How does poor grammar and syntax effect the Yahoo! questions community?

Here are some questions I found when answering questions today:





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Why was other blogs was friend on my blog but my blog wasn't not????





How can i keep a certain blog "entry" private or allowed only a certain category of friends to read?





Why deleting an email in yahoo list, the next will be opened and i MUST to Mark as Unread every time?





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These are horridly constructed sentences. What do these types of sentences tell us about this online community and, the values people place on cogent writing?

How does poor grammar and syntax effect the Yahoo! questions community?
I hate it when people use incorrect grammar on purpose!
Reply:I find the poor grammar and poor spelling,and using instant messaging speak makes some of the questions almost unreadable, therefore, unanswerable !
Reply:It affects we very bdaly.
Reply:I used to be a grammar-freak like yourself. However, when I spoke with an English major friend of mine, he informed me that the rules of grammar and spelling go out the door in chat rooms and for the most part in forums, etc. He said I would have to deal with the fact that I am now a part of the Internet culture where grammar rules are allowed to be relaxed.





Also, people don't have time to proof-read each sentence they write. Then there is all the abbreviations people use (WTF?, ROTLF, etc.).





He also reminded me that the Internet is for everyone. It was not intended for English-only speakers, so we shouldn't be offended when someone misspells a word or word choice isn't perfect.





While there is a place for grammar, its application as a finely applied science will never be within the Yahoo! questions community.
Reply:Me are not to knowingly!
Reply:Here is an example I saw at Yahoo Answers and a response I mailed to my cousins.....





"pretty much yeah you can even get pregnant not have


sex it you both nude and playing around he the pre


sperm comes out it can find it way to you just like if


you were to sex with out so you might want to get a


pregnant test to see but you also have a chance that


you not i have a cousin that is married and been


trying to get pregnant but has not but it depends i


guess if you are ready i got pregnant with a condom


don't ask i don't know how but the doctor said that he


as not suppose to *** in side with comdon he suppose


to take it out be for he *** so in case it comes of in


side you and could had a hole so if i was u i would go


get check.."





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My email to my cousins with the above question shown....





"I laughed my *** off the hardest at the two periods at


the very end. Maybe with today's public school


English classes, they tell the students to just throw


in an extra period if you suspect that you may have


left one off earlier in your paragraph.





I hope I am around to check out the candidates for the


2040 election."





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Here is another one:





Q: "What are your opinon on the shoe's Converse?"





My answer was:





"There are important and interesting items in the English language you may want to study up on. They are:





1] verb tense, and





2] possession.





Let me give you some examples to duplicate your question.





a] "Are the zoo a place to see the stripe's Zebra?





b] "Why is Democrats always lack reasoning's sound?





c] "Do you knows this horsepower's car?





d] "I is going to eat this crust's pie.





There are some very nice English grammar handbooks, one of which is "The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers, Fourth Edition, by Maxine Hairston and John J. Ruskiewicz.





Try it--you will like it! (and you need it)


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America has become an ignorant society because the standards we one had have been thrown out. Our school systems are pumping out morons like a factory. Foreign students will have all the jobs in future generations and the USA will degrade to a third world slum.
Reply:I can't answer for the community as a whole, but personally, I tend to ignore these questions as I find them too tiring to decipher. If this behavior is more or less standard practice, we will see a Darwinian tendency for these questions to disappear. The logic is twofold. The individuals formulating these questions will be discouraged from asking further questions as nobody responds, or they will clean up their act and check their questions before submitting.
Reply:Yes, the above passage could certainly be improved but you should also consider that English is not the first language of many people. If you're going to poke fun of the grammar mistakes someone has made, you should really make sure that your own is up to par. (see difference between effect and affect)
Reply:it shows the age group of people who get on here, the ignorance, and the lack of "care"...for lack of a better word. in my personal opinion, if you can't spell/use spell check and write a decent UNDERSTANDABLE sentence then you don't need to be on public forums
Reply:Bad grammar is my worst pet peeve. It's bad enough people can't speak English correctly, why oh why can't they at least edit it once they see it on the screen in front of them? It irritates me so much that I sometimes won't even answer questions that bad. (If I can even decipher them.)
Reply:It's affect, btw.





It makes one feel sad that so many people don't care how stupid they sound when they write like that.
Reply:I think it paints a picture perfect portrait of stupidity amongst the users.














By the way, you're not supposed to put a comma after a conjunction like you did in this sentence:








"These are horridly constructed sentences. What do these types of sentences tell us about this online community and, the values people place on cogent writing?"








And it's AFFECT not EFFECT.

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