Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24821182-20140516124812/@comment-24918243-20140516153233

I agree with both of you on that. If you are being chased by a monster, yoiu don't stop to write down what is happening, bad grammar or not.

As a matter of fact, i think these "journal entries stories" are only really believable in a situation where a person is stranded, or hiding, where the tension is caused by expectation of harm rather then harm itself.

That being said, the only case where bad grammar is acceptable is when it's part of the characterization. The chat room, or child examples Resident mentioned are spot on. Another example would be when trying to make it obvious that the character has some kind of accent like if he is a southerner, Scottish, Slovakian etc... but that is real hard to pull off in believable way.