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¿Question #492?
ensor: How important is spelling and grammar on the Geek?

Horchatax: Pretty important imo
0Shea0: vary
Woelf: It's important everywhere, for people to avoid looking like idiots.
samalvor: pew pew!
oldhoss: It's called taking creative license.
cowboycw: I try to spell and say everything properly
PzVIE: Given the fact that so many bloody non-native English speakers are around, not so important :)
jreicher: Hugely important. Most of us are probably finicky about such things-- probably stemming from the fact that we're all looking for loop-holes in game rules.
bcooperok: No so much, unless it is egrigous.
car2n: Nto relly all thatt muchc,
ricardofo: 5-5
Felimid: If you're playing MtG, spell-ing *very* important. :) And since my grammar lives in Texas, definite she no be on Geek, you no? :)
jessitron: More important than on sites full of average people.
42ndSSD: Whut?
Evonine: Should be more important than it is. Some geekquestions don't make sense because of bad grammer usage.
bane221: Very. On a scale of 1 to 10: A lot.
wittdooley: HAHA. Very. I learned this over the past two days.
scriptorum: It is not very important. You can get by well while tripping over your linguistic shoelaces. Doing so might garner you some occasional scorn, but nothing that a healthy apathy can't cure.
ardenswv: knot vury mutch
El Hidalgo: Correction...How important ARE spelling and grammar on the Geek?
spamwise: Its xtreamly that weigh
jeffwolfe: Apparently, not very.
DHEK: As important as anywhere else.
DarkAvatar: wut u talken aboot.
TheArchAngel: Would make it easier
slowcorner: To me, very. To 20%, not at all.
Elf__Man: notveryimportantatallreallyasfarasansweringanyofthegeekquestionsisconcerned. (that was actually harder to type than I thought it would be.)
diemacher: Shows your attention to detail, or lack thereof
eddyspaghetti: Not important enough.
aleo09: not very
SquarePegIX: Important enough to try it.
rootbeer: If you don't want to get yelled at by me in GeekQuestions, pretty bloody important. A couple guys just got laid into back there...
Beyak: apparently not very, and I don't care
sanbikinoraion: Moderately. Consistent typos are most annoying imho.
KentuckyKid: Reasonably low importance.
andsoerinsaid: Not very, I think there are more important things in life to worry about.
unifex: very
captpackrat: vary importent
chockle: It is as important as anywhere else.
skars: Depends on if its personal responses or glossary terms heh
ZiggyZambo: Reasonably
LochNESS: You can wish for perfect spelling, but this is not possible with the huge amount of 'non native English speaking people' Still you can expect proper punctuation and capital letters.
bigbadsteve: not vry
l7productions: Important
rawdawg: Y do u aks?
Peechy: gramer is evrythign in th egeeK
Helenoftroy: not at all
joebelanger: Relax.
RandomGraham: Very
DS615: Verrie importanant.?
dietevil: I personally find it important, but I can tell a lot of others do not.
davidwpa: I dont no y doo u assc
Winter Wolf: its vary impotenet two mee tat Da, grmmr is good and. sPeellinG be gud .2
Platinum Dragon: Just as important as everywhere else, particularly text-messaging.
Hossen: I try to keep mine correct
Superdeathflame: I think spelling and grammar is just as important to the Greek as any other nationality.
haraggan: It's not a matter of life and death, but it's appreciated
LemonyFresh: Quite
SenorOcho: OMG spellizing is teh pwnz0r.
Fawkes: It's "How important *ARE* spelling and grammar on the Geek?"
Golux13: Spelling and grammar are important everywhere.
shizzane: pwetty impotent
POvidiusNaso: It's only a mild distraction for dopes like me.
Unitbuster: Grammer [sic] and speling [sic] are verra [sic] important like [sic].
BrokenNails_NZ: Dunno. I wondered if your user name was meant to be "censor"?
brainrob: As long as it's 99% okay I'll not make a fuss
Dorque: Vary.
chaosbreaker: bery berry importunt
Mike A: Don't you mean "How important _are_ spelling and grammar on the Geek?"
erli: Depends on who gets annoyed
Calloravion: Their esssential!
CharlieWonka: People should try
jellospike: Noht immmporhtent
Great Dane: Pretty ixpowtanq
leece: Well, I guess as long as we're all understandable and make an effort. And remember that we are all from different countries.
ssmooth: Important to some people, not to others
skrutsch: I think it's an 8 out of 10. (10 being essential.)
JimPAX: That depends. Do you want to sound like a dumbass in print, too?
Redneon: Apparently not very.
familygaming: I wish people would be a little more careful with grammer, spelling, etc. A little is understandable, but people who make no effort are hard to read...
dakarp: Moderately so.
The Unbeliever: 42
Sceadeau: Quesion, anyone?
Lord_Prussian: It's as important as it is anywhere else that people want to communicate using a written language and to be understood.
2amp: no everyone has english as first language. look at the americans - we haven't spoken it in years. just be tolerant of others mistakes as i hope they'll be tolerant of mine...
