People here shouldn't have to do the work of people that don't use the search function. It is basic internet knowledge that most sites have a search function. It takes all of a minute to find it on here. So with common knowledge people should just use the search function, to find a thread that poses a question they are thinking about and then post in it instead of making a copy that clutters up the forum.
Iron Mal said:
PeePantz said:
Grammar/spelling that poor almosts nullifies a post. It shows that the OP didn't take much thought in the thread and didn't feel the need to correct his mistakes, thus making the importance of his/her post lessen severely. Poor spelling can easily be corrected by simply checking after those red dots mark a misfire. Not only does this help correct the ignorance of the OP and help him state a stronger case, it helps everyone stay clear of bleeding eyes.
The most important part of a person's opinion should be exactly that, their opinion. Not the way it's presented, not any errors or spelling mistakes and definately not because you appear to have an irrational fear of poor grammar.
That's all fine and dandy in fairytale land, but that doesn't work in the real world.
First off, I'm taking into consideration that the OP is 19 or 20 years old, from his profile.
Because of that I'll looking at this from an adult prospective. If one doesn't have good communications skill, living in the real world will be quite a chore. Considering what I have been told by every single English professor that I had in college, if someone has a question they answered or has a point to make in an argument, people in the real world aren't going to take what that person says seriously if he or she can't communicate clearly with proper grammar and spelling.
If I had submitted something that was as badly written as what the OP wrote, my professors probably wouldn't have even graded it, they would have probably given me a zero or if they were feeling nice, they would have given me until the end of the day or the next day to fix it and turn it back in.
Even if you pull the whole it is just an internet post thing, my professors always stressed that even in personal conversations with random people or friends or family, proper grammar is still as important as it is in a professional setting. If people have a hard time reading what a person writes, they are going to have a hard time understanding the person and in most cases and rightly so, not care about what the person says since the person didn't care about communicating clearly.
Even if the OP's browser doesn't have a spell-checker, he could have at least opened his word processor and checked what he wrote. Any time I misspell a word and my browser doesn't know what I'm spelling, I either open Word and see what it says, or I pull up Google and let it decipher what I'm trying to spell. In the end, if by some impossible odds that fails, I don't just leave the word misspelled, I choose a different word that means the same or I rephrase what I was saying.
College made me appreciate using proper grammar and spelling. My professors and even I now would say that ideas like yours that only the opinion and/or idea of what is written is important are the reasons why every year new college prospects that enter their freshman year seem like they have had absolutely no teaching in proper writing.
Heck, ideas like yours almost brought about the destruction of proper English learning a few years ago. I remember hearing about some crazy idea that some grade school teachers wanted to put into effect. The plan/idea was called Whole English, basically what it was is that if a kid misspelled a word but it still sounded like the word they were trying to spell, it would be counted right.
That is utter bullshit, that would mean that if such a thing was in place when I was in first grade, when I had a brain lapse and spelled "of" as "uv", it would have been counted right and possibly from then on I would have been misspelling "of" as "uv". The OP's spelling of "thread" as "thred", would have been counted right as well.
We can't have such ignorance in our education system or even let it by in in our everyday lives. Because if we let what the OP writes slide as okay. Everybody eventually will start believing that they can write anyway they want and then all communication will break down.
Things like text speak are already seeping into the English language and corrupting people and hurting their communication and academic standing. I remember one of my English professors, she was practically banging her head against the front desk in the classroom when I came in. I asked her what the problem was and she said that practically half her freshman composition class was using text speak in a majority of their papers and they weren't doing it as a joke. The students literally thought it would be accepted in college, since the everyday texting world finds it acceptable. That thought just made me think less of the world, at least of the teachers those kids must of had in high school if they let that stuff get by.
So no, people here aren't in the wrong by criticizing the OP about his grammar and spelling. Such is needed to protect the integrity of proper communication.
