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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1858685" data-attributes="member: 812">I don't mind typos or the occasional error -- nobody's perfect.But I will say (to be descriptive for a second instead of madly railing against the ways of the world) that when a person doesn't appear to have spent sufficient thought on their communication to even bother trying to structure it grammatically, I'm much less inclined to spend sufficient thought on it to understand it.Well-structured communication indicates orderly thought. To some degree. Obviously it's possible to obfuscate (who can pass up a chance to use THAT word? Not me) with grammatically correct language, so there's other criteria for "well-structured" than just grammar, but correct grammar is an important component.I blame post-modernism (there's very little I can't blame on post-modernism, if I put my mind to it). Particularly I mean poetry post Modernist. Eliot and Pound and so on -- these guys had proper grammar down, and when they did break it (which they did less often than you might think) it was to a purpose. Even Joyce knew what he was doing that way (and for me to say anything not denigrating about Joyce is a gesture of great generosity). But nowadays people think poetry is actually a license to ignore grammar (except for Anne Carson, who's a genius), and that spills into high-school English classes (we got encouraged to "express ourselves" a lot more than we got encouraged to "express ourselves in a logical manner"), and, obviously, civilization as we know it comes to an end.But that happens every couple of years.Still, I blame the post-modernists. Bastiches.Go read Anne Carson. She's a poet.</blockquote>

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