I post a question and in the details, I introduce myself as Math author and I ask politely for an honest answer. One user named John did not answer my question but rather gave me these comments:
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You will find yourself discriminated more due to your lack of grammer than your nationality.
I have no idea what nationality you are, but I have already formed a decision that you are not well read, nor well educated by the way you write.
On the web, no one sees your color
I agree I'm not good in grammar because I have less interest in English language and I am more in math, but of course I can communicate. I just want to ask, are you guys particular with grammar here in Yahoo Answers?
2007-12-27 04:56:33 · 13 answers · asked by Toralba 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I understand you very well, my native language is not English either, but I try to do my best when answering a question. I´m sure I make mistakes. What I have seen from your question, your English does not seem bad at all!
What makes me angry, are all the slang words used nowadays all over the world, really! Many questions and answers are full of spelling mistakes. By the way when looking at John´s comment, I notice that he writes "grammer" and not "grammar", so he makes mistakes too.
In my meaning his answer sounds like him being a racist, I´m sorry to say.
Don´t take it so seriously, there are many kinds of people, some are not so nice, but most really are! LIVE AND LET LIVE!
Interesting question!
A Happy New Year to you from northern Europe!
2007-12-27 14:12:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
As a person with an English degree, I like to see people use correct English. Perhaps, because of my background, I am a bit more of a stickler about that than others with different backgrounds.
I am not bothered by persons who obviously are learning the language. They should make more mistakes than the rest of us. I do wonder, however, if grammar is emphasized in school these days. It could be partially the teachers fault if they let students get away with bad grammar.
If you are going to ask a question on this site, I believe you should make it as clear as possible, and that means using the best grammar you can. It is often difficult to understand questions because of the incorrect grammar. Good grammar includes not using abbreviations others may not know.
I generally do not correct grammar, though. That is rude.
2007-12-27 09:30:00 · answer #2 · answered by Polyglot Wannabe 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nobody but nobody can spell correctly in English, not even the spell checker on the computer! It spell about as well as anybody, having made it through three college degree programs, including one in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). But the little spell check program flags me on a regular basis, telling me I've spelled, say, Obama's name wrong (when I know darn well I've spelled it correctly), or put too much punctuation in -- but I put it there for a perfectly good reason. And oops, there he is, that little flagger, saying I've made a mistake when I know precisely what I did and why I did it! The real problem is that we spell the way that Chaucer spoke, over 400 years ago. How is a body to remember correctly all those silly rules for putting in letters to represent sounds that nobody has made in all that time? How are we to recall the reasons for writing letter combinations that only made sense when Shakespeare was still living? It's all such nonsense! It's high time we reformed English spelling and if anybody would listen to me, I've devised a very simple and logical system for doing it that anybody with half a brain could master in two hours. Then we'd all spell the same and do it well and we could dispense with the knuckle-headed spell checker that doesn't know what I'm doing here! But no, we've got to go on putting in those silent letters and pretending that five vowel letters are enough when English has over 10 vowel sounds at least (depending on which dialect you happen to speak). Sigh!
2016-05-27 03:12:36 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the question is obviously written by a non-native English speaker, then it does not worry me - I accept that the person is writing in a foreign language and therefore likely to make mistakes in grammar. However, when it's clear that the person has English as a first language, because of the slang or text message jargon that appears in the question, then I form a negative opinion of that person if the grammar is also at fault.
2007-12-27 05:35:54 · answer #4 · answered by JJ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I am very careful with the way I write on the Web. Not because I am trying to be recognized as a very good communicator [which I hope I am(^_^)], but because I want to make sure that I get myself understood. That way I can help people better. What do you think? (^_^)
2007-12-28 01:22:21 · answer #5 · answered by chad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with JJ,
often Americans criticize you for grammar but they have poor grammar themselves. Just stay on YA and you will be convinced : slang, loose instead of lose, it's instead of its and so on.
If you are living in a non-English country, I don't have pretensions, since you're a learner.
2007-12-27 07:06:26 · answer #6 · answered by Theta40 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not really for as long as we can understand each other, it'll be just fine. I wish that english speakers would speak like the old-times, you know when Shakesphere used to write poems with such eloquence.
2007-12-28 07:18:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the way the question asked in the first place, and also what sort of question does the questioner ask.
Usually I do try to be
2007-12-27 05:02:13 · answer #8 · answered by idlevil_73 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Spelling and Grammar are important!
2007-12-27 04:59:14 · answer #9 · answered by vuh 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Grammar is important and you should express yourself intelligently ..but come on if your are a doctor, professor, or someone who makes a six-figure income then I seriously doubt you have a lot of time to be on Yahoo answers so who is it your trying to impress the person who works in a 6x5 cubicle ..who shouldn't be on here anyway .please be for real .....
2007-12-27 05:09:48 · answer #10 · answered by meka33311 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