Bad Grammar - Bothersome?

[Darkfur]

I am a stickler on grammar, and my kids hate me for it.
My daughter constantly uses the word "like" and that drives me straight up the wall. There are certain uses for the word "like", but not for the beginning of a sentence. Example : "Like, she saw what the guy was doing, so like, she went and told the principal." That drives me absolutely crazy. And she just started high school so I am trying so very hard to break her of this bad habit. As much as I hate to say it, I would almost rather her say "Um" or "Uh".
I only use text speak when I have to. Some of my friends do not have unlimited text messaging on their phone, so it becomes necessary to shorten a message to allow for that. Otherwise, my phone messages read just like my posts.

[CasinWolfe]

I don't mind the occasional shortened word (like someone using "thru" instead of "through") though I don't do it myself. I wish people would use casual grammar though, as in typing the way you would speak, and actually type out the words. The only time the shortened words really bothers me however is when there are so many that it becomes difficult for me to read it. As to grammar where spelling is not concerned, if people don't capitalize and use periods it doesn't bother me too much on here (unless they've written a big paragraph, then the lack of periods bothers me a lot) but if the sentence structure isn't correct it really annoys me; because again, it then becomes difficult to read and I hate when people do this intentionally knowing that they're making it hard for other people to understand them. I think it's rude, and bottom line, if someone wants to make they're post difficult to read so they don't have to use proper grammar, then I'm not going to take the effort to read it.

[SlimeAttack]

Ugh. Yes. I grew up with my parents, who immigrated from Vietnam. This caused my English to be horrible from the start. ;__; However, I still take the effort to fix my mistakes and re-read everything before I post it. It bothers me /so/ much when people can't bother to spell out words like you, are, to, or please. Does it really take up that much time to type out two more letters? I'm fine with things like "lol" or "brb," but "u" and "r" just drive me up the wall. Using it every once in a while, or when you run out of space on a text is fine. But just doing it every single time because it "wastes so much energy" is a bit stupid. I really doubt that someone would be in so much of a hurry that they couldn't say something like "Oh! I have to go. I'll see you later," instead of "o i g2g c u l8r." I can't stand 1337 speak. Why would you take the time and effort to look for numbers and symbols on the keyboard that could represent letters? Why not just type out the real word? Another pet peeve of mine is when people mix up homophones like they're, their, or there; or your and you're. I learned that difference in /FIRST/ grade.

I think it's rude, and bottom line, if someone wants to make they're post difficult to read so they don't have to use proper grammar, then I'm not going to take the effort to read it.

^ Thank you for listing my exact thoughts.

[Dragonmage]

Bad grammar tends to make my head hurt. I despise trying to read and understand it. Typos are one thing, but deliberately making your (general you) post or other writing hard to read makes me hit the back button and go look for something else.

[Psychologic]

Bad grammar has two sides to it.

Of course there are those incapable of knowing grammar, and for that reason alone I dismiss them in any rant. As people with certain cognitive disorders are not able to know how to spell correctly. Let alone how to use punctuation and the whole works. At the same time there are those who are just downright lazy, and this troubles me. How can they expect to be looked at with respect when they typpeg lkie tdhs? With no grammar in it at all.

We're all human, we all make mistakes. But some mistakes can be stopped.
Of course this is only my opinion. Others may differ.

[Spectre]

I'm OCD, therefore it's painful for me to read sentences with improper/incorrect grammar. I do understand people with mental disorders, such as dyslexia, and I do make exceptions for them as they can't help it. However those who try to be "1337", or are trying to be "gangster" really make me mad. There's a difference from being a derp due to birth defects and just being a derp. The only other exception I tend to make is when texting, there I understand because most of my friends don't have unlimited text like I do.

[Skyeh]

Urgh, bad grammar. People always rag on me at school for correcting people's grammar -- especially when they're talking. It's just, I read a lot more than anyone else I know, so when people talk or write, something seems off, so I have to correct them immediately.

I like to think that I'm helping them.

[Starylz]

Bad grammar tends to bother me, a lot. However, I feel that it can be overlooked if the person is not purposely making the mistakes. But, as stated above, I dislike it when people tend to abbreviate things like 'w/e' and 'bc'. Is it really that hard just to type out 'whatever' and 'because'? Once in a while is understandable, but it really gets on my nerves when people just don't understand how important grammar is. Of course though, I'm not the best at grammar - but at least I try, and I'm okay with people correcting me when I make a mistake that I didn't notice.

[tygrineheart]

Well it depends on the mood I'm in really. I don't mind if people have spelling mistakes but if people are talking in chat speak I don't. I don't mind something like lol or brb but the rest I hate. My friends tease me because they think I'm 'posh' and snobby. I'm not!

[froglady]

I hate chatspeak. It would take so much longer to figure out how to type something differently from the normal word that I don't know how folks thinks it saves time. I don't get all grammar nazi about honest misspellings, though the to/two/too and there/their/they're and your/you're mistakes make me cringe a bit. Don't even get me started on "should/could/would of". *Shiver*
I once put down a book that had one too many instances of someone "walking in the room" instead of "walking into the room". I never did finish it, nor have I read any other works by that same (very popular) author. I just can't cut reading something that was written by someone with such little command of English grammar.