Grammer......

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I'm sure many of you have noticed that the quality of inglish grammer we get on the fourums leeves much to be dezired. Sumtimes its ok coz its obvious wots ment and, in fact, the errors can be kwite amewsing. On the uvver hand, there are sum messiges which can be bluddy difikult to understanned cos peeple put full stops and fings where they shudent.
Wot do you all fink? Shud we have a better grammer campaign or shud I just aksept that the kweens inglish has bin earivokably degreyded?

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Poor oil rig workers, nuffin to do all day!!. its all down to not being able to type me I've got a medical condition. So its all gobbly dee gook any way!!

OK, to hell with it. Unbolt it and we'll use it as an anchor!
 
That is an interesting observation.

I am a forum member who consistently writes posts which are both grammatically incorrect and have numerous spelling errors.

So why do I do it?

In my 'working' life I exercise care, spell checkers and other tools (including a necessarily zealous lawyer). On the forum , unencumbered of these barriers, I write as I think i.e in a disjointed , unstructured way and limited to my ability to type, and therefore spell, correctly 1st time.

I don't think I can be bothered, on this forum, to corrrect my behaviour as I enjoy when others do the same. I like trying to understand the mindset and attitudes of others through both what they write and how they write it rather than a clinical, hygienic environment which could not impart 'feel' of others.

Apologies if this offends, I'll try and compromise a little for the sake of clarity.

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Aaaah.... a serious response.....quite unusual around here!
I 'm not talking about 'style' of writing which, I agree, gives interesting insights into characters. Also useful to impart mood/humour etc over a purely textual communication route.
As a kid, I hated english at school and struggled to get O level. I find it quite interesting, therefore, that I am now rather critical of 'bad' grammar. Frequently the problem is misuse of words eg 'insure' instead of 'ensure' and 'there' instead of 'their' rather than just typing errors.
Reason for the post was not so much being critical but rather to find out if others also 'just grin and bear it' as I am happy to do!

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Re: \'rig workers

Hadn't thought about that one. But when the 'rig workers ones drop, do they have further to fall than those of land lubbers! Maybe thats why they all talk in a deep braod scottish accent!!

OK, to hell with it. Unbolt it and we'll use it as an anchor!
 
I'm going to 'Grin and Bear It'. Interesting thing is that I find youngsters in the office more conversant with the Queen's English than older generations, yet this is the converse of what educatonalists would have us believe.

There is of course another potential explanation.Many forum members are actually US citizens masquerading as UK Stinkies. No.....come to think of it grammatical and spelling standards aren't that bad. Must just be UK Raggies.

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ipersonallycantseewhattheproblemis.

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Apt.....could apply to this forum !

We've all heard that 'a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare'. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
Robert Wilensky 1951...originally

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Formal?

Online?

seemslikeacontradiction, eh?
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