Originally posted by: EyeMWing
You know who you are. You know if you're a tardass who vomits terribly structured english all over the internet. You know if your only comeback if someone calls you out on your non-existant spelling and grammar is "fawk off mang itz just teh intarweb dun tayke it so serious." This is especially annoying if you msg me with it after I ban you from IRC for general asshattery, but that's another thread.
You see, "teh intarweb," especially productive forums and other places where information is exchanged, is a serious place. Sure, on myspace and livejournal nobody cares about your bad grammar - because nobody cares about your myspace or livejournal. But when we're trying to discuss custom fuel management systems for cars, the design of an onboard datalogging unit, an internet provider's day-to-day operations, laptops, computer hardware, cars, or any of a billion other topics that don't involve personal details, and you say something like "haha lyke mai gurlfrenz dad dyd meh up teh bum wif hiz styk" (i.e. something that APPEARS totally irrelevant, but we can't really tell because the english appears to have been written by a fetus on the inside of some poor woman's womb, don't be so offended when we call you out on it. We honestly want to know WTF you said, just in case you were talking about something your girlfriend's father did to his WISP's tower to improve range. But no, instead you have to go and freak out because we're taking the internet "too seriously." Okay, actually you freak out because "teh intarweb is nut serious" - we just think you're trying to tell us we take it too seriously. We can't really tell.
Of course, there's another aspect to this argument. When constructing sentences, the human mind starts with an idea, and then assembles words from it's primary collection to convey the idea in accordance with the primary rules of grammar that it learned. This is then most easily and efficiently transmitted directly to the output - i.e. to the part of your mind that matches those words with a series of sounds, or in this case, a series of movements of your fingers (or potentially a series of letters for the hunt and peck people.) However, in the case of your crap, one of three things is true:
1) You learned the wrong words (and grammar) - kill your parents and teachers now.
2) Your primary language is not english, and either you have not learned the proper grammatical patterns and individual words for english, therefore when your mind translates into english before outputting, it comes out wrong.
3) You're a total tardass who is wasting extensive time and effort intentionally translating into a nonexistant english-based language.
Therefore, when we try to read your text, our minds can't immediately lock onto an exact match for your words. Therefore, we try creating alternative spellings in our heads and, if that doesn't work, attempting to translate what we see into a series of sounds and matching THAT to words. And then, chances are, the words don't fit any known grammatical pattern, so we try to break it down and sectionalize it so it fits. THEN, and only then, we try to extract an idea from it. That's a lot of room to get something wrong and recieve the wrong idea.
So - when we call you out on bad grammar, it's because we want to make sure we understand you properly, AND we're also fairly pissed off because you just wasted a ton of OUR neurotransmitters and "brain-time" on something that, unless case 2 above applies, is just WORTHLESS.
When you're communicating only with friends, you may develop a lexicon that conveys ideas without fully converting them into words, or allows you to textually communicate inflections. Very few of these (bold, caps, italics, and the word "heh") are commonly understood, so you should avoid them as well.
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