History Main / CorrectionBait

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* The ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' [[http://xkcd.com/326/ example]] on the trope image. [[note]]Most people are unfamiliar with the uncommon use of "effect" as a verb, which means to "bring about".[[/note]] Besides that, ''xkcd'' also has a comic showing [[http://xkcd.com/386/ somebody getting busy on correcting someone wrong on the internet]], which is the current EditWar page image.

[[caption-width-right:214: [[AltText What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:334: [[AltText "Time to paint another grammarian silhouette on the side of the desktop."]]]]

%%The "Describe Correction Bait here." part of this page is an intentional self-demonstration, and should not be corrected by any tropers. The others are free to correct, however, if it's needed.

-->-- Creator/LawrenceWattEvans

A form of SchmuckBait. Sub Tropes include GrammarNazi, StylisticSuck, EditWar, YouMakeMeSic, FandomBerserkButton. See also SoBadItsGood, TheInternetIsSeriousBusiness, AccentuateTheNegative. DistractingDisambiguation, XylophoneGag. Compare SuperOCD, ThePerfectionist, FlameBait and SnarkBait. Contrast SomebodyElsesProblem. May result in {{Hypocrite}}, LetsSeeYouDoBetter, NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer, AluminumChristmasTrees.

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->''I can't take it anymore! It's spelled "Describe"! How could you forget the freaking "s"?''

* In one episode of ''Series/Sherlock'', the title character gets a lot of information out of the victim's wife very quickly by voicing several incorrect assumptions about her husband. He explains to John that, while people are often reluctant to answer questions, they are almost always eager to correct a mistake.

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* In ''{{ComicStrip/Blondie}}'', Dagwood once noticed a bakery with a misspelled hand-lettered sign advertising something. He went in to correct it, and came out with food. The bakery owner indicated that he had intentionally done it, and it was bringing in a bunch of business.
* BeetleBailey featured the same gag, with a misspelled "Dougnuts." After Beetle and Sarge leave with a bag of donuts (having stopped to report the error), the proprietor comments that the missing h brings in ever more business.

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A form of SchmuckBait. Sub Tropes include GrammarNazi, StylisticSuck, EditWar, YouMakeMeSic, GannonBanned. See also SoBadItsGood, TheInternetIsSeriousBusiness, AccentuateTheNegative. DistractingDisambiguation, XylophoneGag. Compare SuperOCD, ThePerfectionist, FlameBait and SnarkBait. Contrast SomebodyElsesProblem. May result in {{Hypocrite}}, LetsSeeYouDoBetter, NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer, AluminumChristmasTrees.

-->-- LawrenceWattEvans

-->'''Sheldon''': Or ''DonQuixote'' is a book about a donkey named Hotay.

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/blog/8-questions-every-wow-fan-apparently-needs-answered/#ixzz2H532m8hI

[[DescribeTropeHere Describe Correction Bait here.]]

[[DescribeTropeHere Decribe Correction Bait here.]]

A form of SchmuckBait. SubTropes include GrammarNazi, StylisticSuck, EditWar, YouMakeMeSic, GannonBanned. See also SoBadItsGood, TheInternetIsSeriousBusiness, AccentuateTheNegative. DistractingDisambiguation, XylophoneGag. Compare SuperOCD, ThePerfectionist, FlameBait and SnarkBait. Contrast SomebodyElsesProblem. May result in {{Hypocrite}}, LetsSeeYouDoBetter, NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer, AluminumChristmasTrees.

%%The "Decribe Correction Bait here." part of this page is an intentional self-demonstration, and should not be corrected by any tropers. The others are free to correct, however, if it's needed.

This is a TruthInTelevision, since somehow we all have different extents of SuperOCD to become perfect, and correct every mistake we find. And bad things are usually more memorable than normal ones, which may also have contributed to it. And oh well, did we tell you that correcting others provide a form of superiority?

A form of SchmuckBait. SubTrope include GrammarNazi, StylisticSuck, EditWar, YouMakeMeSic, GannonBanned. See also SoBadItsGood, TheInternetIsSeriousBusiness, AccentuateTheNegative. DistractingDisambiguation, XylophoneGag. Compare SuperOCD, ThePerfectionist, FlameBait and SnarkBait. Contrast SomebodyElsesProblem. May result in {{Hypocrite}}, LetsSeeYouDoBetter, NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer, AluminumChristmasTrees.

'''Please only list in-universe examples here - some people may think every RealLife CorrectionBait is intentionally done, which is not true. Also, no work is perfect - to a enough picky/smart audience, there's always something that can still be corrected, so it'll end up listing every work there.'''

It's also the very reason of ThisVeryWiki to have RepairDontRespond, as well as preventing {{Natter}} and FlameBait.

* The ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' [[http://xkcd.com/326/ example]] on the trope image.[[note]]"Effect", when used as a verb (which is rarely done), means simply "cause as an effect"; most people don't realize it has such a meaning.[[/note]] Besides that, ''xkcd'' also has a comic showing [[http://xkcd.com/386/ somebody getting busy on correcting someone wrong on the internet]], which is the current EditWar page image.

->'''Ask a question and you may not get an answer. Provide a ''wrong'' answer, however, and see as twelve corrections are thrown at you."

* In one episode of ''OpenAllHours'', Arkwright put up a sign with deliberately bad grammar in the hopes that people would come into the shop to correct it.

* ''[[{{ComicStrip/Blondie}} Dagwood]]'' once noticed a bakery with a misspelled hand-lettered sign advertising something. He went in to correct it, and came out with food. The bakery owner indicated that he had intentionally done it, and it was bringing in a bunch of business.

* The ''{{xkcd}}'' [[http://xkcd.com/326/ example]] on the trope image.[[note]]"Effect", when used as a verb (which is rarely done), means simply "cause as an effect"; most people don't realize it has such a meaning.[[/note]] Besides that, ''xkcd'' also has a comic showing [[http://xkcd.com/386/ somebody getting busy on correcting someone wrong on the internet]], which is the current EditWar page image.
* One ''SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' comic involved a psychopath taking revenge on his old grammar teacher - he locked him in a cellar with a bomb and a cellphone, telling him that he will receive a text and the bomb will go off if he texts back. The text contained a grammar error...

* In an episode of ''TheSimpsons'', this is Lisa's reaction when Bart describes Zorro as a history lesson come to life when they go to see a film about it.

* The ''{{xkcd}}'' [[http://xkcd.com/326/ example]] on the trope image.[[note]]"Effect" means simply "causes as an effect", but is rarely used as a verb, so most people don't realize it has such a meaning.[[/note]] Besides that, ''xkcd'' also has a comic showing [[http://xkcd.com/386/ somebody getting busy on correcting someone wrong on the internet]], which is the current EditWar page image.

-->'''Penny''': See, there it is, theres that twinkle.
-->'''Sheldon''': Well, I cant help it. Thats an involuntary twinkle.

* The ''{{xkcd}}'' [[http://xkcd.com/326/ example]] on the trope image. Besides that, ''xkcd'' also has a comic showing [[http://xkcd.com/386/ somebody getting busy on correcting someone wrong on the internet]], which is the current EditWar page image.

* The ''{{xkcd}}'' example on the trope image. Besides that, ''xkcd'' also have a comic showing [[http://xkcd.com/386/ somebody getting busy on correcting someone wrong on the internet]], which is the current EditWar page image.

!Examples

->''"I can't take it anymore! It's spelled 'Describe'! How could you forget the freaking 's'?"''

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