Let us write proper English, even on the fucking web!

[freediver]

I still here cartwright and wheelwright occasionally. When I was a kid I watched a steel rimmed wooden wheel getting made. Plus there's a pont Cartwright north of here.

[Jovial Monk]

AAaaand there is here and hear!

[mantra.]

Concentrating too much on grammar and perfecting it can interfere with what you actually want to say. You can write something and think - that sounds OK. Take a second look at it for mistakes, fix them - then it doesn't read properly - change it again and then you've lost the whole gist of the point you wanted to make.

Best to write something off the top of your head and leave it - even if there are a few errors.

[Jovial Monk]

"Theirs no global warming"

Would you take that guy seriously? Of course not!

Sure you can sit down with a text editor (e.g. Notepad) and write in a white hot haze of inspiration but to make it readable to your fellow men you would then go over it looking for spelling/grammatical errors, barbarisms of expression etc.

Wouldn't obsess over the odd typo, but your writings should be clear and even have a sort of elegance that says to someone "this person knows what he is talking about and writes well so I will read this stuff seriously and carefully."

My opinion anyway.

[freediver]

Sometimes people manage to communicate quite clearly that they are pissed off and slightly insane, but that's about it. You have no idea why.

[Jovial Monk]

Yeah. Looking illiterate is no way to convey information or advance an argument.

Not really being a nazi about it, abbreviations like b4, l8er etc quite acceptable on the web or casual correspondence.