Your English sucks, try 'during the time I have been here'

Do they also use Internet shorthand such as "btw" and "thx" but write it in capitals?

Only yesterday I wrote IIRC on a.cc. Shame on me.

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IIRC? I didn't see you in IRC. Although lately a few people from here came to #allegro who aren't usually there.

IIRC...Internet Relay Chat only takes care of IRC. The leading I must be Intelligent Internet Relay Chat then .

Isänmaallinen Internet Relay Chat

For every Grammar Nazi, there are two dozen Red Grammar Guards.

I think it's great allecro.cc'rs are "hung up" on grammar. If someone told you they were going to go play "basketbell", you would probably say something, right? And yet, it's just fine to say "id rather go to the store than ill go to work" online. Bell ball then than, what's the difference, right?

All we want is for people to live up to a grade school standard. If you can't do that effortlessly, you need to improve your grammar, spelling, or typing skills.

My mom has a doctorate and teaches English.

She sends me emails and messages all the time with typos, misspelled things, missing punctuation, and the occasional cutesy abbreviation. If she wanted, she could do all these things with great precision, but she doesn't have a stick up her ass.

Also, when I was in English class in the thrid grade, I was the kid who constantly raised their hand to answer every question, to the point where I began to ask deeper questions, pulling words like "gerund" and "adjective clause" out of the teacher.

At one point I became aware of the people around me and my teacher, and realized I was just annoying the crap out of everybody.

Some time back, I was producing an album for a singer who, as his day job, was a literature teacher. His position was that the excessively pedantic nature that most instructors take - the absolutist nature of what they teach - hinders the express-ability of the individual, forcing them to express themselves in a mode which only allows for certain types of expression. And I agree.

When you say "If you can't do that effortlessly, you need to improve your grammar, spelling, or typing skills." I disagree wholeheartedly.

It's about the message, the expression, and the content - not the method.

Sounds like you're thinking about art, not communicating on a programming forum.

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So you're saying if I'm too lazy to make sure my résumé has no spelling or grammatical errors I should still be considered for the job?

It's the same reason that when speaking publicly, there is a certain etiquette expected that differs from a cat with your friends.

You wouldn't speak in public and say:

Every presentation I have ever sat in about IT careers where there was advice on getting a job, the presenter made it clear that one of the criteria for tossing a CV was a misspelling.