MOST PEOPLE DON’T MIND IMPROPER GRAMMAR IN TEXTS

According to a new YouGov poll, most people don’t mind it if you use improper grammar in text messages and emails.
– Only 12 percent of the poll’s 1,000 respondents answered that improper grammar (punctuation, capitalization, etc.) in a text message would bother them “A lot,” while 24 percent responded “Somewhat,” 29 percent responded “Not very much,” 30 percent responded “Not at all,” and five percent responded “Not sure.” Notably, there was a difference between men and women’s grammar preferences; women were six percent more likely to respond that improper text grammar bothers them “A lot.”
– The language used in emails was only a slightly different story, with 22 percent of respondents saying improper grammar in an email bothers them “A lot,” 30 percent responding “Somewhat,” 23 percent “Not very much,” 21 percent “Not at all,” and 3 percent “Not sure.” Again, women were more likely to judge improper grammar harshly, with 27 percent saying it bothers them “A lot,” versus 17 percent of men.
* And this is all true, irregardless.
* Look, just be grateful people care enough to send you a text.
* It’s not that we don’t mind improper grammar, it’s more like we’re all too lazy to bother about it.
* Hey, if the main news websites are full of grammatical errors, why sweat a text message?
* I always like picturing the 3% who aren’t sure how they feel about this.
* I suppose grammar would be more important if we sent text messages with actual words.
* What are we supposed to say? “You split an infinitive between omg and wtf.”
* Then there’s the belligerent ones who say, “Dangling participles? I’ve got something dangling right here for you.”