oldschoolfool on 20 January 2010
| Sorcery said: If you're on a forum, chances are you're debating topics. As such, if you want to appeal to ethos, you should use correct grammar and punctuation. Other people will, in all likelihood, ignore your opinion if you don't bother using proper grammar. Why bother listening to someone's points if they don't care enough to present their argument in a clean, easy to read manner? I won't lie, if someone doesn't post using proper grammar, I ignore them. My gut reaction is to think that they are an idiot, even if they aren't. Even with this thread, I ignored everything in the original post other than the first sentence, because it screams stupid (again, even if it's not stupid). |
So your judging someone based on weather they use proper grammar. I'm not an English major,so using proper grammar is'nt important in my opinion. I'm typing on an internet forum;I'm not writing for a multi-billion dollar company,so I personally don't care about that. It's ironic that my thread about grammar,is the one with the most hits so far!!!!! lol
