Poll: How much do you care about grammar?

[Sassafrass]

As long as it's readable in a normal forum post, I won't care. It's readable, I couldn't give a damn if someone used there instead of their.
However, if we're talking about reviews, I'll point out any small error I can find.

The following picture is very relevant to this topic, I feel. XD

 

[Epic Fail 1977]

as long as they use full stops (periods) and capitalisation i'm good also they should spell words well enough that I can read them but mostly it's the full stops I really really can't stand reading paragraphs without full stops it's annoying as hell

I hope you're being ironic.

I wouldn't call it irony, but yes I did it on purpose.

 

[papdefer]

It's ridiculous to judge a person from their grammar. English might not be their mother tongue. It's usually much harder to write in a language than talk in it or read it. I also know plenty of educated people that can't spell if their life depended on it. I am one of those

On another note, capslock really annoys me.

 

[dogenzakaminion]

While coherent spelling and grammar is important, I don't really mind if someone makes a mistake. If they are blatantly using AOL speak or "leet" speak or whatever it's called, it is very hard to take them seriously.

That being said, I HATE mistakes involving their/they're/there. Not a big deal really, but it bothers me so much!

 

[emeraldrafael]

If its something that should really be obvious, or if it makes the subject unreadable, then it bothers me.

And if someone has a bunch of unnecessary commas and periods and such to break it up.

 

[BoredDragon]

I swear my friends type and text in a way that is purposefully made to piss me off. Half the time I have to ask them what the hell they are saying because their grammar is so horrible that I can't even tell what they're trying to say.

 

[StellarViking]

I don't really care, unless the medium by which the improper grammar is presented is something formal or school-related. My senior year of high school, I was a teacher's assistant. I once graded a five-page essay in which the writer wrote sentences like "i dont think u shuld do stuff like that cuz its bad", and it was very difficult to grade it for content. When it comes to a setting where you should be using proper grammar and mechanics, I am beyond a Grammar Nazi, I'm a Grammar Eldritch Horror. There are a few things that irk me more than anything else, however, and whenever I see those I have thoughts that would make Lovecraft and Bosch shit their pants.

Furthermore, the whole "hi i new plz give gold" is kind of irritating, but only for the frequency I hear it. If they aren't native English speakers, that's a different thing.

The difference between British English and American English kind of throws me for a loop when I first see it, but I always catch it before I try to correct it. Again, with non-native English speakers, that's fine because learning a language with as many contradictory rules as English is difficult, especially when you already speak a different one, but when somebody born and raised here mutilates it, it bothers me.

 

[CWestfall]

I really do feel it's impossible to take somebody seriously when they have terrible grammar. I'm not the kind of guy who is going to go full-out grammar-Nazi, but wen u type liek this im not gonna read to carfuly.

 

[Laser Priest]

I wince at grammar mistakes and I am bothered by posts that utterly destroy any form of human speech, but you won't see me going around harassing people for grammatical errors.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

Just as long as I can read what the heck you're saying and you're not typing letters for words.

I also hate it when people capatalise the first letter of every word in their sentence.

 

[TheAceTheOne]

As long as I can understand what the person is trying to say I'm fine. Not everyone is english and this is a forum.

I second that viewpoint. If people make the occasional mistake (In text messages, I purposely leave out apostrophes, but type the rest up), it's alright with me.