Okay I am gonna get very real with you for a minute:

Ever since I got cancer I feel like I am going crazy/getting dementia because I constantly replace words I mean to use with similar but not quite the same words. Sometimes I literally know a word but when I am actually speaking out loud cannot force that word out of my mouth, I am just stuck, blank, unable to speak suddenly.

Your inner pedant doesn’t know what’s going on in other people’s lives so maybe take a minute and think “maybe I don’t need to remind this person they are going crazy” and spend three paragraphs chiding them for something they cannot fucking control and depresses them deeply. Just step back a moment and realize your personal experience of being able to speak clearly is not everyone’s personal experience and that maybe being outwardly pushy about it isn’t helpful to them at all.

You don’t know what is going on in other people’s lives or why they speak the way they do. They could be a non-native speaker, or they could be having serious issues with their brain, like me.

So seriously take your pedantry and shove it up your ass. You still could understand what I meant. You didn’t have to shove my problems in my face like a dick. I changed it, for what it’s worth, because you’re correct, but I often make those changes hours later after I’ve noticed them, you just happened to catch one I made before I went to sleep. I don’t need dicks being pedantic dicks about it.