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Pride... apparently nonexistent?

It used to REALLY bug me to see so many gramatical errors in the forums and sale ads.
As I've gotten older, though, I find myself not caring quite so much. There are too many other things in this world that demand more of my attention than being the grammar police. I guess the older I get, the more I realize what should demand more of my time...and my emotions. I will admit to even stooping so low as to not capitalize my I's when I am in a less formal setting. Heavens to Betsy, I have even started using internet-speak in chat rooms and between friends!
As a personal choice, though, I will always try to be grammatically correct when in more formal settings. I will not, however, pick on anyone else for their incorrect spellings or grammatical mistakes. Life is too short for that, IMHO!
 
Tiger Lilly said:
It used to REALLY bug me to see so many gramatical errors in the forums and sale ads.
As I've gotten older, though, I find myself not caring quite so much. There are too many other things in this world that demand more of my attention than being the grammar police. I guess the older I get, the more I realize what should demand more of my time...and my emotions. I will admit to even stooping so low as to not capitalize my I's when I am in a less formal setting. Heavens to Betsy, I have even started using internet-speak in chat rooms and between friends!
As a personal choice, though, I will always try to be grammatically correct when in more formal settings. I will not, however, pick on anyone else for their incorrect spellings or grammatical mistakes. Life is too short for that, IMHO!
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Don't you mean:

Life is too short for that, in my honest opinion. :raspberry
 
Tiger Lilly said:
I will admit to even stooping so low as to not capitalize my I's when I am in a less formal setting. Heavens to Betsy, I have even started using internet-speak in chat rooms and between friends!
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You hit the nail on the head there Miss Troi. Location, location, location.

I may drop an F bomb (or 20) when hanging out with friends, but I'm sure not going to drop an F bomb during dinner at my grandmas house. ;)

Location, location, location.
 
I had a highly technical career (aviation meteorologist) in the Air Force - we're the worst at acronyms. Even in the military where the acronym reigns supreme- we'd have to spell terms out to non-weather folks.

In keeping reptiles there's more than a few technical terms that would seem strange to outsiders too. I go out of my way to consider who I'm interacting with... when I speak or type. Even though I'm a college graduate who speaks 3 languages; I am dyslexic. Spell checker is my friend, but it doesn't catch all. An effort to be coherent is nice & I try to provide that as well.

Sadly, I have read many a post that cast doubt not on the grammar of the poster, but on their integrity. That is much worse IMHO
 
Tiger Lilly said:
I meant, in my HUMBLE opinion...:rofl:
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See, if you had typed it out, you wouldn't have been misunderstood. :raspberry

All joking aside, some of us folks do not know or have the desire to learn internet chat / abbreviations. And there are a lot of folks who will take the time to try to decipher posts such as these.

I agree Sammy, location is they key. :thumbsup:
 
This is an issue that sometimes bugs me as well. I can understand the occasional typo, especially while you're on some form of instant messenger or in a chatroom speaking with other people "live" in the moment. But when you are making a post (or a sales ad), I really do feel you should take the time to do a quick spell check before clicking "post" or "submit."

The whole "there/their/they're" thing and similar stuff...come on, that's stuff we learn in elementary school, folks. It's not like it's algebra or microbiology or anything.

[NOTE: this is all barring ESL cases, of course. I'm mainly talking about Americans who grew up in America.]

I will admit, when I see ads that say "Breaded dragons for sell," that really irks me.
 
For me there's a line that I draw between what I consider to be an acceptable level of simple mistakes and someone publicly demonstrating their low level of intelligence. It's difficult to define that line in words, sort of like the congressman said of pornography, I know it when I see it.
When it comes to an internet forum I don't really consider it one way or another. If a post is difficult to read, either from complete lack of punctuation, or endless text speak, I just skip it and think nothing more of it.

However, in business dealings I tend to take it more seriously. If someone contacts me inquiring about the purchase of an animal, but their inquiry is such that it crosses that mental line I have, I'll most likely delete the message without even responding.
I just tend to foresee potential problems with such a buyer. If their inquiry just makes me think this person should have at least tried to finish the sixth grade, then I just don't want to get involved with a monetary transaction with them.
Perhaps I'm a little too easily irritated with a sale, but there's always the occasional buyer, whether from their writing style or another reason, that causes me to think twice about selling to them. I tend to trust my instinct in such cases. I'm sure I've blown off a few potentially fine customers due to this, but I also think I've definitely avoided a much higher number of headaches.
 
On a casual forum setting, I either just ignore poorly worded posts, or frown at them as I try to slog through them. I agree, however, that all business dealings should be spell checked and grammar checked, especially if you only know the person through the internet. They can't see your face, they can't hear your voice, so even if you were the most put-together, grandfatherly, educated old gentleman in real life, if you type like a 13 year old, you come across as a 13 year old. This of course doesn't count for people with learning or reading disabilities, or ESL... there are several of each of those on the cornsnakes.com forum, and I always do my best to read through their posts and clarify what they meant if I need to. But mostly, people who choose to spell like rubbish do so because of laziness and disregard for how others view them. There is no excuse, if you speak the language from birth and have no disabilities, ESPECIALLY in the age of spell check and post editing, to have constant, glaring mistakes. A few typos and less-than-term-paper-quality grammar is acceptable... it's just how most people talk normally, but glaring, constant mistakes with no attempt to correct make the person making them look uneducated, unprofessional, and underage.
 
Clay Davenport said:
However, in business dealings I tend to take it more seriously. If someone contacts me inquiring about the purchase of an animal, but their inquiry is such that it crosses that mental line I have, I'll most likely delete the message without even responding.
I just tend to foresee potential problems with such a buyer. If their inquiry just makes me think this person should have at least tried to finish the sixth grade, then I just don't want to get involved with a monetary transaction with them.
Perhaps I'm a little too easily irritated with a sale, but there's always the occasional buyer, whether from their writing style or another reason, that causes me to think twice about selling to them. I tend to trust my instinct in such cases. I'm sure I've blown off a few potentially fine customers due to this, but I also think I've definitely avoided a much higher number of headaches.
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Amen to that 100%! Even as a buyer I will back out of an inquiry on an animal if the response I receive is full of misspellings, poor grammar, ghetto talk, or worse IM/Text speak. ALL drive me crazy and I know no one was taught to speak like that. Buying or selling I will not follow through when I am spoken to that way. If that makes me a 'bad gal' so be it. lol

Pepper said:
That's how I expect every job that requires more than a shovel and some brawn feels about txt-speek.
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Ha ha ha ha

Funny part to that is most laborers do not even speak like that.
 
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