What do you think of....

[Mexicouger]

What do you think of when you first goto a forum, and you see people who have bad grammar and talk like they are texting? Or you are browsing Facebook or Myspace and see the continuous incorrect grammar, punctuation, and non-capitalization?

This is completely out of curiosity.

[Feared]

What do you when you go somewhere on the internet, and there is constant bad grammar?

What?

[Mexicouger]

What do you when you go somewhere on the internet, and there is constant bad grammar?

What?

Woops . I wish I would have seen that earlier. My point being, People should make an attempt to spell properly. Most people on the internet want to make an abbreviation for everything, instead of trying to spell right, and follow the rules of english. I mean, We all slip up, as I did, But it is all about the attempt to try and make sense to people.

[blubswillrule]

I personally try to do my best at writing

unless I iz know teh persoohn, and I iz purposefooly writng liek thees.

but other than those times, I try to spell correctly, especially when you meet someone new, grammar can say a lot about people.

[Mexicouger]

grammar can say a lot about people.

My thoughts exactly.

[revelator]

im gonna force you all to learn danish

hehe would be a blast

on the serious side. its not my native language but atleast i try to be understandable maybe i forget correct punctuation at times (im not the youngest anymore and its been a while since i had english lessons).

my take on it, as long as its not littered with l33t speak im generally ok with some spelling mistakes. the point got through and that is what matters

[Tomaz]

I try to spell correctly, especially when you meet someone new, grammar can say a lot about people.

I disagree! Bad grammar usually only say 1 thing about people, that it's a 99% chance english isn't their native language.

[Mexicouger]

I try to spell correctly, especially when you meet someone new, grammar can say a lot about people.

I disagree! Bad grammar usually only say 1 thing about people, that it's a 99% chance English isn't their native language.

That is only true in some cases. You will eventually be told that English isn't their native language. Alot of people just speak l33t because they are too lazy to hit those extra keys. I used to speak Horribly, And It was just because I was too lazy to hit a few extra keys. People think as long as they get the message across, everything is good.

[Ranger366]

Well, i see the same in german thought.
when people are making many mistakes in spelling and such, i try to ignore it in chats (im not writing much in german over the internet) but i correct people in forums.

[r00k]

I treat the forums like a scratch piece of paper; I'm not writing a speech or documentation. I hate phone text-ing. People should e-mail me or call me, period. Playing ASCII ping-pong is how phone companies make extra revenue. A vocal conversation can take 5 minutes, where a text-based conversation can take about 20 minutes! L33T!

[mankrip]

Someone who doesn't care to write properly can't be taken seriously about development work, specially programming.

[Ranger366]

Someone who doesn't care to write properly can't be taken seriously about development work, specially programming.

in programming you dont have to work with full sentences, only on strings but they dont cause errors. and if you get an error its mostly one letter which can be fixed in 2 seconds.

[mankrip]

But finding that single mistake can actually take whole days, which requires a lot of attention from the coder.

And most programming languages uses some words from English, but they aren't English (for example, the word "banana" also belongs to multiple human languages).

Most of the time, you DO have to work with full sentences in programming, otherwise it will introduce bugs or won't even compile (except for things like implicit typecasting).

Someone who doesn't even try to pay attention to what they type in human language can hardly be trusted to pay this kind of attention to any writing work. Even when they start trying to type correctly, they often make a lot of mistakes due to their lack of practice. So, typing in human language can also work as a kind of training to strenghten our focus.

[Ranger366]

But finding that single mistake can actually take whole days, which requires a lot of attention from the coder.

this reminds me off some weeks ago, i just tested one QC code but it didnt worked, thats because in one if sentence a second '=' was missing. i was searching for the mistake in my whole progs project and changed things for nothing. but an grammar mistake? nope, not yet.
im doing some mistakes when typing fast (like iD's 'chagnelevel') but thats actually not my biggest problem.

[leileilol]

Often, forums full of bad grammar (even across admins) comes with bad judgment as well, which is why I facepalm, avoid and move on.