Poor Grammar

[CCloud]

What always gets me is when people use "your" (the possessive form) instead of "you're" (you are, the contraction) when the contraction should be used instead. It happens a lot more than it should. It also aggravates me to no end, but there's nothing I can do about it.

Ophie: I agree; capitalization of all the beginning letters of words is very irritating. I don't get why they do it either.

Shawn out.

 

[Heavenly Spoon]

Not everyone has or can afford Microsoft Word though. I hear it's now standard with Windows, but I use a Mac. Of course, NeoOffice is an open-source program under the GNU license that has a similar spell and grammar check. Even then, the grammar check is just that--a grammar check. If you spell something wrong, and it happens to be a part of speech that works, it won't detect that. (There are a number of mistakes in that last post, by the way.)

I think this grammar and spelling rule is a flexible one though. It's not like someone is going to get punished if they forget a comma before a preposition between two independent clauses. (I hope this isn't the case...) The problem is that English has THE most complex rules of any language, so much so that people with doctorates in English might not know them all or at least not remember them all as they write things. In addition, English varies from region to region, and there are even disputed rules, such as the Oxford comma or the recent expansion of the preposition to the adposition. It would simply be too much to ask if everybody had perfect control of English and knows every rule up-to-date.

Have there ever been any encounters here with people who capitalize every word? I Don't Understand Why People Do This. It Looks Even More Disruptive Than No Capitalization At All.

I'd like to object, English does not have the most complex rules, at least in my honest opinion. Dutch is my 1st language, and learning English has never been a problem to me. I guess one could blame the media for this, but I don't think I'd be wrong in assuming that in a lot of other, not English-speaking countries English is also very prominent in the media.

And even so, I've been learning French for 7 years or so now, and I still can't form decent sentences, for every rule there's at least a dozen exceptions, each with their own exceptions...
There are also millions of ways to conjugate verbs, and a lot of prepositions which also change based on the object, person, and so on. It's frustrating

I guess English is only hard if your 1st language wasn't a Germanic language, but even so, I can not imagine English to be the most complex language. I also don't think we want to be grammar nazis, and at least learning the difference between "your" and "you're" or "to" and "too" can't be too difficult.

And getting a spelling checker can't be hard. I personally have MS word on my mac, and a dictionary and the google toolbar add-on for my Firefox, those are not that hard to get.

 

[.::n00bmuffin::.]

I don't mind spelling and grammar as much as people who can't even form sentences. I mean, if you can easily understand it, what's the problem?

you gave the most @$$hol3 answer to my qustion you could give by asking me to leave you are min modding (big no no) so have fun (poser)

Stuff like that should be against the rules imo, but misspelling a couple words, abbreviating something, or misusing "your" shouldn't.

 

[Bubba235]

I don't mind spelling and grammar as much as people who can't even form sentences. I mean, if you can easily understand it, what's the problem?

you gave the most @$$hol3 answer to my qustion you could give by asking me to leave you are min modding (big no no) so have fun (poser)

Stuff like that should be against the rules imo, but misspelling a couple words, abbreviating something, or misusing "your" shouldn't.

I completely agree with that. It even states in the rules that you can't cuss. Even though pikakid88 didn't come right out and say it, doesn't mean we all don't know what he said. I just say for the Mods to use the filtered word thingy to work out some of the bugs people make in their grammar. Like, when someone just says "u", filter it to "you".

 

[TofU]

Actually, this isn't a real problem at all. Thats just umbreondude, trying to suck up to the Mods. This thread is completely ridiculous, and makes no sense whatsoever. Let people type how they please. If it gets out of hand, which its not, then its something to worry about. But for right now, this thread is umbreondude sucking up and crying out for attention. Nothing more, nothing less...

 

[Gale]

In addition, I think there are bigger problems than someone using "were" instead of "we're" on this forum, like the recent advertising in the miscellanious discussion or flaming in general. Seriously, let's rid the forums of the other trash before we deal with something as small as this.

 

[Bubba235]

Once again, I agree. This would be last on the To-Do List:

1. Stop all of the flaming in the world.
2. Get rid of cussing as a whole.
3. Finish Website.
4. Give Bubba235 a lot of money.
5. Make sure that EVERYONE on Pokebeach will NEVER mess up a sentence again.

 

[INFERNAPE]

I agree Tearsofan. But some kids type like this....and that's just ridiculous. This is the kinda thing that needs to be fixed.

why everybodi call me a ripper?? I not a ripper!! and red blastoise say I send to the same time and I say ok.. I have sent and I don't receive from red blastoise!! Is a ripper! is ripped my cards!! and now it say I don't sent for the people don't trade it me! is your choice! if you don't want trade don't trade but don't call me a ripper! and red blastoise I go give you a bad ref for pippe me and for defamation!!

