I definately have some grammar Nazi tendencies, however I do appreciate we have some younger members, some who have missed out on chunks of their education and also those who have specific learning difficulties.
What I do object to though is things that are needlessly difficult to read. If there is just a wall of text with nothing to break it up into manageable chunks (wether these be full stops, paragraphs, bullet points, anything really!) then I generally can't be bothered to try and read it. Text speak is another bugbear, if your spelling is bad I'm fine about mistakes or phonetic spelling, but I find text speak so hard to understand (I also find it kind of mind-boggling that people sometimes claim they have dyslexia and thus use text-speak, I'd have thought normal spelling would be easier for them than text!)
Basically I've learnt to be more tolerant of other's shortcomings in basic English than I used to be. But I definately think sometimes posts need to be easier to understand, wether you use conventional grammar to do this or something less formal that works for you.
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