Spelling, punctuation & grammar - important?

[El Capitan]

In my opinion, if you don't do your best to type with correct spelling and grammar you are being disrespectful to potential readers. One fairly common thing for ex-pats is that we have to work in new languages than our own native speak. We may all make mistakes from time to time and yes, there are those who maybe have English as a second, third or fourth language and there are those who don't have the literacy standard of others. When I read in Spanish or French, I hope the native speakers have done their best to get it right because I learn from them. Thus if English speakers don't try their best to get English right, anyone reading the post and trying to learn or improve is potentially led astray. I even get annoyed with my own sister, an ex-teacher who types "loose" instead of "lose" in e.mails to me. A rule of proper grammar and spelling would be unrealistic but what is wrong with a request to try and get it right?

Each and every one has the freedom to respond accordingly to those who are intentionally disrespectful in their posts.

[RoadNotTaken]

I dont mind reading posts and answering questions if it was written like that. Heck, I barely even use the apostrophe. I tend to abuse the ellipses too.

What I hate is when you answer their question or post something, and it looks like they didnt read and understand what you said. Instead they would take a snippet of your post, criticize that one sentence, and ignore the whole post

[mmm]

text talk can't understand it, i always have to ask someone in thier teens, spelling a grammer is no my strong point but the brain doesn't really care what the eyes see hope you's enjoy the link

YouTube - How our brain tricks us

[MichelleAlison]

Originally Posted by mmm

text talk can't understand it, i always have to ask someone in thier teens, spelling a grammer is no my strong point but the brain doesn't really care what the eyes see hope you's enjoy the link

YouTube - How our brain tricks us

That's interesting

[mmm]

Originally Posted by MichelleAlison

That's interesting

glad you enjoyed

[El Capitan]

Originally Posted by mmm

text talk can't understand it, i always have to ask someone in thier teens, spelling a grammer is no my strong point but the brain doesn't really care what the eyes see hope you's enjoy the link

YouTube - How our brain tricks us

Whilst I agree that your brain can unjumble words in your native language, I very much doubt it would work with a second or third language.

[mmm]

Originally Posted by El Capitan

Whilst I agree that your brain can unjumble words in your native language, I very much doubt it would work with a second or third language.

now you've got my brain thinking, must ask my sister if she can do it both in english and in french or if there is linguists here i wonder if they can do it in more than one laungage

[RoadNotTaken]

Originally Posted by mmm

now you've got my brain thinking, must ask my sister if she can do it both in english and in french or if there is linguists here i wonder if they can do it in more than one laungage

That is a different case, especially since english is used, as that is a widely understood language by people all over the world

If it was a combination of german and filipino, that would be more confusing, compared to spanish/latin and english

A pretty easy way to decipher which language it is from, is to look for the usual letters that come up in that language. Bs, Gs, Ks Rs, Ns, Ts, Ss for filipino. Fs Ls, Js for french

[mmm]

Originally Posted by RoadNotTaken

That is a different case, especially if english is used, as that is a widely understood language by people all over the world

If it was a combination of german and filipino, that would be more confusing, compared to spanish/latin and english

A pretty easy way to decipher which language it is from, is to look for the usual letters that come up in that language. Bs, Gs, Ks Rs, Ns, Ts, Ss for filipino. Fs Ls, Js for french

I'm not sure were on the same page as its in english, I was just wonder if you jumbled up other langages i.e french and it wasn't your native tongue the same principle would apply? not the identification of which language the text is in or a mix of of more than one
the rule of the trick is only first and last letter of the word is in the same place the rest are jumbled

[RoadNotTaken]

Originally Posted by mmm

I'm not sure were on the same page as its in english, I was just wonder if you jumbled up other langages i.e french and it wasn't your native tongue the same principle would apply? not the identification of which language the text is in or a mix of of more than one
the rule of the trick is only first and last letter of the word is in the same place the rest are jumbled

My post was talking about a situation where you were asked to read a paragraph of jumbled up words that use 2 different languages

English is my third language, and I have no problems if I was given a paragraph of jumbled up words using whichever (only one) language of the three

Of course, this exercise would be harder to pull off using a language with very few letters, or commonly use a few letters. Hawaiian would be a great example