Do you use proper grammar on casual websites?

[Redz]

I doubt any of us use "proper" grammar 100% of the time, if only because there are a lot of grammatical rules that almost everyone ignores.

I take grammatical shortcuts from time to time, but overall try to type as clearly as possible.  I'd say 99% of the posts on here are fine.  It's only when people go out of their way to essentially talk in caricatures of ebonics or tweet speak that I have an issue.  It's like people are actively trying to sound ignorant, which just doesn't seem worth the effort.

Colloquial grammar, perhaps?

Conversational, at least.

It's like the rule that "however" should never start a sentence.  One of my professors in a Supreme Court seminar was a stickler for that rule, and would mark us down if we used it.  I couldn't help skirting that particular rule by trying to find every quote I could from a Supreme Court Justice starting a sentence that way.

The best one is the "don't put a preposition at the end of a sentence" rule, which allegedly led Winston Churchill to once quip: "This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.”

There's a good joke (well, a joke at least) on this topic.

Person 1:  Where's the bathroom at?
Person 2:  It's improper to end a sentence with a preposition.
Person 1:  My apologies.  Where's the bathroom at ________ (insert profane term)?

[CelticConcourse]

There's a good joke (well, a joke at least) on this topic.

Person 1:  Where's the bathroom at?
Person 2:  It's improper to end a sentence with a preposition.
Person 1:  My apologies.  Where's the bathroom at ________ (insert profane term)?

Deserves a million TPs

[indeedproceed]

There's a good joke (well, a joke at least) on this topic.

Person 1:  Where's the bathroom at?
Person 2:  It's improper to end a sentence with a preposition.
Person 1:  My apologies.  Where's the bathroom at ________ (insert profane term)?

Deserves a million TPs

Is it a gender neutral profanity?

[dark_lord]

who cares

Then don't post. Irrelevant reply

i did post and will continue to, whether you think it is relevant or not. public forum

[Donoghus]

Spelling tends to be my bigger problem.  Certainly type faster than my brains works sometimes.  That leads to some interesting looking posts of mine.  Some of which I edit, some I don't.

[ACF]

who cares

Then don't post. Irrelevant reply

Topic: Yes.

Nah, there's an argument for both sides. Or maybe just a response to the question without any support. Or just a random thought. Let the man speak

OP asked a yes or no question. What "side" is being argued for in that post?

The Dark Side 

[dark_lord]

who cares

Then don't post. Irrelevant reply

Topic: Yes.

Nah, there's an argument for both sides. Or maybe just a response to the question without any support. Or just a random thought. Let the man speak

OP asked a yes or no question. What "side" is being argued for in that post?

The Dark Side 

i see what u did there   tp

[bdm860]

I doubt any of us use "proper" grammar 100% of the time, if only because there are a lot of grammatical rules that almost everyone ignores.

I take grammatical shortcuts from time to time, but overall try to type as clearly as possible.  I'd say 99% of the posts on here are fine.  It's only when people go out of their way to essentially talk in caricatures of ebonics or tweet speak that I have an issue.  It's like people are actively trying to sound ignorant, which just doesn't seem worth the effort.

Colloquial grammar, perhaps?

Conversational, at least.

It's like the rule that "however" should never start a sentence.  One of my professors in a Supreme Court seminar was a stickler for that rule, and would mark us down if we used it.  I couldn't help skirting that particular rule by trying to find every quote I could from a Supreme Court Justice starting a sentence that way.

The best one is the "don't put a preposition at the end of a sentence" rule, which allegedly led Winston Churchill to once quip: "This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.”

Reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWGjMxzopBg

[thirstyboots18]

who cares

Then don't post. Irrelevant reply

Topic: Yes.

Nah, there's an argument for both sides. Or maybe just a response to the question without any support. Or just a random thought. Let the man speak

OP asked a yes or no question. What "side" is being argued for in that post?

The Dark Side 

i see what u did there   tp

Wish I'd thought of it!    Clever.

[ACF]

who cares

Then don't post. Irrelevant reply

Topic: Yes.

Nah, there's an argument for both sides. Or maybe just a response to the question without any support. Or just a random thought. Let the man speak

OP asked a yes or no question. What "side" is being argued for in that post?

The Dark Side 

i see what u did there   tp

 

[ACF]

Reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWGjMxzopBg