Five qualities that annoy your friends, but will make you a great editor

The world doesn’t like having it’s grammar corrected. (“Its”, you say? What’s the difference, you got the message, right?)

If you’re like most language geeks, you’ve been called a Grammar Nazi, banned from forums for pointing out too many language errors, and maybe even compared to Sheldon Cooper.

But here’s the good news — when people need to write that super-impressive job application or essay, you will be everybody’s new best friend (and proofreader).

So this is the test of your talent — have you annoyed your friends by doing all the five things below? If you have, whip out that red pencil and put on your best intellectual frown — you’re a born editor!

1. Correcting people’s grammar instead of responding to what they’re saying.

People get mad when they send you a text message and get your proofreading services instead of a reply. But one day, there going to love you for knowing their’s a mistake in they’re sentences (like in this one).

Proofreading texts instead of replying to them — the mark of a potentially great editor…