Why do so many people care about spelling and grammar?

[skinem]

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(Translation: Why do people care so much about spelling and grammar? So that we can communicate and not freaking guess what you mean. I hope this helped answer your question.)

[iColt1]

hahaha i would never try and guess on that!! i mean if i put
i werez a shirt to szcool and dey likd it. I read books that have this and it's like WHAT?

[Charles22]

You seriously want the rest of the world to think that America is full of idiots who haven't graduated from high school? Suck it up and write like a real American and stop embarrassing us with your lousy English. It doesn't make you cool, it makes you an idiot.

[iColt1]

Originally Posted by Charles22

You seriously want the rest of the world to think that America is full of idiots who haven't graduated from high school? Suck it up and write like a real American and stop embarrassing us with your lousy English. It doesn't make you cool, it makes you an idiot.

then tell that to people who murder others, rape others, use drugs...etc
when we have world peace then tell me that again. I do use proper english, thank you.

[mcb1025]

Originally Posted by iColt1

then tell that to people who murder others, rape others, use drugs...etc
when we have world peace then tell me that again. I do use proper english, thank you.

I think more and more people in this country are putting less value on learning the art of communication, because a growing percentage of people like to consider the subjects in this area as "soft" and of little financial value. I think eventually we'll turn into a society of engineers, nurses, electricians, computer technicians, etc., who simply cannot write or speak worth a d@mn.

So, maybe iColt is right to criticize. To h3ll with English and the likes. Only focus on learning a technical skill so that you can increase your earning potential (it's all about money, after all). I'm karious wut kind of tole thes wil tacke on sosiuty wen weer al riting lyke thes.

[TabulaRasa]

Originally Posted by flik_becky

Maybe it is because the schools have put so much emphasis on having no shame for laziness.

I sat in the teacher's lounge at lunch today and listened to a bunch of educators (all in their mid to late twenties, so fairly newly minted) speak incredibly derisively about people with broad vocabularies, and how it offends their sensibilities if somebody uses words like "cumbersome" or "surreptitious," rather than "less confusing" words of "fewer syllables."

Not only was there no shame about intellectual laziness, having a limited vocabulary was being more or less billed as a badge of honor. And these are people tasked with teaching.

[jps-teacher]

Originally Posted by TabulaRasa

I sat in the teacher's lounge at lunch today and listened to a bunch of educators (all in their mid to late twenties, so fairly newly minted) speak incredibly derisively about people with broad vocabularies, and how it offends their sensibilities if somebody uses words like "cumbersome" or "surreptitious," rather than "less confusing" words of "fewer syllables."

Not only was there no shame about intellectual laziness, having a limited vocabulary was being more or less billed as a badge of honor. And these are people tasked with teaching.

Yup. In a nutshell.

[AQHA]

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