CapAp: Vary.
Karlsen: Not important enough
Cavedog_pdx: I think it's important for everyone to at least try but I'm not going to chase anyone away who hasn't mastered the English language.
AWildEep: Apparently not very. I'm still a user.
nerotora: Not too important. After all internet is an international medium and we can't expect averyone to be fluent in English.
rawk: 2
TimTheEnchanter: not very, many of us here aren't americans or british (or australians,canadians...)
Asmoridin: Grammar is teh r0x0rz. So yes, preferably important.
hpox: Vary
nexttothemoon: Somewhat yes...as we are all clearly a higher class of lifeform and should strive to achieve at least a modicum of respectability in all we do so as to be a beacon to all on the internet of what they can also someday come close to achieving.
RandallPeek: Although content rules, spelling and grammar are very important in making sure that content is understandable.
CameronL: vary impurent
batman: Very important. It shows how much you care about what you are writing.
WasQ: Ok, ok. I try my best, but my english isn't perfect as I want to be... ;P
jens_hoppe: Important here, as well as elsewhere
AlorielLelyn: Very important, especially in submissions. Hwoever, in GeekQuestion, it's not thatimportant :P (actually it drives me crazy sometimes...)
Favre4MVP: Verry
Ilikegames: Verry; further;more, semicolon; abuse is a heinous crime;
filnari: Those who spell badly should be shamed.
[Deleted user]: Very
Styro: People should make an effort to do their best. People should assume others are doing their best.
tragicpoet: I'm alright with phonically correct
gnomehome: Judge for yourself.
Chris__M: Teribly impotent
erfalucho: to me, somewhat important. to everybody's else; it seem too me dat it don't mater :)
fizzix: Speling is teh bets ting evar!
rochs77: Not important at all if you look at many of the entries.
Johan: I thikn is it vrey impotent
puffinge: 7
shippert: Important enough to take seriously, not important enough to get upset about
mfrederick: Very. It's always important, except during IM.
Ryno8: Depends on how far up your crack your undies are wedged.
GuyHill: Depends if the writer is a native speaker
Mordachai: I would say - very!
Bluenose: lol
DangerMouse: 7
m_r_tyler: Obvisoulsly, speeling cownts fur notting hear.
Snooze_uk: speeling and grammar v v importnat
isolated: Jsut as improtant as it is on teh rest of the inertnet.
chaddyboy_2000: Prety Impotent.
geberus: somwhat
netfilterz: People should at least try
viogression: Moderately.
louiseh: Not very
Ludocrazy: It's importamt to some posters.
Mosse: Esential
StuartF: Not very
BobDodgerBlue: moderately
Shakar: Pretty much, it's needed to understant the other.
IngredientX: The fate of humnaity rests in it's balance! (Challenge: there are three errors in this answer. Can you spot them all?)
ejmowrer: Nto too vary.
AnakinOU: ain't to impotent
snoozefest: not enough
Debate: Only in so much as I look down on poor spellers.
Denise: Well, as important as it is anywhere. I can accept it when people write casually, the way we do in normal conversation. But ignoring punctuation and capitalization completely, and coming up with cutesy ways to spell common words simply shows the world you are lazy and poorly educated.
Jim_P: Yes
jttm: I am teh best speler here :P
hooded_paladin: Same as every website - show that you are relaxed, but mature.
scribidinus: It is more tolerable in fast paced short exchanges. Longer more serious posts like articles and reviews are harder to take seriously when loose is used for lose, which is spelled wich and so on.
Aldie: doesn't seem that important.
Blackwind: Whats that?
Eric Haas: How much do you care if you are understood?
djlg: Wots are speling n grama?
coolio: Very important if you want me to read and respect your post
CortexBomb: Important enough to be as careful as possible, not important enough to flame people over
HMS_Resolution: I think it's pretty important, although I'm pretty forgiving when it comes to Our Friends In Foreign Lands.
TamiWhitsett: eh
janiera: I can deal with a few errors, but if it gets too bad, I won't read it anymore.
Flyspeck23: Seeing that it's pretty much international, not that much.
UhhhClem: Depends on whether or not you want me to take anything you say seriously.
Reloaded: seems to be up there
LudesFactor: i don't know how important it is, but it seems that most of the Geeks have a very very good command of both
MisterCranky: Not nearly important enough. This has been further exacerbated by Alan Moon's recent comments deriding those of us who strive for verbal clarity.
skelebone: Much like other online forums, it's is not necessarily paramount, but nice when people take the time to spell and use good grammar.
Friendless: I will rate you lower if you're incoherent
seppo21: Speling and gramer are very importent evrywhere. It lets us no whom the relly dumb ones are and ignor them.
ensor: It's "How important ARE spelling and grammar on the Geek," dumbass..
ynnen: It's nice but not necessary. Given the broad demographics (and geographics) of the users, some goofage is expected and accepted.
ValJor: Spelling and grammar are important everywhere, they are a mirror of who you are
CDRodeffer: If something is jibberish, then there's no point. So I say both are very important.