Toll the Requiem Bell, folks. Who here thinks that the Internet has caused a lack of grammar and spelling, and who thinks it may have extended over to the bright, happy world we live in? I direct my attention to several examples;
"To" instead of "Too" "Wut" instead of "What" Lack of capitals at the start of sentences, or where appropriate.
He said this thread is smart, omg, so cool. At least that is how i interpreted it. Not sure about the middle part.
I usually am pretty careful about my grammar, although I have a tendency not to capitalize my i's. I will occasionally use stuff like brb when i am in a hurry, but the rest of the time i just spell it out.
The internet. Stopping NEWSPEAK since its creation. Now to get it to stop harvesting personal information
And grammer isnt dead on the internet. It allows for rapid transit/viewing of books, manuscripts, and articles. All these things are usually heavily proof-read and are all quite popularly used.
You're being a grammar Nazi, and you have just proven so. According to spellcheck, "no one" is correct, but a grammar Nazi is someone who points out/corrects spelling and grammar errors, and that's what you did.
Here is the part where I point out the second paragraph. Perhaps, before jumping to the attack, you might read the full post?
I've grown accustomed to its presence on the internet. As long as the words are coherent enough to be understood, it's fine to me. I doubt the internet is the cause for an inability to spell or adhere to proper grammar conventions though. It just exposes us to more of these kinds of people.
I don't care how people write as long as I can understand them.
Eventually they have to get a job, and proper grammar will show its true face then.
This. Well, not a job for me, but a few years ago I had a computer class and we had to write properly for an entire year, and it stuck with me. Before that I already used proper grammar on paper, but I never applied that to the internet.
to me, being a gramer notzi is the most annoying thing in the world. on facebook or twitter its OK, since it is a social site. but on a gaming website, (such as this), its not right. people like and use all types of abbreviation when trying to play a video game because they dont have time to go into a dictionary and check there every word. these are the abbreviations i use: lol brb cya wft i enjoy useing these for the purpose of saving time since dont have it.
*grammar *nazi *it's *those are social sites *their *using *I don't
Now I don't mind using abbrevs at all - it does give some time. I dun mind talkn gibberish for teh lulz either. That is one story - overusing that is another. People just don't care and don't think about what they're writing on the internet, sometimes to the point where it stops being understandable at all. It's like walking on the street, constantly swearing, spitting, drinking bad booze in the public and stinking like it. That - I do mind. So soz I ain't putin (p->P?) down mah grammazihammer
You can't blame this on the internet. I know a large number of adults who couldn't explain the difference of "to" and "too" or "their" and "there".
You can't blame the internet for this, maybe people just didn't pay attention in grammar school. And for things such as that, who really cares? It's not like it matters. You can still tell what the person was trying to say, because you read it the same way regardless, and a few letter difference is not going to make anything magically make more sense.
[quote]You're being a grammar Nazi, and you have just proven so. According to spellcheck, "no one" is correct, but a grammar Nazi is someone who points out/corrects spelling and grammar errors, and that's what you did.
Here is the part where I point out the second paragraph. Perhaps, before jumping to the attack, you might read the full post?[/quote]
How does
"To" instead of "Too" "Wut" instead of "What" Lack of capitals at the start of sentences, or where appropriate.
disprove my accusation?
Also, I have noticed the following tendency from you:
You will commit an offense or near offense, then I will accuse you of it, then you will deny it.
i don't care about capitalization, or punctuation much (with the exception of commas) but i do try to use correct spelling and the correct words (ex. there, their, to, too etc.) but it's not always the case that it ruins people's grammar completely like wut and whatnot, that's mostly ragers or annoying people who have an awful idea that they think is the best idea ever thought of
What's "Ta. Da." supposed to mean as a response? You can respond either on the thread or as a comment depending on whether you think it is worthy of discussion on the thread or not.
None of those are really abbreviations, but more like acronyms.
Ever since I could learn to write, I have always been kind of fanatical about using the proper grammar, and the correct words for the correct situations. I always find it kind of irritating when people fail to use proper grammar.
I don't know if it's right to blame the misuse of grammar entirely on the internet. A lot of people don't take their schooling seriously, and consider learning proper English a waste of time. The internet doesn't help the problem, due to it's lack of regard for proper English, but I don't believe it is the main cause of bad grammar.
