Oiluj Posted December 18, 2011 Share #25 Posted December 18, 2011 While agree with everything said above, let's take a measure or reality. I make certain my business communications are clear, concise and to the point, with good grammer and no spelling errors. That takes time and effort, especially for an engineer who never spent much focus on "English". (Not to mention my poor typing skills).My internet posts are casual communications, so I usually don't spend a lot of effort making them "perfect". It's more like I'm conversing with friends, who hopefully will over-look my errors... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomoHawk Posted December 18, 2011 Share #26 Posted December 18, 2011 It's easy to overlook the usual typos, like when you type 'hte' instead of 'the' or 'you' instead of 'your' or an occasional dropped punctuation character, but some people honestly need to enroll in an English course, or just make the effort to avoid typing in total Internet jargon or all lower-case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteunseen Posted December 18, 2011 Share #27 Posted December 18, 2011 Casual communications indeed, amongst peers of a group with similar interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5thhorsemann Posted December 18, 2011 Share #28 Posted December 18, 2011 It's not that anyone is grading your posts, but some people get on these forums and just post totally incomprehensible gibberish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72 OJ Posted December 18, 2011 Share #29 Posted December 18, 2011 yes//casual none academic that is the best rational on this issue.................................................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomoHawk Posted December 18, 2011 Share #30 Posted December 18, 2011 I'm now wondering... Which website, Z related, or otherwise, do you think has the most people that use ll the lower-case jibberish and Net-jargon we're all referring to? Zcar.com comes to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oiluj Posted December 19, 2011 Share #31 Posted December 19, 2011 Arrggg! Just noticed a typo in my post above. Figures... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sblake01 Posted December 19, 2011 Share #32 Posted December 19, 2011 (edited) I saw your typo but, as Tomo stated, typos aren't really the issue that is loosely being discussed in this thread. There are, however, quite a few examples in this thread that are. Only a few seem to take it seriously. I'm not really sure that some really get it. Edited December 19, 2011 by sblake01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psdenno Posted December 19, 2011 Share #33 Posted December 19, 2011 My internet posts are casual communications, so I usually don't spend a lot of effort making them "perfect". It's more like I'm conversing with friends, who hopefully will over-look my errors... I totally agree and appreciate that just about everyone on this forum communicates in standard English with a minimum of texting shortcuts. A word spelled incorrectly from time to time is tolerable - the message "spell check" feature helps. However, dangling participles are a whole other ball game Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oiluj Posted December 19, 2011 Share #34 Posted December 19, 2011 Funny. My personal view is who cares, long as the message is understood. I'm even OK with common shortcuts such as FWIW, but then I'm a silicon valley engineer.Paticiples, antecedants? Heck, it's a miracle I can spell five letter words!I was in Ireland last week on business. They were speaking english, but with the accent I had a difficult time following some of the conversation.Language evolves. Go back 200+ years and most of us would have some difficulty conversing with the average english speaking person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sblake01 Posted December 19, 2011 Share #35 Posted December 19, 2011 (edited) Language evolves? Okay, but are we really talking about evolution? Unpunctuated, uncapitalized, run on sentences, modern internet hieroglyphics, urban slang, etc. Sounds more like deterioration than evolution. Edited December 19, 2011 by sblake01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oiluj Posted December 20, 2011 Share #36 Posted December 20, 2011 Language evolves? Sounds more like deterioration than evolution. Personally agree with you. However, I wouldn't be surprised if Shakespeare said exactly the same thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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