Do you use proper grammar on casual websites?

[fairweatherfan]

I try to use proper grammar as much as possible, and will often edit a post if it comes out wrong the first time. 

I don't care too much about other people's grammar, as long as I can understand them.  But, please be aware that if you're apostrophizing plural words you are hurting my soul.

If there is a dog, and it belongs to a family named Smith, its "the Smiths' dog", right?

I mean..RIGHT??

Check your privilege, bro, that dog belongs to itself.

[ManUp]

I try to use proper grammar as much as possible, and will often edit a post if it comes out wrong the first time. 

I don't care too much about other people's grammar, as long as I can understand them.  But, please be aware that if you're apostrophizing plural words you are hurting my soul.

Lol, I've probably cut you deep on a few occassions then. I often tend to do that on reflex, I'm a quick typer and for whatever reason I notice I do this a lot especially in chat or quick posts. I know it's incorrect but it just comes out.

[SparzWizard]

I don't know how or when to appropriately use apostrophes with plurals and I'm a college sophomore.

As for the rest, I'm familiar with (:

[Roy H.]

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.

[Celtics18]

Not everyone is great at grammar and spelling.  Some people prefer to use the short hand or slang that they are accustomed to using when discussing their favorite basketball team.

I have no problem with that. 

I generally do have a problem, though, with irate posts about someone else's writing style that are, themselves, teeming with mechanical errors.

[dark_lord]

who cares

[CelticConcourse]

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?

[Roy H.]

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.”

[Celtics18]

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.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCkuyF4rgoc

[Celtics4ever]

This is the world of vernacular, not English class, this doesn't take into account the proliferation of text slang and street talk on blogs.  I have seen others, none in this thread, berate others on their blogging grammar.

I do not always use proper grammar because I break too many rules in every post.

[Rondo2287]

who cares

People who have answered in this thread already

[ItStaysYang]

who cares

Then don't post. Irrelevant reply

Topic: Yes.

[CelticConcourse]

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

[ItStaysYang]

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?

[mmmmm]

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.”

I had to move you one click closer to zero TPs for that one, Roy!

Totally concur.

Clarity should be the goal in communication.   It is not always easy.  Rules usually help.  Sometimes they get in the way.