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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That was a run on sentence.
LOL!
Your period should be inside the quotation marks.
No. People who constantly make grammar mistakes do so because they went to, or are attending “pubick Skools”
Damn!
OK, I scanned the article for typos and misused words. There are none. I give the authors a 100.
Laz you never have bad grammar, you have unlimited colorful metaphors.
I was being gentle with Al because I didn’t want to dishearten and you run over him like a steamroller.
No wonder he’s so shy.
Just trying to help. :)
“get bothered by grammatical errors online have “less agreeable” personalities “
There’s no need to put ‘less agreeable’ in quotations.
Normal people have found that scientists are pretty much jerks (especially them there ones what pontificate and preach the phony gospel of people-powered global warming/climate change, and the ones looking for a cure for the common cold).
What’s a meta for?
Most or all posters make a mistake now and then and most are probably typos.
And some posters will use an entire new message simply to correct an error in a previous post, even if it was only one word.
Just think, what would the threads look like if everyone used an new message to correct every minor typo or error?
Maybe a good policy is: don’t comment on others posting errors, or grammatical mistakes. And don’t use a new message to correct an error unless it changed the meaning of your post.
Don’t worry about it, just as long as Laz keep them coming we will keep laughing.
Here is a handy guide for all you jerks out there:
GRAMMAR POLICE: 12 MISTAKES NEARLY EVERYONE MAKES
As more and more organizations join the owned media way of marketing, the grammar police seem to be in greater force.
Poor Sam Fiorella. Every time he writes something, he asks three or four of us to make sure he isn’t going to be crucified by the grammar police. It’s become quite comical and we enjoy giving him a hard time about it.
But he’s not alone. Many business leaders stress about writing anything at all, for fear of having incorrect grammar that will be made fun of across the web.
Between not knowing correct grammar and the text lexicon, it’s no wonder people are fearful of not just writing, but publishing, their work.
While I am certainly no Grammar Girl, I have found there are mistakes nearly everyone makes, particularly when writing for the web.
All Hail the Grammar Police!
1.Affect vs. effect. The easiest way to remember the difference between the two is affect means “to influence.” So if you’re going to influence something, you will have an affect. If it’s the result of something, it’s an effect.
2.The Oxford comma. In a series of three or more terms, you should use what’s referred to as the Oxford comma. This means you should have a comma before the word “and” in a list. For instance: The American flag is red, white, and blue. Many people debate this, but I’m a believer in it because there are times when you don’t have the extra comma and the sentence doesn’t make sense. I prefer to err on the side of having the Oxford in there.
3.Commas, in general. And speaking of commas, slow down when you’re writing and read your copy out loud. You don’t want to make this mistake: Let’s eat grandma vs. let’s eat, grandma. Poor grandma will be eaten if you forget the comma.
4.Their, they’re, and there. You’d think everyone learned this rule in fourth grade, but it’s a very common mistake. Use “there” when referring to a location, “their” to indication possession, and “they’re” when you mean to say “they are.”
5.Care less. The dismissive “I could care less” you hear all the time is incorrect. If you could care less, that means there is more you could care less about the topic. Most people omit the “not” in that phrase. It should be, “I couldn’t care less.”
6.Irregardless. This word doesn’t exist. It should be regardless.
7.Nauseous. How many times have you said you felt nauseous? This is incorrect. You feel nauseated. Nauseous means something is sickening to contemplate.
8.Your and you’re. Another mistake you see in people’s social media profiles and in the content they create is not correctly using “your” and “you’re.” If you’re meaning to say “you are,” the correct word is “you’re” (like at the beginning of this sentence). Otherwise the word is “your.”
9.Fewer vs. less. Another common mistake, “less” refers to quantity and “fewer” to a number. For instance, Facebook has fewer than 5,000 employees.
10.Quotation marks. Among great debate, people ask all the time whether or not punctuation belongs inside or outside quotation marks. It belongs inside.
11.More than vs. over. I’m pretty sure the advertising agency created this grammatical error. Instead of saying, “We had more than 50 percent growth” in ad copy, “over” allows for more space. So they say, “We had over 50 percent growth.” Drives. Me. Crazy.
12.Me vs. I. I was reading something by a big muckety muck the other day and the copy read, “This year has brought a big personal development for my wife and I…” No, no, no! If you were going to say that without the mention of your wife, you wouldn’t say, “This year has brought a big personal development for I.” You would say “me.” So this year has brought a big personal development for my wife and me.
There are so many grammar mistakes made today, The Elements of Style is on its fourth edition. Also check out the AP Stylebook. While most business writers don’t abide by those rules, most PR professionals do.
Having a copy of both (and referring to them) and asking an editor for help (even if it’s informal like Sam does), you’ll never have to worry about the grammar police.
- See more at: http://www.socialmediatoday.com/content/grammar-police-12-mistakes-nearly-everyone-makes#sthash.roCfKJns.dpuf
What, also irritates me, is the, punctuation police who are always, complaining; about. Sentence fragments.
His journey from Phil to Tandy had just begun.
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