do you judge people by their grammar?

[Party Poison]

I don't judge people, but it can be irritating when you see a user post a mess of mashed words that forms a barely comprehend-able sentence if you get what I mean.

 

[Elijo]

If the user's grammar, spelling or puncuation is bad to the point to where I am unable to comprehend yet alone read it, I get extremely annoyed and I will in most cases tell the person to correct themselves. We are not expected to be perfect in our typing ability, but I expect that they at least try to write correctly. I don't mind if I see some errors, but sometimes, I will nitpick on it.

 

[xxLollyxx]

Not really...just when the sentence doesn't make sense, or when PEOPLE TYPE IN CAPS LIKE THIS. I'm like...why? Why would you capitalize everything? I totally feel like I'm being yelled at

 

[The Hidden Owl]

I am ok with sometimes not using capitals at the beginning of a sentence, but I hate word misusage.

 

[Lepidoptera]

That's only if you straight up say, "Your grammar sucks, your English teacher should be fired."
Most of the time people keep it in their heads.

Those are the people I'm talking about. Not people who keep it to themselves. I've just had a lot of bad experiences with the subject. Should have put that in my post.

 

[Hana-Nezumi]

Yeah, I do judge people by their grammar. But not necessarily in a negative way. By paying attention to the types of grammatical mistakes a person makes, I can usually scope out whether it was a simple typo, they are a kid, English is not their first language, or they just don't care about even making an attempt at making their typing readable. Only the last one is inherently a bad thing to me.

 

[CR33P]

Yeah, I do judge people by their grammar. But not necessarily in a negative way. By paying attention to the types of grammatical mistakes a person makes, I can usually scope out whether it was a simple typo, they are a kid, English is not their first language, or they just don't care about even making an attempt at making their typing readable. Only the last one is inherently a bad thing to me.

woop perfectly described

 

[Mandarama]

I'm an English professor and all of my courses are writing-intensive. I can attest that in the 20 years I've been teaching, I've seen the quality of my students' grammar and style decline sharply. The casual ease of the Internet, texting, and email can be great--as long as you also learn a more formal version of English for times when it matters. And it will matter. Here's how my husband characterizes the argument that language exists only to communicate, so any form of it should be fine: "Any shirt will cover your chest, too, but if it's a torn t-shirt and you're in my office, I'm not going to hire you."

I can almost always tell if someone is a non-native speaker, and there's no shame in the difficulties people from other cultures encounter in learning English. I'd never judge people for mistakes under those circumstances. But I will say that in the past two years, my best two writers have been Korean. Both had learned English so diligently that they were far superior to all of their American classmates. One was awarded our university's freshman writing prize.

TL; DR: Learn slang, netspeak, informal conversation, AND correct writing. Language offers us all of the above superpowers. (I myself love profanity.) Take advice from old lady or not, as you please.

 

[cherche]

But I will say that in the past two years, my best two writers have been Korean. Both had learned English so diligently that they were far superior to all of their American classmates. One was awarded our university's freshman writing prize.

that's actually a really common thing among esl speakers, at least the ones who learn english through school rather than solely through immersion.

 

[PopteenPrincess]

nope
because you never know if english was their first language and i know myself that people pointing it out makes me feel uncomfortable
i mean there's people who obviously do purposefully just don't care and sometimes it's painful and embarrassing for me to read but i don't exactly judge them

 

[raimon]

no because grammar/language is always changing anyways and my grammar is far from perfect

 

[Mariah]

no because grammar/language is always changing anyways and my grammar is far from perfect

Grammar is always changing?

 

[cherche]

Grammar is always changing?

grammar doesn't change as rapidly as language so it's less noticeable, but it does and has evolved over time. an example would be the phrase ''going to'' being used when it's not in reference to location, which is commonplace now when it wasn't 100 years ago.

 

[bloomwaker]

Hm...It varies. I don't see the point in not capitalizing since it's so easy to do on a computer in the first place, but to each their own. It's something I've gotten used to.

My real problem is with people that say "kewl" instead of "cool", "chu" instead of "you", "meh" instead of "me". Stuff like that. It's so unnecessary and it comes across as immature.

 

[heirabbit]

No, but consistent spelling errors annoy me. It's quite easy to fix an error especially when a red line is usually indicated below the misspelled word.

 

[PillBug]

I Hate It When People Type With Caps On Each Word. Do they think everything they say is so important that it's a title?

 

[chillv]

*cough*tsundere*cough*

I only have a problem with pure illiteracy and no effort at all when it comes to correct grammar. For example, people who type using no punctuation.

 

[sn0wxyuki]

I Hate It When People Type With Caps On Each Word. Do they think everything they say is so important that it's a title?

Not @5 w0r5t @s th053 wh0 typ3 l1k3 th15.

 

[kasane]

I don't really mind, but what annoys me is if they spell a word wrong. If I do, I'd just correct it with *, followed with the correct spelling.
With regards to the use of CAPITAL LETTERS, in a title (such as a thread title, book title), I don't mind the capital letters, but there is No Need To Go And Capitalize The Beginning Of Each Word...

Don't know why, but I tend to think that people writing 'u' instead of 'you', of 'y' instead of 'why' are just plain sloppy or young :/

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Not @5 w0r5t @s th053 wh0 typ3 l1k3 th15.

?uʍop ǝpᴉsdn ʇnoqɐ ʍoH

 

[bloomwaker]

I will say, I am one of those people that can't stand when a person uses the wrong "your", "you're", "to", "too", "two", et cetera...

Or when a person says "literally" when they're exaggerating. They are contradicting what the word actually means. Literally means actually, not metaphorically. Ahh!!