It amuses me how many non-native speakers excuse themselves for "having a bad English" when they write and speak it better than most native speakers. Then get bashed by someone in a grammar-lacking-and-orthography-terrorist comment just because the poor foreigner made a misspelling.
On a more serious note, I don't really care if people take shortcuts with typing. There are plenty of other things in the world that deserve out attention and anger than how someone types.
English is my second language and I'm often shocked by how lazy people can be to learn and use it. To make things worse, they show little to no interest on improving their capabilities on the ONE language they are able to (barely) use. Therefore, I endorse this picture.
On a more serious note the current trend towards cutting coners/misuse of words & letters in texting and other online writing/blogging/whatever can be seen as simply another development in the evolution of the English language. Hundreds of years from now our standard English might be seen as complicated/foreign as Latin is to today's Romance (French, Spanish, Itatian, etc.) language speakers...
Well, about Spanish, it's far more complex than Latin. I'm a Spanish native speaker and I studied Latin for a couple of years. I tell you, Latin is simpler in all aspects.
I know some Portuguese people who speak Spanish and French, they say Portuguese is simpler than French and French simpler than Spanish. Apparently Sp. is the most complex of all Romance languages. However no idea where Valencian, Italian and Romanian fall into that scale.
:/ Except my phone will split the message into 2 messages every time I go over 160 characters, and my friends complain about it. Not every situation is cut and dry.
How they teach grammar in boot camp.
TL;DR
this is the internet, get used to it.
... the instigator! Quick! Burn him!
Yeah, get your goddamn orthography right!
It amuses me how many non-native speakers excuse themselves for "having a bad English" when they write and speak it better than most native speakers. Then get bashed by someone in a grammar-lacking-and-orthography-terrorist comment just because the poor foreigner made a misspelling.
Brutal honesty. It gets the point across a helluva lot faster.
y u haff 2 b mad?
On a more serious note, I don't really care if people take shortcuts with typing. There are plenty of other things in the world that deserve out attention and anger than how someone types.
Too many words! It brings back bad memories of high school english class!
Grammar nazis are more than necessary in schools today
you ******* ****
We need you grammar nazis in my school. that way my teacher can FINALLY ******* SHUT UP ABOUT THIS ****! Pre-AP English II to be specific. Yeah...
English is my second language and I'm often shocked by how lazy people can be to learn and use it. To make things worse, they show little to no interest on improving their capabilities on the ONE language they are able to (barely) use. Therefore, I endorse this picture.
Whoever wrote this, I will f***ing WORSHIP you!
P.S. Holy ****, I'm using commas and apostrophes correctly!
On a more serious note the current trend towards cutting coners/misuse of words & letters in texting and other online writing/blogging/whatever can be seen as simply another development in the evolution of the English language. Hundreds of years from now our standard English might be seen as complicated/foreign as Latin is to today's Romance (French, Spanish, Itatian, etc.) language speakers...
Well, about Spanish, it's far more complex than Latin. I'm a Spanish native speaker and I studied Latin for a couple of years. I tell you, Latin is simpler in all aspects.
No idea about other romance languages though.
And Portuguese is even more complicated.
I know some Portuguese people who speak Spanish and French, they say Portuguese is simpler than French and French simpler than Spanish. Apparently Sp. is the most complex of all Romance languages. However no idea where Valencian, Italian and Romanian fall into that scale.
Good job sir. I hope ********* will learn some proper English now...
IMO, using this much offenses, insults and foul language is worse than grammar shortcuts.
Good read was good, a bit on the short side though.
Just to ruin this awesome picture...
There's a case of lower-case "i's" instead of "I", in the line "i [sic] can't believe i [sic] have to actually explain this **** to you"
I'm sorry, but we're going to have to take grammar school drill sargeant and court-martial him for that one.
That, and: "...when you use him a sentence". There's an "in" missing in there.
i noticed that as well.
tisk tisk
I can imagine Sergeant Hartman yelling this at my face.
Grammar Nazi: level 9000.
:/ Except my phone will split the message into 2 messages every time I go over 160 characters, and my friends complain about it. Not every situation is cut and dry.