Are you thick if you can't construct a proper sentence and spell all the words correctly?

Question

Some of you should be ashamed of yourselves!

Looking at some of the written ability on this site I despair! And don't give me the "they are kids" excuse -

Why is this do you think - only the smart need reply!

Answer 1

It's just the plain old American bastardisation of english coupled with a total lack of education and wit.

Jules, Australia.

Answer 2

No, you're probably lazy.

Informal methods of communication (IRC, IM, arguably e-mail and forums) set a lower standard. If your meaning is obscure, your audience will ask you to clarify. In such a context, few will go to the extra effort of ensuring correctness.

So what level of correctness should you expect of a troll-ridden forum, awash in haemorrhaged teen angst?
Take the question, for example: "written ability" should be "writing ability", a question mark is required after "do you think", and "only the smart" should probably begin a new sentence.

Is the original poster thick? Lazy?

Perhaps.

But still, to demand such attention to detail is hopelessly pedantic given the context. The question is at least coherent enough for an online forum.

Correct grammar and spelling say far more about education than intelligence. A person utterly unable to write coherently for a given context lacks education (or perhaps suffers from a coding disability). Afterall, how many are able to write to the rigorous standards required for academic publication?

In short, you can divide the mangled posts on sites such as these into three categories:
1. Lazy. Able but unwilling. The majority, in my optimistic opinion.
2. Unable. Lacking the education to construct a post of suitable formality.
3. Trolling. Don't feed the trolls.

Answer 3

I think it's a combination of laziness and lack of proper education. When I was in school, we only used computers for word processing applications, spreadsheets and things that would help us get better jobs when we graduated. Only the computers in our school's library had internet access, so there weren't a bunch of kids surfing the net when they shouldn't have been paying attention in class. I hated school, but I still got enough of an education to still be able to form a complete, punctuated sentence. Even on IM and email, I rarely, if ever shorten words to letters or numbers. I sometimes resort to that on text messaging with my cell phone, but that's only due to the limited amount of characters you can send at one time. To me, nothing is more annoying than reading a post on here where someone has used no punctuation, no capital letters, and has misspelled every other word. But, I guess not everyone on here are spelling bee champs. And I guess they seem to forget that when they're typing something in the answer box, that there's a little icon right above the box labeled "Check Spelling". So what are we really going to do about it? We don't know any of them in person, so we can't go complain to their teachers or parents. All we can do is gripe and complain, and commiserate with each other.

Answer 4

All on an identical time as he's dodging questions. Who extremely cares how that is declared if it comes from the coronary heart and neither Bush or Obama are speaking from the coronary heart. Obama has already betrayed 0.5 of what he promised and it;'s purely been a pair weeks. he's fullyyt a continuation of the comparable president we've had for the final 2 an prolonged time.

Answer 5

I think they have been taught to place more emphasis on things like "practical living" than grammar and spelling. I grade standardized tests for states, and the spelling is atrocious. Based on the tests, it seems they stop teaching grammar and spelling around 6th grade. The 6th graders spell and write at about the same level as the 10th graders, except the 10th graders have expanded their vocabulary since then, but don't know how to spell the words. Kentucky also tests their kids on things like "practical living," such as (and I swear this is true) asking 10th graders to name 3 things which would cause a restaurant to fail a Board of Health exam! If they just taught them how to spell and write, maybe they wouldn't have to work in fast food restaurants for the rest of their lives.

Answer 6

blame the knaves for the queen's english being clobbered, tech , im's, emotion's, all r to blame as they inhibit the use of long words