Lies!

[elwen]

A little under 50% of respondents to the current GameFAQs poll claim they try to use correct grammar and spelling in all their online messages. THEY'RE ALL LIARS! I don't think you can get much less meticulous than I am and still be telling the truth, because I've been getting sloppier lately as well. The other possibility, I suppose, is that all these perfect English majors just never post anything anywhere because they're too busy proofreading their homework or something. But there's always time to answer the GameFAQs poll!

And not to be sexist or anything, but it was established at some point that some ridiculous percentage, like 90%, of the GameFAQs poll respondents are male. That makes me even more convinced that most of them are lying.

Okay, you can all flame me now.

Someday, I will resume having meaningful posts . . . but today is not that day!

Comments

[ling84.livejournal.com]

Hey, they just recently completed a study that shows that women are more likely to treat online messages and IMs as written compositions, while men are more apt to treat IM, etc as spoken conversation.

Unless 50% of the respondents are "game widows" whose boyfriends/spouses left the poll window open while taking a bathroom break, they're all LIARS!!! :)

[azabaro.livejournal.com]

Since the poll only asks if they try to use correct grammar and spelling, they could be telling the truth if they take "try" to mean "put forth at least a minimal effort" (as opposed to "do my best" or something similar). Alternately, they could be doing their best and just be that awful with grammar and spelling (and too dim to use spellcheckers).

But your interpretation does seem more likely than either of mine.

[nendil.livejournal.com]

Maybe there just not knolegable about correct grammer and spelling i mean its not like its easy or anything.

(Ouch, that was painful.)