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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Pubick??
:D
Same as all the know it all “Nit Pickers “
on hobby sites
Why does everyone keep saying that?
I was taught to say:
"If I was on fire, I would burn, but if I were you I would just ignore it."
The distinction is that being on fire is possible. My being you is not possible. Several years ago I tried to verify this usage but ended up just confused. What is your rule?
You mean Pennsylvania the state of yinz?
I live in W.MD so it’s properly “It needs a’fixin’”.
:)
In addition to that there’s not only ... as well.
My buddy, My buddy.....
I’ve found there mostly, jerks, alot and quit often
William Safire wrote a great column called “On Language”. I loved it. I also loved the fact that he called Hillary Clinton a congenital liar in 1996. If only the world had listened.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/08/opinion/essay-blizzard-of-lies.html
I would say “If I were on fire...” because I am not on fire and have no intention of setting myself of fire. If I am on fire please throw water on me. I need to look that one up in my grammar book.
#9 That pretty much sucks
― Mark Twain
“grammer” was mistspeled. It is “gramerr”
You truly are a cunning linguist!
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