Are spelling and grammar still as important as ever for getting our ideas across, or is near enough good enough?

Since kids are no longer taught how to communicate effectively, can we blame them if their posts are mangled? (Since the 1970s Australian schools have espoused the idea that spelling and grammar don't matter, it's the ideas that count.)

Spelling and grammar on here, "It is what it is".

It's a World Wide Web and 6 Billion people can answer if they choose, from all backgrounds to all levels of education or no education. Blurtit nor anyone else should be able to tell people how to speak, type, write or spell. 

That being said, I do my best📱.

With spell check and auto spell on all the devises we are at the mercy of computers and technology!

I try to use correct grammar and spelling, as far as others, I just take what I can get. I've learned not to get fired up about things that others do.

Spelling and grammar does matter.  You need to use good spelling and grammar even if it's for as little as a resume.  People look at it and judge you based on your spelling and grammar.  If there's one typo, people are turned off of it.

Honestly, most people my age that I know don't talk like this:

"I luv dat ppl thnk kidz tak lik dis!!1!! 😡😏😑😧😈👿"

I think grammar matters. If you talk like the example I showed above, then you aren't going to be taken as seriously and you'll be almost incomprehensible. People won't make the effort to even try to understand what you're saying. If English isn't your first language, then I think spelling and grammar errors are excuseable. Otherwise, stop talking like that.

Is near enough good enough?  I heard of a person who parked his car in a "No Stoping" zone. Came back and found he had a ticket. Took it to court and won, as "Stoping" is not the same a stopping. It has to do with mining.  Near enough was not good enough.

Under a different regime here, I had to spend hours correcting spelling and grammar and I do think it's very important. I see lousy spelling and grammar ? I usually think the person is underage as I do one on here now but I do understand the people that English isn't their first language also. If a person can read it and understand it ? They'll get better answers, no doubt.

I had a friend who made a web page to sell calendars to raise money for breast cancer research. She had cut and paste a small part and posted to her Facebook page. She had inadvertently used the word decease for disease. I quickly pm'd her to let her know. That is not a mix up you want when you are looking for a cure. 

It probably isn't realistic to expect excellent grammar and spelling in every instance, but it should be reasonable to expect an effort to get a point across coherently. That suffices in most cases. I do think we can usually see a correlation between the sophistication of one's ideas and the level of grammar (and vocabulary) used to convey them. 

There is a case to be made for the evolution of language but I have to admit, as with the course of our social culture, I am not a big fan of where things seem to be heading. 

If kids routinely learned what they were taught, I would say "yes, we can blame them."

Ignorance of the law may be no excuse, but now that they see a law is there, maybe they need to learn about it.

If you can't communicate with me, it usually turns out to effect them much more than it does me.

I appreciate correct grammar and spelling but we all make mistakes while typing. I really can't stand when questions and answers aren't capitalized at all.

Hi Didge,

I have actually been thinking of posting a Q along your same line...

Once on Ask, Yosey pointed out that she had never seen a post of mine with less than flawless grammar or spelling. Well since then, I have played with thought flow ..for the sake of expressiveness.

Can I use two words incorrectly, but floral in their conveyance, and thereby replace a whole sentence?

You and I together, especially on Ask, would sometimes be able to pull meaning out of basically unintelligible posts...and give the asker a response. So I do think it's helpful to have a foundation of grammar and spelling.

Oh and I have been reading Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and other stream-of-consciousness authors, and find that style impressive, too.

If u ask me - text is not the same as spelling

I can say wrk - or work

I can say ; you -  or u

Muspelled. Yes

Point across- yes