You ever feel like the VGChartz community is making you stupider?

[mjk45]

Dr.Grass said:

Jay520 said:
I do. When I first joined this site, I would mentally acknoledge all the grammatical mistakes made by the users of the site. I used to stop and examine a post whenever someone mispelled a word, or formed an incohesive sentence, or even when someone neglected to start their sentence with a capital letter. However, as I became used to the site, I realised that these errors were very abundant, due to posters being natural to another language, ignorance, or just plain laziness; and so I came to the conlusion that I would be wasting my energy trying to point out each and every error a person made.

So, I eventually stopped my routine of finding errors and correcting them in my head. But now, just today actually, I saw a post with a huge amount of errors and I had to mentally acknowledge them. One of the mistakes was the spelling of the word 'article' as 'artical'. I looked at the word for 10 minutes, I knew it was spelled incorrectly, I knew it was a very simple word, but I couldn't think of the correct spelling without the aid of a dictionary.

With this swarm of confusion caused by such a simple word, I began to question myself, "After so many years of ignoring all the errors people made, have I myself become stupider in the process? How many others words can I not spell? Was this the 1st simple error that I couldn't fix...or was it the 100th? Has the VGChartz community tainted my beautiful brain with their broken English? Am I becoming... one of them?". Sadly, I think that may be true.

Thanks, VGChartz. Thanks for dumbing me up.

You (originally) had the following spelling mistakes: "acknoledge, conclusion". Who knows which other ones you have edited out.

Not to mention that,

"... formed an incohesive sentence..."

Should be incoherent.

"due to posters being natural to another language"

'Natural' to another language is not correct.

"due to posters being natural to another language, ignorance, or just plain laziness"

Another mistake. Should be ignorant and lazy.

 If you didn't remember it should be be 'article' then that is also pretty poor from your side. Also, seems like you're trying pretty hard to write well-constructed sentances in that post, but you end up only managing to overcook most of them.

So my conclusion is that your "beautiful brain" is perhaps not as wondrous as you think. You asked for it.

 

OT: Most forum based internet surfing rewires the brain in a non-desirable way. More important than spelling and grammar mistakes (which really isn't a big deal at all), is that most people don't have the ability to build a logic structure in the posts they make at all - worst is when a whole thread starts off without a some proper reasoning (like the "One problem with Uncharted 3" thread recently).

In any case, what do you expect? Most people are pretty dumb/uneducated. Not to mention that this is an anonymous videogame forum with a lot of teenagers.

I was pretty amazed by the "What's your IQ" thread recently. The scores posted by the users were just way too high. Those internet tests are worthless.

It helps not to make simple mistakes when critiquing some one , like spelling sentences as  sentances , good grammar and spelling while admirable pretty quickly fall prey to haste and not all of us ,  have time to proof read our work especially while posting on a forum ,also a lot of intelligent people are just standard or substandard at reading and comprehension , I know I am.