Forum Grammar Poll

[R650R]

Grammar - prounounciation gear-ham-far (silent f)

Noun - name of set of obscure rules adhered to buy fundamentalist English preachers. Important to follow in legal documents and letters to grandma.

Noun (2) - School in Auckland for rich pricks dropped off to school in SUV (see Remuera Tractor)

Verb - Generalisation used by Internet trolls when losing an argument. Eg instead of responding with facts the aggressor retorts with "ohh FFS LOL u twat you spelt recognitized wrong bitch"

Grammar - the last reort of the defeated ;p

[gjm]

For me, there is a significant difference between 'lazy' grammar and bad grammar. Similarly, a difference between misspelling something, and just 'can't be bovvered, can I?'

There's even a spell check in most browsers these days!

Less-than-perfect grammar or spelling is fine when the writer has something to say. You can be eloquent and not be grammatically perfect.

[Mike.Gayner]

Capitalisation is the difference between "Help your Uncle Jack off the horse" and "Help your Uncle jack off the horse".

[R650R]

No, it shouldn't. As BMWST said above, of course messages may be too hard to read and get ignored, but I'm talking about the in betweens. We know grammar impacts message communication, does it impact the value of the message communicated as well is what I wanted to start a discussion about.

One should always use less words when less will do.... Said by some great news editor I can't remember isle at mo

[Mike.Gayner]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovi7uQbtKas

[bogan]

One should always use less words when less will do.... Said by some great news editor I can't remember isle at mo

Yes but your 'less' will not do, as it conveys a different meaning. This is my whole point, your grammar skills have caused you to misinterpret the data, thus rendering your opinion on making a correction to it, worthless.

[scumdog]

i dont care if the grammar is 100 percent correct or not.But if i have to read and re read a post and still not make sense of it,i move on

Snap - me too!

[Woodman]

Would also be you're and they're. You didn't pass my english test, but we can lower the standards for gay old gore... Hell, 33% is probably scholarship material in those parts

Gore starts with a capital letter and has three r's.

[Murray]

Ask Hitcher!

[mashman]

Your question should be:

Does grammar impact message communication?

Much better as I can answer that... and whilst the grammar of the original question is fine, it makes no sense.

Thanks for clearing it up. No, perceived grammar abuse does not frighten me into a state of confusion.

[Mike.Gayner]

One should always use less words when less will do.... Said by some great news editor I can't remember isle at mo

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

― Mark Twain

Concise writing is harder than people think, and a rare skill.

[Moi]

Your question should be:

Does grammar impact message communication?

No, the original question is correct: affect = change

whereas impact is what happens when I drive my large car into the side of your pedal car and leave a dent because you failed to stop at the Stop sign...

So, your question should be: Does grammar affect message communication? Does grammar change message communication?

[Murray]

If you can now get a degree in texting does current day society care???

[neels]

My brain hurts too much to read incoherent drivel, life's too short.

If I can't understand it at first reading I move on, if the poster doesn't consider the message important enough to communicate it properly, I don't consider it important enough to decipher what the hell they actually meant.

[Hitcher]

If only it were as simple as grammar. What we are witnessing is much worse.

People either care about what they communicate in writing, and wish others to understand what they have written, or they don't. After a while one gets to know whose utterances are worth reading and largely ignores the rest. Life is too short to care about what the illiterate may have to say, unless they want to help their uncle jack off a horse.

English isn't that hard to master. If I can, anybody can.