"Judging Someone’s Grammar Makes You Look Bad — Not Them"

I guess it's just as well then that I don't care about looking bad.

I have no idea how a story can be well-written without good grammar, but, then, I was always under the impression that grammar was what clarified meaning.

I don't think it's condescension - I think if people write on a platform that is for writers, then they better know how to put a sentence together. It's disrespectful to the reader to expect the reader to slow down and try to figure out what the writer is saying because the writer is unable to express clearly what is being said.

Certainly if one is on Facebook, and someone semiliterate numbers one of our diverse group of friends, one makes allowances for them. In that case, it would be wrong to point out that you're means something different to your.

It's when people claim to be writers, but they cannot put a decent sentence together that it becomes annoying, and I see no reason not to point it out. We are demolishing standards as we accept lower and lower standards.. These days, few Americans know that one may sing badLY - NOT 'sing bad.' People don't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.

How did that happen?

That happened when teachers started telling students that the grammar didn't matter, so long as they were understood. Well, it's touch and go as to what is meant here.

"I am eating, Grandma."

"I am eating Grandma,"

For the record, I grew up in an education system where 30 to 40 people were in a class. For the first seven years of my schooling, we had to learn how to spell words every single day. We had 'spellers.' During our first year, we had to learn to spell three words from the speller every single day. We were tested every Friday. By the time, we reached our 7th year, we were learning to spell 12 words every single day - by rote. Everybody in the entire country did that. There is a reason that people of my generation and prior to my generation were able to write well. And there is a reason that at the time we were considered to have the best education system in the world. We had a very high standard.

For the record, there are 11 official languages in my native country, and even when I was at school, we had to be fluent in two, plus have a 3rd language equavalent to high school graduation standard.

Yes, we are all good at different things, and if we're not good at writing, then we shouldn't be writing.