When a quibble is over the use of the word "is" then I'm guessing the quibble goes deeper than grammar.

Bingo bango sure does.
On two fronts.
There's absolutely no reason to doubt my English fluency.
Zero. None.
Hence when someone who is already, shall we say, salty with me asks me if English is my second language... Which in point of fact it is!... Its clearly as an insult. And when someone asks me that, and commits a grammatical mistake whether on purpose or as a typo in doing so well, that's always amusing to me and I suspect to others.

The second front is that confronted with that typo, they went ahead and doubled down and claimed that both versions were correct. So rather than just own up to an English grammatical mistake while trying to insult my English fluency, he doubled down and legitimately tried to gaslight me into believing that both versions were the same! Ha!

Wordtune.com is another helpful site to use .

Very likely.

But then why go on to claim that both versions are correct?

@TheMiddleWay Don't know. Does it really merit an argument?

@Betty
When there are only two people in the discussion and both claim to be right, the only way to break the deadlock is to bring a third or more people in.

Alienbeing tries to gaslight me into thinking that both are correct forms of the English language. Clearly I can't say anything to break the gas light so, well, I bring it up to the community and see what they think!

@TheMiddleWay Good luck in your quest, wish I could help.

@Betty
The near unanimous affirmation of proper English on this thread completes the quest quite nicely.

He tries to ESL-shame me?

I'll let him EFL-shame himself!

@TheMiddleWay So you had to start a separate thread to shame him?

@barjoe
I'm not shaming him.
His words shame him.

@TheMiddleWay Not on this thread he didn't.

@barjoe Eh, sometimes you gotta give it back to assholes like @Alienbeing...

@ChestRockfield I don't like to pile on to people. I had it done to me when I first came on the agnostic dot com website so I try not to do that.

Depends on if they defended the position or admit to the mistake. I didn’t see the conversation, but he has displayed a little bit of a belligerent streak in my few engagements with him.

@Garban to be fair I would defend a typo mistake on this website. For some reason words and or letters dissappear due to poor coding or lack of updates. It's happened to me many times. Especially so in my bio, I'll fix an error and two to three more will pop up in parts I didn't change.

@Tejas you are correct. I’ve had numbers especially disappear. However, I’ve never seen a word added. But it wouldn’t surprise me.

@Garban yeah it seems to mostly be numbers. I use my phone 100% of the time too, so spellchecker can make or break some words

Alien being takes himself very seriously and does not need any encouragement in that regard as he is doing exceedingly well on his own, so I blocked him.

There will always be those who if they cannot find fault with your argument will look for something to find fault with it is as though their very life depended upon it.
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Totally.
But even a typo when trying to insult someone for their purported lack of English skills is just too precious not to share!

You mean “for fuck’s sake”.

@Garban
I was wondering about that.
Didn't know if the saying was based on a plurality of fucks or a fuck's possessive nature.

The comment as not a insult, it was a question because you didn't follow the "conversation" suck it up.

Now for the REAL insult, you love to bicker about nothing, making you a dull person.

@TheMiddleWay I always thought it was similar to "for Christ's sake"...

@Alienbeing “a dull person”? Seriously?

@Garban Yes, I find his bickering dull and annoying at the same time.

I don't think a respose to you is important enough to proof read.

@ChestRockfield
For the sake of christ.
For the sake of fuck.

I like that.
Makes sense.

He's a retired lawyer.

@skado A native what? Why do you ask?

Is he high is again?

@Garban I wish.

Seriously