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Originally Posted by SaskaBushFire
What I posted is an extremity, but my point is that I don't think it really matters if someone uses perfect grammar. There are quite a few posters on this board who don't know what perfect grammar is, myself included. Trust me, you think you know but you don't. All I am saying is that if someone makes a post like "i think the oilers powerplay is struggling because there are not enough peple on that team who can propely qarterback it" Is that really a huge deal? A few spelling errors, a few grammatical errors, the overall point is there and everyone can comment.
Nobody is perfect and just remember when you start nit picking peoples posts it puts a big target on your own.
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That example isn't bad. A couple spelling mistakes, a missed comma isn't going to kill the idea. But using the incorrect versions of words, or the apostrophe in the wrong place changes the meaning of the word entirely. When you type "peple" it is easy to knwo what is meant. But "your" is possessive - "your house" , "your car" - and "you're" is "you are" - "you're tall", "you're wrong". When someone writes "Your right" are they talking about my right to post, or should they be saying "you are right"?
If I stop reading to figure out what is really meant within the context, the idea trying to be communicated can be lost.
You are trying to get your point across; why make that difficult for me to understand?
No one is expecting perfection (I would hate to have all my posts checked), but the common repetitive errors that make posts difficult to read really should be addressed.
It isn't to make the writer's life more difficult; it is to make the communication of ideas easier.