People with poor grammar need not apply

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  • etoiles_argentees
    etoiles_argentees Posts: 2,827 Member
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    Kiss for the crown!
  • vizsla99
    vizsla99 Posts: 66 Member
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    Proper punctuation is important as well. It's the difference between helping your Uncle Jack, off a horse; and helping helping your Uncle jack-off a horse.
  • MissDevin
    MissDevin Posts: 608 Member
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    I am a Grammar Nazi and proud of it.
  • vbarrient
    vbarrient Posts: 52 Member
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    People aren't applying for a job on here. So what, some don't spell well. There may be a reason. They just want to lose weight like the rest of us not for you to correct their grammar. You probably right about jobs, but jobs discriminate against fat people too. If you don't understand them just move on. Good grief!
  • 3foldchord
    3foldchord Posts: 2,918 Member
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    Considering the job is to write manuals, I think proper grammar is a proper job requirement.

    My 19'year old took a writing class in college last semester. It was just a basic freshmen class. In the class they took a grammar quiz that gave them results for potential salary.
    The quiz was based on a study that cited that people with better grammar end up getting higher paying jobs.
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
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    1111000000111111110000011100011111000

    You crack me up!!!!! Lol... :tongue:
    1111000000111111110000011100011111000

    It's not nice to talk like that, even in binary code.

    How were you able to translate this malformed binary? When I wrote this in binary, it showed up in the finished comment as "how were yo". Then when I clicked edit, the full binary sentence was there.

    p.s. I just read all of the comments. I now know about the poor little kittens. :sad:
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
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    I cringe when people ignore punctuation, mispronounce simple words or insert extra words while reading out loud.

    I want to ask them, "do you have any comprehension of the text you just read? Thanks to your eloquence, I certainly don't."
  • 3foldchord
    3foldchord Posts: 2,918 Member
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    I cringe when people ignore punctuation, mispronounce simple words or insert extra words while reading out loud.

    I want to ask them, "do you have any comprehension of the text you just read? Thanks to your eloquence, I certainly don't."

    I do add or change words when I read.
    It's part of my dyslexia. Kinda annoying sometimes. But I usually have excellent comprehension.
    Unless I pre read the passage twice before reading it out load. I can usually get all the correct words in that case. When I was in grade school, I would count the kids ahead of me and count the paragraphs to get to what mine would be, then read and reread it until it was my turn. So I would read the correct words the correct way.
    But then have no idea what the text was about because I missed all the paragraphs the other kids read.
  • etoiles_argentees
    etoiles_argentees Posts: 2,827 Member
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    well, the majority of the time I'm typing on my phone so if you were my friend you'd delete me. Not worried.

    *this was to susank's post. :)
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
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    People aren't applying for a job on here. So what, some don't spell well. There may be a reason. They just want to lose weight like the rest of us not for you to correct their grammar. You probably right about jobs, but jobs discriminate against fat people too. If you don't understand them just move on. Good grief!
    If something is well written, I can read at 600-700 words a minute. If it's poorly written, it's more like 100 wpm. That's my handicap. I don't easily infer someone's meaning, so language needs to be much more precise for me to get from what someone says to what they mean. When you are writing to an audience it is selfish to write crappily. Doing so says, "my time is more important than the time of the hundreds of people who will read this."
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    Real geeks use hex. Poser! :tongue:
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
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    I cringe when people ignore punctuation, mispronounce simple words or insert extra words while reading out loud.

    I want to ask them, "do you have any comprehension of the text you just read? Thanks to your eloquence, I certainly don't."

    I do add or change words when I read.
    It's part of my dyslexia. Kinda annoying sometimes. But I usually have excellent comprehension.
    Unless I pre read the passage twice before reading it out load. I can usually get all the correct words in that case. When I was in grade school, I would count the kids ahead of me and count the paragraphs to get to what mine would be, then read and reread it until it was my turn. So I would read the correct words the correct way.
    But then have no idea what the text was about because I missed all the paragraphs the other kids read.


    Thank you for sharing.
    Perhaps I should clarify that a majority of the time, it seems like these people do not want to even make the effort to read correctly. They had even volunteered to read out loud, but still didn't seem to care or try.
    I would say you care enough to put in the effort to read correctly. :smile:
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
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    well, the majority of the time I'm typing on my phone so if you were my friend you'd delete me. Not worried.

    *this was to susank's post. :)

    In my humble opinion :wink: , texts and public oration standards differ.
  • slkehl
    slkehl Posts: 3,801 Member
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    I have terrible grammar. My English classes in middle school and high school focused on reading but not writing. I think I wrote maybe one paper a year and never got much feedback. I'm about to graduate from college with a science degree and can write decently in scientific language. But a cover letter for a job application? Emails to coworkers? It's a problem. I just took the GRE and was above the 90th percentile in both the reading and math sections, but my writing score sucked. Idk, maybe I need to take a class or something.
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
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    I have terrible grammar. My English classes in middle school and high school focused on reading but not writing. I think I wrote maybe one paper a year and never got much feedback. I'm about to graduate from college with a science degree and can write decently in scientific language. But a cover letter for a job application? Emails to coworkers? It's a problem. I just took the GRE and was above the 90th percentile in both the reading and math sections, but my writing score sucked. Idk, maybe I need to take a class or something.


    If it makes you feel better, grammar was pounded into me in Catholic grade and high school.
    I got A's in college English but struggled through my science courses for my nursing major.
    To this day I am also a math retard. :tongue:
  • etoiles_argentees
    etoiles_argentees Posts: 2,827 Member
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    well, the majority of the time I'm typing on my phone so if you were my friend you'd delete me. Not worried.

    *this was to susank's post. :)

    In my humble opinion :wink: , texts and public oration standards differ.
    orator [ˈɒrətə]
    n
    1. a public speaker, esp one versed in rhetoric
    2. a person given to lengthy or pompous speeches
    3. (Law) Obsolete the claimant in a cause of action in chancery

    This IS MFP, I'm not worried. If someone on here doesn't like my lack of sentence structure it doesn't bother me a bit. I have other priorities in my life... if you are bothered by reading someone's post because of it, don't read it. Simple.

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