DISCLAIMER: This thread is not intended to be a rant on people who can't spell, it's meant as a philosophical point of view as to why some people don't care how they write. I choose to not make this a thread about spelling, because corrections will be flying from the very first reply, throwing all the errors I've probably done, since I'm not perfect in english syntax.[footnote]I'm aware that people with disabilities do have problems with writing and reading. My intention is to point out that those without disabilites (except perhaps chronic laziness) have no reason to write as bad as they do.[/footnote]
So with that out of the way, let's talk grammar. We'll warm up with a nice song
My conundrum is simply why people can't be bothered to spell properly. I ran into an interesting case in a youtube-comment, a place known to be filled with shitty grammar, lack of spelling, and general incoherence.
I pointed out to him that without the severe syntax errors, lack of spell checking and checking if your sentence makes sense in the first place, it would probably be an interesting comment (and I genuinely thought so, from what I could read there was something there that caught my interest, but it was nigh impossible to understand). The response I got was that he couldn't be bothered to write properly because he wasn't at school. That kind of attitude is frightening, I believe that the internet shouldn't be a cesspool of poor writing just because it's not school.
The whole point of having a language with rules for spelling and grammar is to agree on how information is conveyed, it's not for laughs that we have a proper system for our language, or so that you can go butcher it totally while being online. I suppose most of this can be summarised with "think about what you're typing", but people value their own time so preciously, though I can't understand why. If you just take the time to form proper sentences, and make sure that it's not totally awful and impossible to read, by adding a few commas and punctuations here and there, it will be much easier to read, and you're a less annoying person.
Another example is this infamous sentence
While I laughed the first time I read this, it epitomises the whole problem. This sentence is not coherent, nor does it make any kind of sense.
Am I just overreacting, thinking that the problem is more serious than it really is? Or is there a real problem with people not giving two shits about what they type, as long as they type something? I know I used youtube as an example, and youtube is by far one of the worst places, because it's so open and uncensored, and on this forum it's no big deal, because we have moderators and rules that enforce proper spelling. However, on the greater scale that is the internet, this crops up all the time, people wanting to say something, but writing like they're smashing their face into the keyboard, assuming that they don't have to bother writing properly, people can just figure out for themselves what the meaning is, like they're the next fucking Shakespeare, open for interpretation.
Comments like that are often left open for interpretation too, since no-one can figure out what they're trying to say.
So with that out of the way, let's talk grammar. We'll warm up with a nice song
This song inspired this thread
I pointed out to him that without the severe syntax errors, lack of spell checking and checking if your sentence makes sense in the first place, it would probably be an interesting comment (and I genuinely thought so, from what I could read there was something there that caught my interest, but it was nigh impossible to understand). The response I got was that he couldn't be bothered to write properly because he wasn't at school. That kind of attitude is frightening, I believe that the internet shouldn't be a cesspool of poor writing just because it's not school.
The whole point of having a language with rules for spelling and grammar is to agree on how information is conveyed, it's not for laughs that we have a proper system for our language, or so that you can go butcher it totally while being online. I suppose most of this can be summarised with "think about what you're typing", but people value their own time so preciously, though I can't understand why. If you just take the time to form proper sentences, and make sure that it's not totally awful and impossible to read, by adding a few commas and punctuations here and there, it will be much easier to read, and you're a less annoying person.
Another example is this infamous sentence
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Am I just overreacting, thinking that the problem is more serious than it really is? Or is there a real problem with people not giving two shits about what they type, as long as they type something? I know I used youtube as an example, and youtube is by far one of the worst places, because it's so open and uncensored, and on this forum it's no big deal, because we have moderators and rules that enforce proper spelling. However, on the greater scale that is the internet, this crops up all the time, people wanting to say something, but writing like they're smashing their face into the keyboard, assuming that they don't have to bother writing properly, people can just figure out for themselves what the meaning is, like they're the next fucking Shakespeare, open for interpretation.
Comments like that are often left open for interpretation too, since no-one can figure out what they're trying to say.
