That's very interesting!megalomania said:Grammar is a bit of a weird example of this because most people (in England, as per my experience!) are not taught English grammar; they learn to write properly through imitation of what they read & blindly correcting mistakes when they are pointed out by the teacher. So there is a major distinction to be made between functional grammar, good grammar and bad grammar. It means making assumptions about people's grammar vs intelligence is tricky!Subzerowings said:That confuses me.Black Sulphur said:I guess it's the same reason people think punctuation and grammar makes them intelligent.
Wouldn't that mean that people who don't use good grammar aren't less intelligent than those who do?
People who aren't that well educated about grammar probably don't know much about it and are thus probably less intelligent when it comes to grammar than those who are educated about it.
If bad grammar is considered "normal" amongst those who don't know much about it, then those who do know much about it would be considered intelligent when compared to them.
This theory wouldn't apply to people that are well educated about grammar, but choose not to use it, though.
I didn't know that, thank you.
Where I live (Belgium), we're taught grammar every day (which is quite a lot since I have Dutch, English, German, Spanish and Latin).
I always thought that English grammar was kind of easy though, especially when compared to Latin.
I guess I should be a bit less judgemental when it comes to English grammar then.
I thank you, this has been quite educational.