I really know it shouldn't annoy me but it does. I'm usually ok with smaller things but the bigger ones irritate the hell outta me.
Poll: What's your view about grammar on the internet?
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As long as i can read it, it doesn't bother me although it does sometimes annoy me when people speak lik dis omgz thts awesomez
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I'm not a native English speaker so naturally I can't be too critical when reading what people write in English. That said I do try my best to make as few errors as possible and I like to tell myself that I normally succeed in writing a passable prose.
Hell, I'm not even perfect in Danish, though I probably make fewer mistakes with syntax when writing natively. That's to be expected.
I don't see red if people make a typo or miss a capital at the start of a period. I do however see red when it'¨s obvious that a person has made no effort whatsoever and the text, as a result, is completely without proper punctuation, mixing of their/they're, you're/your and stuff like that.
I hold it as a hallmark of common courtesy to make an effort to make your text understandable. Besides, if you expect some poor sap to read your product you damn well have to take your time about it. If you don't respect me enough to write a decent text then don't expect me to respect your opinion or even your right to speak.
In other words I will totally disregard any ones opinion if it's obvious no care was put into stating it. How you say something is as important as how you say it.
You simply cannot expect to be respected if you don't want to make the effort, be it on the internet or in the work place.
And just as a note: I'm not talking about dyslexics of course. That's a different story entirely.
It's also important to realise, especially on an English speaking forum that a lot of people are not native English speakers. I can forgive a lot more from a foreigner writing Danish than someone who grew up in Denmark.
Hell, I'm not even perfect in Danish, though I probably make fewer mistakes with syntax when writing natively. That's to be expected.
I don't see red if people make a typo or miss a capital at the start of a period. I do however see red when it'¨s obvious that a person has made no effort whatsoever and the text, as a result, is completely without proper punctuation, mixing of their/they're, you're/your and stuff like that.
I hold it as a hallmark of common courtesy to make an effort to make your text understandable. Besides, if you expect some poor sap to read your product you damn well have to take your time about it. If you don't respect me enough to write a decent text then don't expect me to respect your opinion or even your right to speak.
In other words I will totally disregard any ones opinion if it's obvious no care was put into stating it. How you say something is as important as how you say it.
You simply cannot expect to be respected if you don't want to make the effort, be it on the internet or in the work place.
And just as a note: I'm not talking about dyslexics of course. That's a different story entirely.
It's also important to realise, especially on an English speaking forum that a lot of people are not native English speakers. I can forgive a lot more from a foreigner writing Danish than someone who grew up in Denmark.
Typos are fine but misusing a word because your spell check said it was right implies you aren't very well educated.
It honestly bugs the hell out of me. I don't really jump down peoples' throats about it, but it does cause me to think that the person typing is under the age of 10. I don't take them seriously at all.
I do that too I thought I was alone.kawaiiamethist said:
OT: it severly bothers and half the time when my friends do short form i don't get the original message.
A comment on youtube, was saying that grammar and spelling is not important and i full fledge said it does matter and so many people were agreeing i feel so glad!
True, but generally the context of any post will be enough that even this aberration is understandable, which is ok by me. And if anyone is telling a story as dull as "last year I was on a farm all summer. Every day I had to help my uncle, Jack, off a horse" then it's probably only improved by having a missing comma.SikOseph said:
It's posts that have bad grammar, spelling, content and everything else that suck. The ones that are a proper shitmix.
Do not mind as long as I can understand it, people need to chill out and understand that not everybody speaks english as their first language.
Sadly, it seems as though good, logical writing is a lost art on the internet. I'm in my mid-to-late 20's, so I can't speak to it first-hand, but you'd think that specifically written communication (as in the conversational sense, not necessarily the term-paper one) would be a huge focus in schools around the world seeing as how that's how most of the young world communicates these days.Miss Kass said:
I'm an admitted Grammar Nazi, but I'm getting better.
I can't stand reading 1337speak, tho. I want to stab people who type that. Abbreviations, truncations, local slang, etc don't bother me, however.
I can't stand reading 1337speak, tho. I want to stab people who type that. Abbreviations, truncations, local slang, etc don't bother me, however.
This is actually rather close to my view of it, atm.Ironic Pirate said:
I think you are taking it a bit personally, I never said it was just non english speakers who had poor grammer, its likely that quite a few people who speak english have poor grammer as well.Archangel357 said:
I stand by my original statement though, its not an english exam, as long as it is reasonable then I do not mind.
It annoys me when people misuse to/too, their/there/theyre, your/you're, and things of that nature. Even if a comma's in the wrong place it irritates me. It trips up my inner voice. So... Yeah, I guess I'm a Grammar Nazi. Ho Hum.