Why is it that people have lost all their grammar skills?

Question

I am a writer and love the english language. Grammar is/should be a huge part of your writing skills. If it isn't, than people won't be able to understand the point you're trying to get across!!

This question has to do with computers/internet because I've noticed it when I'm on my computer more than anywhere else.

OOOHHH! I love it when you people call me "BABE"!

It makes you seem sooo intelligent!

3apa3a: I did ask a question, you answered, and I discovered that you are ...... I'll remain polite.

Answer 1

I do not think they ever had them. As an employer, on receiving applications for a position, the first thing I did was to read them and check for grammar and spelling. I worked in the public sector and anyone too lazy to check their grammar and spelling, their application was automatically assigned to the waste-basket after a brief note thanking them for their interest (good manners). I did not want these people representing me to the public.

Answer 2

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Actually, it's just that people's standards have dropped massively over the years. Many people stopped caring about how they spell, or how they word their sentences, so long as the person on the other end understands what they're trying to relay to them.

This has, of course, created a massive seperation between those who choose to speak properly, and those that just don't care. So much seperation, in fact, that now it's become almost impossible for two people from opposing groups to communicate with eachother. The one who's stopped caring about "proper" grammar can't understand the big words and real spellings, whereas the one who still uses proper grammar doesn't have any clue what the abbreviations for three-letter words are supposed to mean.

I, honestly, blame the Internet as the main factor in this mess. Mainly because many people don't want to learn how to properly type, and search-and-peck is (in most cases) a slow process, leading people to abbreviating anything and everything they can.

Answer 3

Never had and never cared about, dear... or shall i say "babe" ;D
Somehow, i do not give a daaame, as long i understand the meaning of the text. And i think, you and some other friendly people above me, are on the wrong site... it's about asking, answering & discovering ;D here, not about grammar. Amin.

Maybe you should start loving the people, as much, as you are loving THE english LANGUAGE

Answer 4

i do no longer believe clever illiteracy correlates with laptop use. Your assertion is basically too customary, yet some at Yahoo solutions and different teenager web pages curiously skipped English training at college altogether. What astonishes me is the lack of ability of subject on the subject of the language itself, no longer in elementary terms spelling. Many web pages grant spell checkers, yet they are seldom used. although, spell checkers can not maximum dazzling your grammar. I complication approximately those human beings, and their destiny. How will they fill out a job utility, and could they understand a thank you to answer the questions asked? we are no longer appropriate, despite the fact that it may be effective to try for progression, as a replace of the "i do no longer supply a rat's rear end if human beings don´t like how I write, what dose it rely, as long as they understand, am no longer gonna replace".

Answer 5

It's not that they've lost them. They just never had them. As a published author, I was appalled when I got the final copy from the editors (I did not have editorial control). They had butchered grammar, syntax and whole "flow" of the work. This from "professionals". You notice this most via the computer because that's where you see the most written communication from others.

Answer 6

They haven't lost them - they never had them to begin with. People learn languages by hearing them spoken, and very few people speak entirely correctly. I don't, and I think of myself as a good writer, for the most part. My husband is a brilliant person, but his grammar is utterly deplorable.

Sometimes perfect grammar can isolate you from a linguistic community. Sometimes lousy grammar can do the same thing. It depends on your linguistic environment, I think.

Answer 7

Technology has certainly played its part. Text messaging, email and blogs have replaced the note, the letter and the diary. Good grammar today is the exception rather than the norm, especially in cyberspace.

Answer 8

The load of education is increasing and many a subjects are introduced As such students are always being loaded with additional works and all that .All are working for gains in the main tests. Grammer only can not GIVE them higher caliber .as time passes whatever they do they write. whatever they learnt in grammer Is insufficient.Agreed that the standards are lowered

Answer 9

This is the spoken English babe, grammar ,spelling etc.do not have any sense in this, more over super imposed by American English.

Answer 10

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