Is bad grammar a big turn off for you? (1 Viewer)

[Midnight]

For me, yes. Especially if they can't differentiate between their/they're/there and you're/your. But if English isn't their first language, not at all. You?

 

[Jimimis]

Everything’s a turn off unless you’re jimin

 

[Ahsoka]

My favorite part of being a mod is when I get permission to correct grammar
I do understand its not everyones first language I just like how proper grammar sounds better

 

[lexus]

Yeah. I will admit that sometimes I get my grammar wrong without thinking about it, but seeing native English speakers using certain words incorrectly drives me nuts.

 

[VillageIdiot]

It drives me so crazy.
A few errors here and there are fine but if it's to the point where it's borderline incoherent, I get so annoyed

 

[perhapz]

Definitely (speaking of my first language, Portuguese, tho). But I think rather than bad grammar being a turn off, finding a person with amazing knowledge of the Portuguese language makes me 10x more interested.

My English is average, so sorry if one of my mistakes were a turn off for any of you in the past

 

[Vampire]

I feel like it just depends on the severity of the bad grammar. lol

 

[xuxixi]

only when im reading

 

[trulychoi]

Not really. Unless it gets to the point where I literally can't understand a single thing you're saying- then idc

not that I can judge anyway

 

[Mew]

Not particularly. If we're talking about texting and forum post its fine as long as it's cohorent, considering i'm intelligent enough to understand what they mean, there would be no point to ask them to fix it. If its not i would just ask them what they meant and correct them so its easier for them in the furture to communicate something. I don't expect people to type correctly (which can be long and tedious) considering majority of people who are native english speakers do not use correct grammar to begin with when they speak, more so localised colloquial speech.

Unless i'm proof reading an essay or a fanfic for someone else, i couldn't give two shits.

 

[Foxia]

Dutch language; YES. Some small mistakes can happen (it happens to me as well) but I just can't handle bad Dutch grammar (unless you're foreign and trying to learn because it's a difficult language)
My BF is excellent in Dutch and English grammar, so that's a big win.

I don't mind English

 

[Bom]

Bad grammar doesn't bother me much, especially online as you never know if English is someone's first language.
In real life though especially in work it does annoy me a bit. Like if you're going to send an email out at least make sure grammar and spelling are correct.

 

[bulletproof]

In romanian, yes. I graduated with a Communication and PR diploma so I tend to be a bit more careful about grammar and stuff. I mean a few mistakes don't bother me that much, there may be more difficult words, but there are people that don't use commas and just make a 3 rows phrase without any commas, question marks or anything
For non-natives is perfectly fine. I mean if I understand what they want to say, I think is cute that they're trying. I know I make a lot of English mistakes as well so... I'm sorry

 

[Wicked]

It depends, honestly. I mean... I'm not going to get nitpicky over every little mistake. Not everyone is going to be a perfect "English Major" poster child. I also 100% understand when English isn't someone's native language.

But if English is your native language and you can't differentiate between simple words like it's, its, they're, there, their, etc... we're gonna have a problem.

 

[Administrator2]

Not really. It's more important to get the point across than to care about whether inversion is used correctly or if the spelling is off.