Posted on 04/06/2016 1:20:07 PM PDT by Morgana
Scientists have found that people who constantly get bothered by grammatical errors online have "less agreeable" personalities than those who just let them slide.
And those friends who are super-sensitive to typos on your Facebook page? Psychological testing reveals they're generally less open, and are also more likely to be judging you for your mistakes than everyone else. In other words, they're exactly who you thought they were. That sounds pretty obvious, but this is actually the first time researchers have been able to show that a person's personality traits can actually determine how they respond to typos and grammatical errors, and it could teach us a lot about how people communicate (or miscommunicate) online.
"This is the first study to show that the personality traits of listeners/readers have an effect on the interpretation of language," said lead researcher Julie Boland from the University of Michigan. "In this experiment, we examined the social judgments that readers made about the writers."
The researchers took 83 participants and asked them all to read email responses to an ad for a housemate, which either contained no errors or had been altered to include typos (e.g. "teh" instead of "the") or grammatical mix-ups, such as too/to or it's/its.
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GIBBERISH!!!
The author has not noticed that he has switched from discussing the VERB "to effect" to discussing the NOUN "effect."
Sometimes “mix-up” is correct, and sometimes “mix up” is correct.
Where you see “login,” 99.99% of the time, it should be “Log in.” Same with “signup.”
Not incorrect.
You're sentence is a double negitave.
Well said.
Gasp!
There are only a few lazy mistakes that me cringe. The worst offense is when people say, “Me and my friend.” It sounds like fingernails on a black board.
Just got a new phone, and can’t do a thing with it.
“Unless and until Windflier weighs in, the thread is pretty much pointless.”
That’s a pass on your grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Well done, fellow English speaker!
No it isn’t a double negative.
It’s a litotes.
You missed a comma.
From you, that is high praise indeed!
:)
“I never correct people.”
You’re better than me. I correct gutter English all the time.
Us posters at FR practice good grammar.
Thanks for the Ping, Mister Moose. But if I had a tendency to correct people’s grammatical errors to an excessive degree, I would communicate with you much more than I do, and you would likely communicate with me much less than you do.
😊
No wonder everyone avoids me. I’m an editor!
In fairness, there is something musically beautiful about proper language. It just sounds right!
I’m going to order one, too.
:-)
😊 Couldn't resist! My daughter and I LOVE catching each other in grammar errors! (We are poor and not able to afford real entertainment. 😊)
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