People with poor grammar need not apply

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  • Hezzietiger1
    Hezzietiger1 Posts: 1,256 Member
    1111000000111111110000011100011111000

    Apparently I am a real geek because in an attempt to convert this I quickly recognized that you are 3 bits short. I guess that is the binary example of poor grammar?

    Epic fail
  • Hezzietiger1
    Hezzietiger1 Posts: 1,256 Member
    1111000000111111110000011100011111000

    What does this mean in binary? Havn't brushed up lately. Or should I say "I haven't brushed up lately?"

    I have no idea!! I saw that the OP had binary in his user name. This was my attempt to be a smart *kitten*. I'm not smart enough for this thread! ;)
  • hanga10
    hanga10 Posts: 25
    Good english has went :yawn:
  • olong
    olong Posts: 255 Member
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    Awww! Poor kittens!!!!
  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
    I like grammar.
  • Erisad
    Erisad Posts: 1,580
    Proper grammar is sexy.

    Hell yes. :heart:
  • The worst offenders are guys with their online dating profiles!
  • WifeNMama
    WifeNMama Posts: 2,876 Member
    One of my duties as a professor's assistant was to grade essays. You have no idea how much fun I had, with red ink everywhere
  • Faye_Anderson
    Faye_Anderson Posts: 1,495 Member
    grammer.jpg
  • silvergurl518
    silvergurl518 Posts: 4,123 Member
    all those people who think they know what their talking about really better loose the 'tude. i mean, i should just say to them, "what makes you're grammar so awesome? your the worst grammar-abuser on the net!" but that'd just be wasting my time.

    aight. /end horrible grammar

    :)
  • collinj8
    collinj8 Posts: 98 Member
    Nevertheless, they started a sentence with the word "And."
  • jlburke2
    jlburke2 Posts: 28 Member
    http://www.lifehacker.com/5930680/i-wont-hire-people-who-use-poor-grammar-heres-why

    I also know some people think grammar isn't important at all, or worse, used as a tool to make people feel poorly about themselves.

    Should the person who authored the sentence above really be complaining about grammar?
  • KombuchaCat
    KombuchaCat Posts: 834 Member
    What about my terrible spelling, MFP doesn't have spell check and the computer does not allow me to completely think on my own anymore!
  • jackpotclown
    jackpotclown Posts: 3,275 Member
    In-Before-the-Lock.gif \m/
  • Amazon_Who
    Amazon_Who Posts: 1,092 Member
    What about my terrible spelling, MFP doesn't have spell check and the computer does not allow me to completely think on my own anymore!
    I love spell check.:heart:
    Most browsers have a spell check add-on or extension available as a download.
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,031 Member
    Loving grammar and being a nazi about it are two different things. I would never correct someone other than my children.
    :heart:
  • jenj1313
    jenj1313 Posts: 898 Member
    http://www.lifehacker.com/5930680/i-wont-hire-people-who-use-poor-grammar-heres-why

    I also know some people think grammar isn't important at all, or worse, used as a tool to make people feel poorly about themselves.

    And don't forget syntax.
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    I love this quote:

    "Good grammar is credibility, especially on the internet. In blog posts, on Facebook statuses, in e-mails, and on company websites, your words are all you have. They are a projection of you in your physical absence. And, for better or worse, people judge you if you can't tell the difference between their, there, and they're."


    Their's a difference??
    :wink:
  • etoiles_argentees
    etoiles_argentees Posts: 2,827 Member
    Whoa, who brought this to life?
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    Loving grammar and being a nazi about it are two different things. I would never correct someone other than my children.
    :heart:

    Why bump a 5 month old thread?
  • etoiles_argentees
    etoiles_argentees Posts: 2,827 Member
    Kiss for the crown!
  • vizsla99
    vizsla99 Posts: 66 Member
    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
    I am a Grammar Nazi and proud of it.
  • vbarrient
    vbarrient Posts: 52 Member
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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: