Why do people hate grammar?

I was browsing AF tonight and came across several posts that were headaches to read. submitted, for your entertainment, one post below. Read through it and count the number of periods, commas, or other common punctuation.

your right my d15 goes 7k before oil chages allways over 40mpg is not a race motor its for ecomany bust it again calling it gay while your chaging your oil twice i'm still cruising and yes someone has gotten one into the 10s damned fast for a lil motor thats while its the not the best motor its sure as hell takes 100s of thousands of miles gets you great gas works without any problems cheap as hell to maintain its a great for what it is just cause its not the fastest you shouldn't make comments to something you don't know about.

I'm not going to say who posted that, I don't want to single anyone out. It's not my intention to offend, but to inform and make the following plea-

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE use your periods and commas people. I'd like my hair to grow back, I'm tired of ripping it out translating some of the posts that are out there.

Hear hear. I read that quote and just though, what the fuck?

See my sig for Tazdev and mine's thoughts...

Oh, a bit like this little gem from Dave on MSN:

1Johnny Cuttooth says: fo sho


:iceslolan

Make you wonder,if they can't string a coherent sentence together,whether they actually have the earnings potential to purchase the kind of vehicles that they love to brag about. :shakehead

People who write like that are lazy. My guess is that most of those folks are going to be part of the "You want fries with that?" crowd for a long, long time.

Yeah, I know what you mean Yogs...but I'm quite lazy, and I still manage to get over there to the . when need be...

Example, a few summers ago, our TV remote broke...so I taped to yardsticks together and prodded the TV channel up/down button from afar...unweildy and inefficient as hell, but damnit! I wasn't going to move!

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE use your periods and commas people. I'd like my hair to grow back, I'm tired of ripping it out translating some of the posts that are out there.


Fo Shizzle my nizzle :sunglasse :biggrin:

People just spell everything like it sounds nowadays...Which is really aggravating because it might sound like one thing to one person, and something else to another.... :mad:

its quicker to shorten things.i dont use the right grammar cuz somethimes i feel like being lazy sorry.

see drifterX, despite the fact that "sometimes you feel like being lazy" your post was not a seven line sentance. people like you you are fine...

your post was not a seven line sentance. people like you you are fine...


...but the buggers who can't spell are really irritating...... :p

I'm surprised nobody has brought up the people that can seem to spell the words 'one' 'two' 'you' 'any' etc. Those people drive me nuts.

"U should go 2 the store"
"Can n e 1 hear me?"

You know that crap. Come on people, your not saving that much time by avoiding two keystrokes.

The ones that get me are those that bitch about one person's abbreviation of a word when they themselves can't spell very well anyway.
Seems like the pot calling the kettle black to me :rolleyes:

The ones that get me are those that bitch about one person's abbreviation of a word when they themselves can't spell very well anyway.
Seems like the pot calling the kettle black to me :rolleyes:

Was that aimed at me?

Was that aimed at me?

Not really, I have seen a lot of people with the same gripe.
I even deal with it at work where people misuse and mis-pronounce words (pronouncing height, "heith") and then they mock me because I pronounce a word differently.
It's like somebody bitching about spelling yet they themselves can't spell very well.

BTW, it's "come on" or "c'mon". "common" has a completely separate meaning :wink:

My fingers betrayed me, time to bust out the hammer.

My fingers betrayed me, time to bust out the hammer.

LOL, just a light rap on the knuckles should do it :iceslolan

Got bteetr, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh!

tahts aewomse!!! :bananasmi

Example, a few summers ago, our TV remote broke...so I taped to yardsticks together and prodded the TV channel up/down button from afar...unweildy and inefficient as hell, but damnit! I wasn't going to move!

Oh my word, that is hilarious. I laughed...a lot. I don't know why exactly, but probably because it sounds like something that I would do. Like when my roommate and I set up our dorm room so we wouldn't have to leave our chairs to get/use anything of importance in the room...the fridge, microwave, remote, computer, etc.

I find it rather entertaining when people insult my intelligence with grammar that would get you thrown off the short bus.

It's "you're," not "your," goddamnit. I ain't exactly qualified to be the grammar cop around here, though. Although it's no excuse, I'm one of the few to graduate from one of the lowest-achieving high schools in the state of Ohio, so the fact that I make this small of a number of errors blows even my mind.

Small things don't really matter too much, but when a paragraph of run-ons and mispellings make a post impossible to understand one's intentions, then yeah I sometimes wonder what type of person he/she is. It's very frustrating, but most of the time when you look to the left they usually only have 1-5 posts for some reason. I like the idea of only being able to hang out in some sort of "caged-off" noob forum before entering the rest of the AF world.

Small things don't really matter too much, but when a paragraph of run-ons and mispellings make a post impossible to understand one's intentions, then yeah I sometimes wonder what type of person he/she is. It's very frustrating, but most of the time when you look to the left they usually only have 1-5 posts for some reason. I like the idea of only being able to hang out in some sort of "caged-off" noob forum before entering the rest of the AF world.
LOL! And we can place bets on which noob will tear apart which other noob before they become full fledged AFians....!

haha! we could bet our post counts like money.
"I bet you 150 posts that JoeCRX will tear up D16masta for posting about his 20hp gain from an intake"
"you're on man, those things really do add that much"
:lol:

lmfao, look what I dug up:
Okay ure all morons, 1st of all b16a,is the exact same engine outta a stalk civic, it comes with 145 hp, an acura gs integ is basically the same which comes with 148 hp its a b18c3 a peice of crap with no v-tek, gsr, is a b18c4 which comes with 175 hp with v-tek, b18c5 is a type r engine stalk with 195hp with v-tek 8900rpm 168b ft of torque, or theirs the jdm b18c5 comes with 205 hp a redline of 9100 rpm and 171 lb ft of torque, and i have a jap spoon in my integ and its a b18c5 bored out like crazy, and got put in my car with no mods hitting 230 hp almost 10000 rpm and 191 lb ft of torque, costing me $4200.00 with trade in of stalk type r and put in for $2800.00 so about 7g's, and yes u have to take the whole engine apart to change the oil. its a bit#ch

lmfao, look what I dug up:
Okay ure all morons, 1st of all b16a,is the exact same engine outta a stalk civic, it comes with 145 hp, an acura gs integ is basically the same which comes with 148 hp its a b18c3 a peice of crap with no v-tek, gsr, is a b18c4 which comes with 175 hp with v-tek, b18c5 is a type r engine stalk with 195hp with v-tek 8900rpm 168b ft of torque, or theirs the jdm b18c5 comes with 205 hp a redline of 9100 rpm and 171 lb ft of torque, and i have a jap spoon in my integ and its a b18c5 bored out like crazy, and got put in my car with no mods hitting 230 hp almost 10000 rpm and 191 lb ft of torque, costing me $4200.00 with trade in of stalk type r and put in for $2800.00 so about 7g's, and yes u have to take the whole engine apart to change the oil. its a bit#ch
.....Stupifying.....

lmfao, look what I dug up:
Okay ure all morons, 1st of all b16a,is the exact same engine outta a stalk civic, it comes with 145 hp, an acura gs integ is basically the same which comes with 148 hp its a b18c3 a peice of crap with no v-tek, gsr, is a b18c4 which comes with 175 hp with v-tek, b18c5 is a type r engine stalk with 195hp with v-tek 8900rpm 168b ft of torque, or theirs the jdm b18c5 comes with 205 hp a redline of 9100 rpm and 171 lb ft of torque, and i have a jap spoon in my integ and its a b18c5 bored out like crazy, and got put in my car with no mods hitting 230 hp almost 10000 rpm and 191 lb ft of torque, costing me $4200.00 with trade in of stalk type r and put in for $2800.00 so about 7g's, and yes u have to take the whole engine apart to change the oil. its a bit#ch

You're telling me that your Integra hits 230 HP at 10,000 RPM... :lol2:
The S2000 redlines at around 9000, i don't care how bored out that block is, there's no way...i smell BS. Sounds to me like you've wasted a lot of money, if that's how much you've really spent.

lmfao, look what I dug up:
Okay ure all morons, 1st of all b16a,is the exact same engine outta a stalk civic, it comes with 145 hp, an acura gs integ is basically the same which comes with 148 hp its a b18c3 a peice of crap with no v-tek, gsr, is a b18c4 which comes with 175 hp with v-tek, b18c5 is a type r engine stalk with 195hp with v-tek 8900rpm 168b ft of torque, or theirs the jdm b18c5 comes with 205 hp a redline of 9100 rpm and 171 lb ft of torque, and i have a jap spoon in my integ and its a b18c5 bored out like crazy, and got put in my car with no mods hitting 230 hp almost 10000 rpm and 191 lb ft of torque, costing me $4200.00 with trade in of stalk type r and put in for $2800.00 so about 7g's, and yes u have to take the whole engine apart to change the oil. its a bit#ch

You're telling me that your Integra hits 230 HP at 10,000 RPM... :lol2:
The S2000 redlines at around 9000, i don't care how bored out that block is, there's no way...i smell BS. Sounds to me like you've wasted a lot of money, if that's how much you've really spent. And it's V-Tec, not V-tek. Variable timing and electronic lift control, not kontrol.

You're telling me that your Integra hits 230 HP at 10,000 RPM... :lol2:
The S2000 redlines at around 9000, i don't care how bored out that block is, there's no way...i smell BS. Sounds to me like you've wasted a lot of money, if that's how much you've really spent. And it's V-Tec, not V-tek. Variable timing and electronic lift control, not kontrol.


Uhmm... Josh, He was using that as an example... not his words...

Uhmm... Josh, He was using that as an example... not his words...

lol... i dont know what to say to him.

10K RPM? I bet money that even if this is true, it's either nowhere near streetable or has blown to shit as a result of careless tuning. Standing close to your typically volatile high-output, all-motor Honda on a dyno is an easy path to a Darwin award. Somewhere on Kazaa there's amatuer video of some village idiot's ITR putting a rod through not only, the head, but the steel hood!

You're telling me that your Integra hits 230 HP at 10,000 RPM... :lol2:
The S2000 redlines at around 9000, i don't care how bored out that block is, there's no way...i smell BS. Sounds to me like you've wasted a lot of money, if that's how much you've really spent. And it's V-Tec, not V-tek. Variable timing and electronic lift control, not kontrol.
I didn't say it, I copy/pasted from a different post.

I just hate the fact that some of the people that I talk to, they just can't spell for shit. I mean seriously they're like 16-18 and they still can't spell?! The hell is that about?

but yeah about the n00b thing.....

i seriously hate it when they #1 dig up posts from 2 years ago, #2 place stupid threads that promote events that they're having/websites....and a lot of them like to come on like they own the place and are disrespectful to alot of people even mods...i mean there was once this one n00b that when i said something in his thread to close it because it was a plug, he proceded to use my private e-mail and "try" to cuss me out! the rudeness of some n00bs i say!

I just hate the fact that some of the people that I talk to, they just can't spell for shit. I mean seriously they're like 16-18 and they still can't spell?! The hell is that about?

but yeah about the n00b thing.....

i seriously hate it when they #1 dig up posts from 2 years ago, #2 place stupid threads that promote events that they're having/websites....and a lot of them like to come on like they own the place and are disrespectful to alot of people even mods...i mean there was once this one n00b that when i said something in his thread to close it because it was a plug, he proceded to use my private e-mail and "try" to cuss me out! the rudeness of some n00bs i say!

there is no disrespect meant by this, but i was j/w what is so bad about bringing up old posts. i have seen a few people on here get ripped or it and i dont understand.

I could see if you brought up an old post for referance that it wouldn't be so bad. But when people use it like it's their own idea, they get slammed. Some old posts aren't worth bringing up either.

One reason for the lack of grammar in today's society is that schools stop teaching grammar at a young age. It's only in college when we write papers that we run into it again, which we all hate. After that we forget about it and get lazy. And some believe that you lose your self expression with proper grammar.

One reason for the lack of grammar in today's society is that schools stop teaching grammar at a young age. It's only in college when we write papers that we run into it again, which we all hate. After that we forget about it and get lazy. And some believe that you lose your self expression with proper grammar.
Yea, I agree. I talk to a couple of my old teachers, and they are replacing it with advanced math training that kids can't even comprehend. No wonder why more kids are failing out of school.

umm...

Keep in mind that some folks just can't spell, or are horrible at grammar and do not post in that manner just for the fun of it or to piss someone off. Some folks are bad at grammar, spelling, and punctuation rules - while others are horrible at math, science, or whatever else is out there. It just happens that you only see the grammar/'English' (as it's called in my hick-town) because it's a FORUM. An example: My husband is a financial genius (in my opinion) and damn smart w/technical stuff. But I have to spell check his reports for your/you're, our/are and the like. Yes, it’s one thing to get pissy at a post that's a 10 line paragraph with no capitalization or punctuation use...it's another to get pissy at someone because of slight issues...Feel free to get pissy, it's your right to get pissy...get pissy...perhaps find a little sensitivity...
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(YAY!! I actually had time to post something!! I frequent AF, but rarely have the time to 'talk back', y'all are the coolest) :sunglasse