A brilliant idea or opinion, but badly phrased...?

Question

Does it garner your respect? Are you able to overcome the barriers, or do the errors in syntax, grammer, and spelling distract you from it's content?

Answer 1

True lacksadaisical hammering of keyboard and submission of verbal missive without the use of spelling or grammar correction, deters firm belief, and encourages uneccessary dissention and criticism....true...to have ideas and ideals is the first step, to be able to communicate them effectively to a broad range of persons is an altogether seperate blessing...To desire to convey knowledge or wisdom is a virtue in itself. May all the barriers that hinder your progress to nirvana and spiritusl acsension fall with ease...

Answer 2

I can overlook some error, most common error, and obvious typos. When it is overall simply poorly written; it does make it hard for me to take the content seriously.

If someone wishes me to read something, they should make it readable!

A wise man once told me that the "true" and "gifted" communicator could "come down to the level" of the poor speaker. I have not yet reached that level!

Answer 3

Depends.

Some people don't have a strong aptitude for the English language. Some people write better than they speak and some speak better than they can write. For some English is a second, third or fourth language.

It's the people who are skilled enough in the English language but fail to communicate because of sloppiness or laziness that deserve chastising.

Haven't people ever heard a child express an idea so sophisticated that they don't have the vocabulary to accurately express it?

Answer 4

I over looking the English. This is an international forum with international ideas. Sometimes the ideas are expressed poorly but the ideas themselves are brilliant. English is just a means of communicating ideas .... English itself is not the idea. Listen, half the contributions I read from from the USA... they can't even spell "colour".. so why make a fuss when the idea is gold.

Answer 5

Sometimes I am. Because often I'm the one doing it ;) (Never start a sentence with "because", for instance.)

But when it's so disorganized that you can't even follow the train of thought, it's irritating. Words matter. They show respect for the audience. I wish people would take a bit more time trying to get a point across. For instance a gentleman who just claimed the "Bill of Rights" began with our being "endowed by our creator..." A simple wiki check would often clear up that kind of mistake.

Hope you had a happy xmas, UP.

Answer 6

Brilliant ideas overshadow trivial errors in grammar, syntax, and spelling.

Answer 7

usually, the idea shines though

spelling and typos are secondary

grammar and syntax take a bit more effort,
but a sufficiently luminescent concept seems
to generate its own channeling effect

Answer 8

I can't say it gains my respect but I can overlook a little bad typing (my own skills lack, so how can I fault others?) But it must be understandable, no bad babel fish translations.

Answer 9

Seriously, as long as I can figure it out, I have no problem with it. If we can't overlook grammar and the lot, then we have no business trying to help people.

Answer 10

a little of both. if i can grasp what is meant and it's superior, i can be charitable about the rest of it. but it IS annoying to have to wade through gibberish to get to the pearl...

sort of like when you talk to young children. when they explain stuff, it's hilarious because they add all sorts of strange anecdotes and sideplots before giving you the gist of what happened...