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As a nation, and as an individual, the ability to express oneself in writing is important. Many time inability to express oneself in writing contributes to poverty, hunger, and the "other things" you referenced.
Try qualifying for a meaningful job with a good salary without being able to communicate in some form of the written language.
Making grammatical errors does not amount to stupidity. Did you even read the rest of my post?
And yep, that's about the extent of usefulness for having perfect grammar. I admit, when you're applying for a job or writing a school paper, it does help, because people do judge you by it. But the only reason it helps in those situations is because people are judging your intelligence based on something that really has nothing to do with your intelligence. In other words, you have to play the game to beat it.
Again, though, if people realized that grammatical rules are arbitrary and learned, they would realize it has nothing to do with someone's innate cognitive ability.
Yup, many of us have our own pet peeves. That's why they call us grammar nazis...
For me, it's "alot." When did that become a word? Oh right, it didn't! In my eyes, it automatically drops the writer's IQ.
I also quite hate "supposably" and "irregardless" along with the apparent confusion of "their," "there," and "they're." It's not THAT difficult of a concept...
It's not that difficult to get over either. I admit, seeing people spell "ridiculous" with an "e" ("rediculous") and so on does bother me a bit, but then I realize how small it is in the grand scheme of things, and realize it doesn't matter. Why can't others see this too? We have bigger fish to fry than whether "ridiculous" is spelled with one or two I's.
As a nation, and as an individual, the ability to express oneself in writing is important. Many time inability to express oneself in writing contributes to poverty, hunger, and the "other things" you referenced.
Try qualifying for a meaningful job with a good salary without being able to communicate in some form of the written language.
The responce was to your original post,...not the edited version.
Making a grammatical error once is ignorance. Making it twice is stupidity.
Making a grammatical error once is the gap between language production and language competence at work. Making a grammatical error twice is possibly not having the education background to know better, or possibly not caring enough. It's not stupidity.
One of many things that bug me is the misuse of the "possessive pronoun"
YOUR.
As in: "Your a cool guy" or "Your an important person".
Do they not teach english in school anyomore?
Do people know what a contraction is?
It should say: "You're a cool guy" .....short form of "You are a cool guy". "Your" is only used to show ownership: "Is that your car?"
I actually saw a billboard ad with the "your" used the wrong way!! A BILLBOARD!! This means that either someone didn't catch it or they don't know any better! If it's the latter, that's scary! Because more than likely, that is a college educated person!
Where are we going???
Firefox or a browser spell checker...
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Why has our language become so dumb-downed? 
A BILLBOARD!! This means that either someone didn't catch it or they don't know any better! If it's the latter, that's scary! Because more than likely, that is a college educated person! 
