Do bad grammar and/or nonsensical sentences irritate you?

[Floogeldy]

Guilty. :thumbsup:

[Broken_Hero]

1. wut r u

talcan abaout? mye grammyre iss fantastik.....












:hide:

[Floogeldy]

10. Bwaha!

[Deja Q]

2. Easily. You should read some of the official documents at work.

:banghead:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

3. I'm absolutely obsessed with correct grammar and spelling.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

4. Hell, I correct grammar in quizzes/tests/whatever.

Write it right in there. Drives me batshit.

[Haole Girl]

5. Not as much as persnicketiness does. n/t

[Guava Jelly]

6. Not me.

I would have to be irritated with myself

[Guava Jelly]

7. should that be "does bad grammar"?

hell i don't know

[Floogeldy]

8. No. Bad grammar and nonsensical sentences are two things.

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It is called "plural."

[reyd reid reed]

9. Yup

Unless, of course, I'm the one using them.

Of course, when I do it, it's perfectly hunky-dory because I'm usually doing it to annoy someone so...

Mission accomplished.

Not that I'd EVER deliberately try and annoy you, dearest.

O8)

[hyphenate]

11. I'm afraid so

But I was an English major, and am a writer, and an editor, and so those kinds of things will always bug me. I try very hard not to be a complete grammar nazi, but sometimes it's difficult.

[Floogeldy]

12. I read you, loud and clear.

I try not to be a nazi, myself. But I can't help cringing!

[Guava Jelly]

13. As one who is grammar challenged

I apologize for my terrible grammar.

[Ptah]

14. Like this one?

I can hijack your thread, turn it into sexual innuendo . . . . . . and get it locked in three posts.

:shrug:

[Floogeldy]

16. I see no errors there. What is your point, Ptah?

[Ptah]

20. It seems to be a nonsensical sentence.

.

[reyd reid reed]

18. I tried that last night

but it didn't work.

[Ptah]

21. It just seems nonsensical to me.

But what of that.

[reyd reid reed]

23. OOOOOOOH!!!

How'd you do that???

Teach me, O Great and Wondrous One...

[Ptah]

24. Here are eight spanks, surrounding a target:

Copy at will.

[reyd reid reed]

29. LOLOL!!!!

That's too funny.

I love it!!!

:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

[Guava Jelly]

15. Ok i just have to say it.!!

And i mean this in the nicest way.
Even those who type,write, and spell like shit still have important voices and things to say.
Being a stickler for details is an admirable quality.
I wish My spelling and Grammar was as good as it used to be but it's not!
And I don't believe I need to brush up on my literary skills just so I am not ridiculed by people who have no idea who i really am.

So please try to over look a few grammar crimes.
Read the intent of the message..not the delivery
thank you

[ForrestGump]

17. Yes and no.

Yes when it's in formal writing...and especially so when in a scientific journal and the same picky f***ers who correct the hell out of my manuscript let the silverbacks of the field publish whatever the hell they want, written whatever-the-f*** way...but I digress.

No in casual communication, and certainly in speech. Sure, some things can be like fingernails on a blackboard even then, but colloquial speech and writing needs to be loose. I write on DU pretty much as I speak.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

19. Yes, especially when I see it in Internet postings by

people who claim to be college students.

(I saw just such an illiterate example the other night on a website that rated apartment buildings. One comment about a complex near the University of Minnesota was apparently written by a student, because he compared the building unfavorably to the dorm he had lived in the previous year. He had evidently never heard of capital letters, punctuation, standard spelling, or the correct tenses of verbs. In other words, he wrote like the typical contributor to the Hate Mailbag. I had to wonder why he hadn't flunked out on the basis of his writing alone.)

[Floogeldy]

22. I have noticed that trend, too.

[Skittles]

34. are you kidding?

everyone I work with is college-educated and their writing skills are just awful

[Book Lover]

25. More than you can know

But I try to get over myself...

[leeroysphitz]

26. They're more gooder than other stuff thats stupider!

Ya know???

[FILAM23]

27. Not at all

But people who correct others grammer irk the hell out of me.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

28. Yes they, does muchly.

Annoying as h e double toothpicks.

[reyd reid reed]

30. Nono nono nono

That's the wrong one...it's h e double HOCKEY STICKS. I m'member 'cause I learnt it in the forth grade at lunch one day when someone betted me there desert that I wouldn't say it in front of the gym teacher.

:hide:

They had paddles at that school

:spank:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

31. I learned it from Radar O'Reilley

So there. Neener neener.

[reyd reid reed]

33. Well there ya go

He was from Iowa.

I learned it in Alabama. From a boy named Lynn Singleton.

*sigh*

:loveya:

[Skittles]

32. yes

but I try not to be insensitive about it - I sometimes cringe when DUers are obnoxious in correcting the grammar and spelling of their fellow DUers...there are ways of educating people without alienating them

[Heidi]

35. Do you mean "poor" grammar?

:evilgrin:

[RebelOne]

36. Bad grammar irritates the hell out of me.

Mainly, because I am a copy editor.

[last_texas_dem]

37. In some instances

If it's an official publication, advertisement, etc. of/for an organization or business, I'm going to hold that against them. It makes me think they consider proofreading so unimportant that they don't even take the time to do it, or that no one from the place knows the errors are errors- which is pretty sad.

But in casual conversation, it usually doesn't bother me. Someone can sound quite ignorant and know a good deal more of the particular subject they're discussing, than someone who can speak "intelligently." And in message board postings, errors usually don't bother me, except for a select few, including using apostrophes to make words plural, and some spelling errors. However, I am (usually) a polite person and am not going to correct someone over something like that. (Maybe if something really bothered me, I'd do it in as polite a way as possible, but usually somebody will have already jumped on them about it!)

As for me, I like to think I have pretty good grammar, but I know I write substantially better than I speak. And even then, while I have a particular talent for spelling (now, watch me make some stupid typo and make that claim look ridiculous) I am guilty of some other errors, such as overusing commas. (My philosophy is that it's better to overuse than underuse, but I know even that will bother those who know better.) Also, I will probably die before I fully understand the intricacies of using "affect" vs. "effect"! But I'm going to leave people alone about the way they speak; after all, I use "y'all", say "humid" like "yew-mid", and "poem" like "poym", so I'd have plenty of things that they could zing me with if I went about correcting their speech!

[Dervill Crow]

38. Not on the internets.

I proofread and mess around with words all day at work, so when I'm on my own time I want to just relax. The older I get, the less pedantic I am.

[datasuspect]

39. in published books, yes

in unedited, off the cuff internet stuff, no.

[crim son]

40. Only when other people write them.

I drop pronouns, dangle participles and misuse commonly understood words all the time. For effect, you understand :D

[jmm]

41. hi how r u, was up

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