Which grammar errors are acceptable?
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It really depends on the situation. College paper? Yeah, not acceptable. Forums? Well, you might make people mad, but unless there's a rule that says "Spell your shit right", you can misspell anything you want to.
actually, that gave me a headache.Queen Michael said:
no grammar errors are okay with me except for capitalisation, which i feel that in an informal setting can be used informally. (actually, i speak ten languages and always forget what needs to be capitalised in english. but i like my reason better.)
Any grammar mistake is ok, long as it doesn't mix the idea of the message. The idea of the message is the most important part of communication, not how it is served.
Chocolate ice-cream is still chocolate-ice cream even if it is served on a gold plate.
Chocolate ice-cream is still chocolate-ice cream even if it is served on a gold plate.
In conversation, all errors are fine - it's slang.
In an article, or piece of writing into which people have put a lot of thought, I dislike finding any.
In an article, or piece of writing into which people have put a lot of thought, I dislike finding any.
Interestingly enough, as much as I prefer to write correctly, this is very sort of thing that I don't mind as a grammatical error. For some reason, even ending a sentence with a preposition sounds weirder to me than without, at times.Queen Michael said:
For forums and other "casual" internet posting areas (this does not count Instant Messengers as a different set of rules apply there)
Spelling words with more than five characters wrong, so long as it is close, is okay.
Spelling three letter words wrong, not so much.
Using punctuation wrong occasionally is okay.
Typing a wall of text with no punctuation what so ever, not so much.
Using the wrong version of a word consistently is okay to me.
Using the wrong version of a word once but then using the correct version elsewhere in the same post, not so much.
For professional or college papers no mistakes are acceptable and students should be slapped by their professor if they do make mistakes.
Also note : Not being a native speaker of the language one is posting in provides a bit more leeway but it does not excuse all mistakes. Make some sort of effort at least.
Spelling words with more than five characters wrong, so long as it is close, is okay.
Spelling three letter words wrong, not so much.
Using punctuation wrong occasionally is okay.
Typing a wall of text with no punctuation what so ever, not so much.
Using the wrong version of a word consistently is okay to me.
Using the wrong version of a word once but then using the correct version elsewhere in the same post, not so much.
For professional or college papers no mistakes are acceptable and students should be slapped by their professor if they do make mistakes.
Also note : Not being a native speaker of the language one is posting in provides a bit more leeway but it does not excuse all mistakes. Make some sort of effort at least.
I'm a freelance writer, so although that was 'technically' correct(some minor nit-pick errors), the way it was presented was total crap (no offense). Better ways to say it would be; "I'm Swedish, so it's hard to learn that kind of thing. It's great when people help." or "It's hard to learn things like that because I'm Swedish, so it's helpful when people point them out." and pretty much anything along those lines.Queen Michael said:
but lack of capitalization is OK, sometime not putting the ' in words(like we're), not using/putting ';' in, using 'alot' instead of 'a lot', and I always like to use two question marks when I ask a question. ex. what are you doing tonight??
but on forums and text, hell even emails it's not a real problem. Except when it is a formal document, it doesn't matter as long as its easy to read and understand. I mean hell, most of my grammatical shit is out of habit.
