Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24821182-20140516124812

You're currently being chased by a zombie ninja werewolf from another dimension that never existed, and you're in a hurry to write down your story, so that people may learn the horrible truth about what happened to you. (By the way, why are you doing that at such a crucial time?)

The monster could be tearing down your door any second now, so it's perfectly understandable that you don't give a damn for proper grammar, punctuation, or having what you write make sense to whoever reads it - or is it really understandable?

I'm a neat freak, and correcting grammatical mistakes is a fun little game to me, so you can imagine the unbelievable despair I feel when I have to leave a poorly written story stay the way it is because, "The grammar is supposed to be that bad."

I'm aware this is a difficult subject to handle, and I admit that terrible grammar actually can work in favor of a story. My problem is that some stories use this excuse when it's unjustified. Take stories written as blogs for an example; you have a computer, possibly with Word on it, and definitely with access to the internet. The fact that you're writing a blog rather than scribbling some notes on a piece of toilet paper suggests that you have ample time at your disposal, so why not care about writing properly?

Wouldn't the authorities take your virtual cry for help more seriously if it was written properly?

And what about hand-written letters sent to your loved ones? When you write a letter to a member of your family, do you really want your grammar to give them the idea that you never finished high school? I don't care what traumatic events you've been through after buying that cursed penchant from a mummy samurai in Egypt, the sense of proper grammar should come intuitively.

Again, I realize that terrible grammar can make a story better, such as in the case of chatroom texts, where it would be odd to care about writing properly. If it's a child or some simple-minded adult who's writing the story, it can also work quite well. I'm just worried that the number of unjustified instances of poor grammar will continue to increase and give new users the idea that we don't care about the quality of what's posted on here.

Please let me know what you think about this. 