Do you think that most of the incorrect grammar on this site is from ...?

Question

people who have English as their second language, or by uneducated English speaking people?

Answer 1

From the second group. People who speak English as ESL always learned the grammar and spelling first and try to apply them. English-speakers rarely learn grammar at school; a lot of them can't tell the difference between who/whom, their/there/they're, it's/its...to name a few.

Answer 2

Oh goody...a pet subject of mine! I get SO irritated with incorrect grammar and poor spelling on this site. Typos, I can understand. But there is a Check Spelling button when asking a question or giving an answer. I think the incorrect grammar is coming from the uneducated English speaking people. Namely, kids who are using their 'Instant Message' and text messaging shorthand in all aspects of their life. Can you just imagine the resumes that are going to come from these kids in the near future? Kind of scary, isn't it? I wish folks would realize how lazy and ignorant they seem when they use that 'netspeak'. I despise it.

Answer 3

I think it's mostly uneducated English speaking people. Also people in a hurry to type their thoughts. Also, throwing grammar to the wind because it's an anonymous forum and your English teaher is nowhere near!

Answer 4

It "could" be possible . But I know as for myself and most Educated Indian People - Our Written English is much more grammatically Correct or at least we try to be "correct" . As for spoken English, there is always a difference in the way Americans,British, Polish,Chinese,Indians , Russians or different People across the Globe would speak .

Answer 5

whilst often times it is slightly annoying whilst some questions are blatantly incorrect or horribly misspelled, i think of often times it somewhat is only typos, some persons on indexed under are youthful and nonetheless in college, there are community variations to no longer point out for some English isn't their first language and whats up often times persons only make booboos, no one is ideal. and it somewhat is an casual place. :)

Answer 6

Definitely the second one.

My grammar is by no means the best, but at least my inconsistencies are consistent.

Also, my mom was an english major. My sister and I could spell certain words before we could read. And we read before we were in school.

Answer 7

It depends on your definition of "incorrect". Really.

The "incorrect" grammar produced by native speakers is actually just grammar that doesn't conform to the rules invented by certain groups. But as far as grammar goes it is completely patterned and shows all the signs of being just like grammatical forms of any language. The danger of judging language as "incorrect" is that this is often a form of discrimination: it is more acceptable to say that a person doesn't talk right than it is to say he/she is a bad person. But the definition of what's not right is usually, "However the people we don't like talk." A classic example is the situation of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE, sometimes called "Ebonics") in the United States, which is quite grammatical and shows all evidence of being a completely viable dialect of English. However, popular culture will tell you that this dialect is actually a degraded form of some other form of English and that it's not good language at all. That is, the fact that it's associated with black people makes it bad in their eyes. It's very sad in my opinion.

The "incorrect" grammar produced by nonnative speakers is usually judged to be incorrect because it doesn't fit with what native speakers judge to be fitting with their unconscious knowledge of their native language. This accounts for the "funny" feeling you get when you hear or read a sentence like, for example, "John walk to the store." Inasmuch as a native speaker expects "John walks to the store." or "John walked to the store." he/she will feel "funny" about that sentence. That funny feeling might be what's making you think it's "incorrect".

Answer 8

Well I usually try my best to not make a grammar mistake ,but to let you know ,not all here are native english speakers.I am from Belgium ,we speak in Dutch and I am sure even I try hard but yet I will make some mistakes ..dont you agree?

Answer 9

neither for you kind information using the improper grammar or as you put it incorrect grammar is from improper treatment of those forced to use it - alright now to further enlighten you my dear friend there is no such thing as incorrect and who is to say how one express one self and who are you to impose there is a pr0per English when the it's a white language and all of the non whites were one way or another forced to speak this inadequate language from the start just to deal with the barbaric uncaring white folks whom invented this mess !
Now i challenge you to read write and pronounce the ARABIC LANGUAGE THE URDU LANGUAGE AND THE CHINESE EXPRESSION ALRIGHT
yo! y'all cracks me up claiming and categorizing ones "everything - sheewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
and further more the blacks in USA has taken the language and created their own now yea I claim that and to prove it "Hip- Hop"
Ebonics! and don't forget the Jive talking of the 50's and 60's huh??
Now for you kind information no matter in which way one speaks what is important believe it or not is that they are understand by the loved ones , family and friends not to be accepted by you no matter where they are from - believe that!
and dig this English is dying faster that the race it belongs to also Arabic is rapidly expanding you see we not only proceed in more than one language Arabic is used more often expressing good will and blessing because the English language is no match to the sound of the Arabic language in doing so! now what!

Answer 10

The second one.