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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/22/2007 11:03:35 PM | OP
Yes I would still respond to them, regardless of bad grammar. If they misspell some words, that means nothing really to me, they might be a really nice person. Besides, someone who sends a perfectly spelled email to you, what does that really in honesty tell you? On a computer it really means nothing except that for many people, they happen to take a moment and give Microsoft Office Word a moment to do a spell check and correct it all. Don't pass up a chance on someone just because they spell some words wrong, IMO. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/23/2007 5:23:11 AM | I will check their profile, and if the poor grammar, etc., continues there, I will send them a polite thanks but no thanks email. While the occasional typing error is to be expected, the use of "u r," Im, their instead of they're, etc., is enough to make me pass the man by.
I have been doing crosswords and other word puzzles since the age of four, and acknowledge that I am an excellent speller. That is probably where my pickiness comes from.
Having a university-level education does not guarantee that you will have either good grammar or a good grasp of the English language. My sister edits Masters Theses for a living, along with the occasional paper that a professor is planning on either having published or presented at a conference. She is occasionally so shocked at their misuse of phrases, superlatives, etc., that she will read a few lines to me. It is amazing that some of these people have made it through 20 or more years of education and still can't put a sentence/paragraph/paper together properly. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/23/2007 9:50:10 AM | I can accept a few typos . .
But if they consistently transpose . .
- Woman and Women -
- There - their - they're -
..and other grammaticals . .
I tend to have second thoughts . .
..Not to cast dispersions . . it's just a matter of basic education . .
. . or is it a lack of G-A-D about it . . ? | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/23/2007 6:10:42 PM | | i agree with the person on the first page of replies that said if its bad grammar then yes he will respond. if its misspelled words then no he will not. its called dictionary.com ppl... a lot of times i purposely do not use correct punctuation because i am in a hurry while im typing on the internet. this post, case point. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/23/2007 6:44:28 PM | I respond. I make typos and spell things wrong from time to time. I sometimes even make grammatical errors, but it's not because I don't know better. I wouldn't care if they didn't know how to communicate through writing very well. It's not what matters. Some people have typing "styles" in which they purposely misspell things and some seriously don't know how to spell or use words. I wouldn't let that be a make or break issue. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/23/2007 8:16:11 PM |
Also using 'i' instead of 'I' feels lazy.
Just so you know, to someone who's been doing email a long time, lower-case is just proper netiquette. Upper case is considered SHOUTING. So when i tell you "i've been longing to meet you", i'm speaking in normal tone of voice, versus a very loud "I". They/we only use upper case with someone else's name, as a courtesy.
The habit may have originated with lazy techno-nerds, but it's part of the culture for a whole generation of email veterans.
HTH - grant
(*) "Hope That Helps"  | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/23/2007 8:24:29 PM | | That's a tough call, really. Generally, I would say I am not open to that, but I had a best friend who was terrible at grammar, but he managed to graduate with a degree in physics and chemistry. His father was a teacher. I don't know why his grammar was horrible. If a woman is generally pretty smart, has something to say, and I mean really shows she is pretty smart, then I would maybe overlook that, but I think how you write is important and you should care about how you write and speak.... I prefer someone who writes well, but I wouldn't simply use that to judge a person's intelligence or what have you by that... | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/23/2007 8:42:13 PM | I'm glad someone else brought this up. I am, by no means, a good speller, but I'm ok with grammar. If someone writes so poorly that you have to read a sentence four times just to figure out what they are trying to say, I don't hold much hope for a relationship. I may still respond, but it's very hard to take them seriously. I pay more attention to a persons writing than I do their picture.
The thing that REALLY irks me is if it is obvious they haven't bothered to read my profile before contacting me. I don't expect them to memorize it, but if they haven't paid attention to the key points, it puts me off.
Oh, and I think that they should have a spellcheck on this site. I'm pretty lost without it.  | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/24/2007 6:20:47 PM | I really can't deal with it. It is one of my pet peeves!
And you really can tell if it's just a typo or an occasional misspelled word, (we all do that from time to time, nobody's perfect).
If someone is just uneducated or mentally challenged, you can tell that too, and if you are educated and smart, you are not going to be compatable. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/30/2007 5:10:23 PM | I do not understand it, either. The people that misspell words are rude to those that they write to, have no respect for themselves or others, and it's just plain lazy! Doesn't anyone know what "spell check" is for? You can judge someone that doesn't care for their first impression, by knowing they aren't there for you, they're there for themselves! Boy, I just included some "pet-peeves" by accident! Sorry. Also, the misspelling of "you're" as "your" and "definitely" as "definately." Don't forget all those abbreviations! I sympathize with all the people that take pride in themselves.
David. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/30/2007 5:41:42 PM | OH I definately misspell and wonder if it is the way we pronounce some of the words. Definitely, I pronounce with an a sound...hmmm...grammar I know I misspell grammer all the time. I pronounce that er. Boy, I really think that I need to start spell checking my posts, emails, and tons of other things. I just hope that I haven't sent any notes to my kids' schools that were misspelt. I guess I have fallen under the "just plain lazy" comment.
My apologies to one and all for being a lazy writer. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 12/1/2007 3:33:17 PM | | While I do tend to use commas uncontrollably and have occasionally misspelled or left out a necessary word, I too am turned off by gross destruction of the English language. A typo here and there is one thing. However, if the spelling, grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and word choice are all horrible and I have to read a sentence 4 to 5 times to decipher the meaning, then it's just not worth my time. Call me a snob, but last time I checked communication is key to a relationship. How can a relationship even start if I can't communicate with a person. | |
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