- confusing style with grammar and thus "correcting grammar" that was already correct
- correcting an appropriately employed colloquialism
- insisting that the Oxford comma is wrong and should not be used*, **.
Example: correcting the spelling of "offences" to "offenses" in an article written by someone in England about a new policy in the UK, effectively correcting the British spelling with the American spelling, while feigning incredulity on other claims made by the same author.
* The Oxford Comma is the application of grammatical parallelism to comma usage.
** OK, maybe I am a grammar nerd.
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