freedom of speech......

If your bank sent you a statement and it was all in txt language, or you got a formal letter from someone and it was written like that, would you consider it rude? If so, why not a messageboard? Just because it's the Internet doesn't give a person the excuse to be lazy. Yes, you might just suggest I ignore people who do that - but if we always did that and never said anything then the whole board would descend into that crap. I'd rather this forum, which has been a great community through which many of us have made good friends, be presented in a way that would have new visitors think we are nice, intelligent people, and not lazy idiots.

Honestly, I wouldnt consider your examples rude - just plain weak. I'd certainly not write back in a smartass kinda way, pointing out the senders grammar errors. Nevertheless its not the same as a messageboard where peoples freedom of speech arent as limited as formal statements or letters from banks etc.

By ignoring posts like this, the poster automatically finds out that his/her threads arent being read/commented, probably because of the the way he/she wrote the initial post.

My point is..no matter if the initial post is lazy, un-userfriendly to read etc or not....theres really no reason to ruin a perfectly relevant thread because of such little things. And yes I call this a "little thing" as I honestly didnt think it was that badly written.

Dont make a fuzz buddy im also have a bad grammar ... and if nobody will listen to you and your sad about... im all ears buddy..PM me

Bad grammar and no brains that's all what Mookie is. We are still waiting here for the WinterBBQ, you greedy bastard.

Actually Iceman and Thomas should PM you to correct your grammar - it doesnt bother me

It's the same thing. It's called common courtesy. If you're dumb enough not to consider other people, be it on a message board or in a supermarket, you deserve to be told about it. If you're a retard or otherhow impaired, then it's a different thing, but that's usually obvious straight off the bat. If you're not... well, you reap what you sow.

Ice

But it's not just because it's the Internet ... you'd expect a formal email to be written properly as well. But this isn't a formal situation. Its just like how I would adopt different ways of speaking when, for example, attending a job interview, as opposed to when I'm just talking to friends. It's rather like you talking to someone in an informal situation, and them saying to you "I don't like the way you talk, I demand you talk in a formal manner or else I won't talk to you any more". Would you obey them, or would your response be "who the hell are you to tell me how to talk?!"?

When I , and other users on this board that don't have English as a first language can write and communicate better in English than someone who has English as their first language then that person is lame.

And come to think of it this makes complete sense aswell.

I think I remember the post you guys are talking about but I'm not sure.

There is a big difference between formal and colloquial speaking and this type of writing. It'd be like a person abbreviating their words in normal speech and mis-pronouncing words.