^See.

Even if you notice that you made a mistake, just edit your post and fix it. That's what I do.

 

[Noob Sandwich]

I agree Tearsofan. But some kids type like this....and that's just ridiculous. This is the kinda thing that needs to be fixed.

why everybodi call me a ripper?? I not a ripper!! and red blastoise say I send to the same time and I say ok.. I have sent and I don't receive from red blastoise!! Is a ripper! is ripped my cards!! and now it say I don't sent for the people don't trade it me! is your choice! if you don't want trade don't trade but don't call me a ripper! and red blastoise I go give you a bad ref for pippe me and for defamation!!

^See.

Even if you notice that you made a mistake, just edit your post and fix it. That's what I do.

That person is from Portugal from my understanding.

 

[INFERNAPE]

Oh. But even still.....

 

[Bubba235]

We have noticed that INFERNAPE. There has been a huge discussion of those people like hunter girl, lucario_revenge, etc.

P.S. That wasn't supposed to sound mean. If it did, I am sorry.

I noticed it was kind of mean when I read it over to find mistakes...

 

[INFERNAPE]

It wans't mean at all=]

 

[TofU]

why everybodi call me a ripper?? I not a ripper!! and red blastoise say I send to the same time and I say ok.. I have sent and I don't receive from red blastoise!! Is a ripper! is ripped my cards!! and now it say I don't sent for the people don't trade it me! is your choice! if you don't want trade don't trade but don't call me a ripper! and red blastoise I go give you a bad ref for pippe me and for defamation!!

Agreed INFERNAPE. If everyone, all of a sudden just started talking like that^^ then this would be a real issue, thus resulting in action. But for now, this thread has no importance at all. Its just another random person, sucking up so they can become part of the staff...

 

[Khalddrogo]

Actually, this isn't a real problem at all. Thats just umbreondude, trying to suck up to the Mods. This thread is completely ridiculous, and makes no sense whatsoever. Let people type how they please. If it gets out of hand, which its not, then its something to worry about. But for right now, this thread is umbreondude sucking up and crying out for attention. Nothing more, nothing less...

How am I sucking up? Please tell me. I just feel this is a big problem (if it wasn’t why is there so many posts?)

 

[Blue Thunder]

I like seeing how grammar and spelling are going to be enforced...however, I don't see too many people typing like the examples above, so I don't think this is one of the first issues that need to be addressed.

Actually, this isn't a real problem at all. Thats just umbreondude, trying to suck up to the Mods. This thread is completely ridiculous, and makes no sense whatsoever. Let people type how they please. If it gets out of hand, which its not, then its something to worry about. But for right now, this thread is umbreondude sucking up and crying out for attention. Nothing more, nothing less...

How am I sucking up? Please tell me. I just feel this is a big problem (if it wasn’t why is there so many posts?)

Half of the people here the posted are just saying how little value this thread has. Another portion are just giving examples of "bad grammar." Even when I posted here for the first time, I asked a question about how this was going to work.

And besides, post count means practically nothing.

 

[dmaster]

English isn't the hardest language (see Chinese), but it isn't the easiest either. IMO, most of the people at this website are in the U.S. Anyone not from the U.S., and they don't know English very well, should learn. People who are in the U.S. need to type better period.

dmaster out.

 

[Fridge]

This thread is just a bunch of people trying (and failing) to prove they are awesome, and desereve to be like, the coolest peoeple ever and then be moded, and then super moded, and then be admins, and then be even more super cool.

As soon as this thread pops up, suddenly everyone has an interest in pefect grammar. To be honest, I am not a grammar freak, and don't care that much abotu it, but it does peev me when poeple type things so badly that I can't read it without my eyes bleeding.

I think that really its just that having bad grammar makes you look nooby, and it is, nooby in a way. Therefore, as soon as an oppurtunity arrises, suddenly everyone is all: 'Oh, I think this is so important...' and 'OH, I have perfect grammar... I hate bad grammar', and so on, to prove their unnoobishness.

Guys, real lame.

 

[Chairman Kaga]

Agreed. Since I mentioned it, I've seen a grand total of two reports, and I don't even think the reported posts were bad enough to warrant mod action.

Also, the reporters failed to capitalize their sentences. Hello, Pot, this is Kettle: you're black.

While we do have a forum rule on it, I'll advise that this is not something any of the mods are interested in lawyering -- unless someone's spelling/grammar is so egregiously bad that simply reading their post gives us cancer. Feel free to report something on that level.

And with that, this thread has officially failed.