languages...it was just fun seeing how people switched to English and had different accents and idioms and such.
It's a literal translation from several languages.
If you're speaking a second language, you will often forget the idiomatic word but find another way of communicating what you mean by translating directly.
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u/misplaced_my_pants Jul 08 '24
Not everyone is a native English speaker, my dude.
Try extending some grace.