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to incorrectly correct someone else’s post’s spelling or grammar.

named for a poster on fark who made the error given in the example.
rotsky:

britney could (struck through)lose(struck through) loose her children

sorry. pet peeve.

another_poster:
nice rotsky there, spelling n-z-.
an attempt by a person to correct the spelling of a word that is already spelled correctly, particularly if that correction is attempted in a haughty manner.
rotsky: submitter: will britney lose loose custody of her boys today?

sorry. pet peeve.

v. 1. to make a grammatical correction when no correction is needed.

2. to attract attention to one’s self through ignorant actions.
a–“regardless, the internet is generally safe for teenagers.”
rotsky–“dude, that’s -irregardless-. pet peeve.”
a–“hah, you just rotskied me, you bonehead.”
the act of condescendingly correcting someone else’s correct grammar and/or spelling, thus making yourself look like an -sshat.
will britney lose loose custody of her boys today?

sorry. pet peeve.

the corrector has just committed a rotsky!
to fail in an egregious and smug way. to -ssert one’s sense of superiority when the action of -ssertion demonstrates one’s inferiority.
if bill gets his hands on the brochure redesign, he’ll rotsky it all up, then we’ll all be screwed.
the act of ‘correcting’ the spelling of a word that was spelled correctly into an incorrect spelling; a word or phrase with such a ‘correction’.
he pulled a rotsky when he commented “submitter: will britney lose loose custody of her boys today?

sorry. pet peeve.”
rotsky (rot – skee) n., v., adj. a completely avoidable fail meme: the act of incorrectly correcting a person that has committed a h-m-nym error.

“submitter: will britney lose custody of her boys today?”

that should be “will britney loose custody of her boys today?”
sorry. pet peeve.

this has been a rotsky.