Grammar?

[Foie]

it's not funny when they spell grammar correctly in these topics

I know! I love it when somebody says something like, "Your grammer sucks." And then everbody can procede to ridicule and mock them. That's good stuff right there.

And by the way, I like to live by two rules in forums.

1) Use perfect grammar.
2) Make fun of those who don't.

 

[MADKATZ99]

I vowted for gooder grammer. A lot of people out their need too learen betterer grammerz.

 

[jimmy j]

Only when people misuse "Their" and "There" or "Its" and "It's"

That sort of stuff

 

[cubin']

I'm not fussed as long as I can understand the person easily. If it's missing a apostrophe or mixing up there/their etc. I couldn't care less.


That being said I suck at grammar but have a surprisingly high IQ. Spelling and grammar in no way denote intelligence.


Ask yourself, if you care about peoples spelling and grammar on the internet...are you a douche? perhaps


edit:typo...wouldn't want any of those in a thread like this

 

[SkH]

Heh... I Do!

 

[FAST6191]

I suppose if I had grown up on IRC/MSN/AIM/whatever or had/have a mobile phone it may be different but I have a far harder time trying to decipher a mess of letters, numbers, "acronyms" and SMS terms than any language I have ever learnt. There was also a study done a while back where the first and last letter was found to be all that was really needed for some people, it would seem however I am not one of those people which I would speculate is half my problem.

I spend a fair bit of time reading foreign languages sites as well, granted I may not be brilliant at the various languages contained within but text/leet/donkey speak "native" to said language often throws me completely. I can not speak for others here but I am fairly certain the same applies in reverse and looking at all the various flags sported around here....

Oh yeah, strictly speaking the contractions (don't, can't, you're.....) should be a thing of speech and quotations thereof. They should not appear in written text.

As for me pulling someone up I tend to either ignore something with atrocious use of language or decipher it and then rewrite it in ye olde/very formal English. Personally I try and write on forums like I would write an SMS message, which is like I would write an email, which is like I would write a formal letter.
I would like to believe I pull off a level of readability most of the time but my tendency to use obscure words when I can not remember the spelling of the more common synonym probably kills any chances of that.

Oh yeah: bar some stuff like sign/sing house/hose unite/untie... the widespread use of browser spelling plugins has made life much nicer.

Next debate: imperial units and the missing "u".

edit: a guide to punctuation:
http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/depart...ion/node00.html

 

[cubin']

The only thing I can't stand is non-stop l337 talk and sms style language. This kind of thing is annoying and simple mistakes are much more tolerable

 

[Smuff]

I think good grammar and spelling should be important to people, even on the "interwebs". Not all of us can speak or decipher this "chav"-speak, nor do we wish to. Those among us with a decent level of education should be proud of our achievements and should mock all of the cretins below us who can neither spell nor form a sentence correctly.

 

[dice]

I do care to a certain extent, if someone's being serious tand they're not using the correct grammer it makes them look less credible... but generally the odd mistake or two in a general topic is fine.

 

[mthrnite]

I don't like sms shorthand. Hell, I don't like cellphones in the first place. If you've got a full keyboard though, use it.
Bad grammar (ha, I typed grammer and spellcheck tagged me) doesn't bother me as much as poor sentence structure and no capitalization.
Occasionally I like to type in my southern dialect, which some mistake for Ebonics. Ain't no thang, y'all...
.. I reckon.

Interesting what Fast said about contraction usage... I did not know that!

 

[Linkiboy]

lolu tk him 2da bar|??

^saw it on 4chan once, still cant decipher it. I thought it was "you take him to the bar" but apparently it has to do with teamkilling.

 

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