With MSN, email, and electronic communication, is spelling and grammar important anymore?
Favorite Answer
My pet hate is people who are to damned lazy to type a proper sentence – with full words, decent structure and punctuation!
I am very glad that you also think it is important. Many would agree that using so-called ‘text-speak’ comes across as lazy and ignorant.
For example: If your chatting with a person online that you’ve never met before and he says:
“Yah, I totaly luv socer. I never been to a socer game b4, butt I’d luv to go. THX 4 taking, c u latter.”
You would assume that he is completely uneducated, and that he can’t speak proper english at all. But if you spoke to another person that said:
“Yeah! I totally love soccer. I’ve never been to a soccer game before, but i’d love to go. Thanks for talking. See you later.”
You would assume that he is educated, and would be a nice person to hang around, better than the 1st guy.
So to answer your question, yes, spelling is important in e-mail, because after all, it makes the first impression.
- Academic Writing
- Accounting
- Anthropology
- Article
- Blog
- Business
- Career
- Case Study
- Critical Thinking
- Culture
- Dissertation
- Education
- Education Questions
- Essay Tips
- Essay Writing
- Finance
- Free Essay Samples
- Free Essay Templates
- Free Essay Topics
- Health
- History
- Human Resources
- Law
- Literature
- Management
- Marketing
- Nursing
- other
- Politics
- Problem Solving
- Psychology
- Report
- Research Paper
- Review Writing
- Social Issues
- Speech Writing
- Term Paper
- Thesis Writing
- Writing Styles