Posted on 04/06/2016 1:20:07 PM PDT by Morgana
Scientists have found that people who constantly get bothered by grammatical errors online have "less agreeable" personalities than those who just let them slide.
And those friends who are super-sensitive to typos on your Facebook page? Psychological testing reveals they're generally less open, and are also more likely to be judging you for your mistakes than everyone else. In other words, they're exactly who you thought they were. That sounds pretty obvious, but this is actually the first time researchers have been able to show that a person's personality traits can actually determine how they respond to typos and grammatical errors, and it could teach us a lot about how people communicate (or miscommunicate) online.
"This is the first study to show that the personality traits of listeners/readers have an effect on the interpretation of language," said lead researcher Julie Boland from the University of Michigan. "In this experiment, we examined the social judgments that readers made about the writers."
The researchers took 83 participants and asked them all to read email responses to an ad for a housemate, which either contained no errors or had been altered to include typos (e.g. "teh" instead of "the") or grammatical mix-ups, such as too/to or it's/its.
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No kidding!!!
That bothers me as well.
I agree, and there are a few others on my list for no capitalization. :-)
I won’t capitalize islam or muslim either.
Word of the day: Sprachgefühl.
The grammar rules are there to make communication easier and more accurate.
If you have to stop to consider every its/it’s, there/their/they’re, will/well, than/then, number/amount, that/who, less/fewer, non-possessive ‘s, etc., that’s not efficient and those with sprachgefühl just quit reading.
Me, either.
That's the proper thing to do only when you are referring to a specific one such as biden or obamao.
“Gee, Mr. Kramden, I didn’t realize you were the jerk.”
Ping. , ! ,
You’re a buddy :)
I think I learned MLA. Maybe it was APA. Maybe it was made-up?
its and it’s
I had no idea that it was proper!
That does take some of the fun out of it.
No study necessary - I knew that all along. If you’re a copy editor working with a document going into print, that’s one thing - but if you’re a poster “correcting” other people’s posts (of course, ignoring what they are saying), you need to get a life.
Sometimes the error comes from spell check or auto-correct, sometimes it comes from dictation, and sometimes the person really doesn’t know how to spell or write it, but you know what they mean. The most I ever do is spell things correctly or use the correct word in my response - but I never correct people. And I’m a professional linguist.
I would agree that people that worry about the first are jerks. But people that are bothered by the latter are just lovers of the English language.
That was an improper use of an ellipsis.
... ;)
“Would of”
{{{shudder}}}
It was pert-near a faux pas.
This yere thred do be right up’n yer alley.
I love that show.
lol
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