[BostonCard]

Yeah, I heard a segment about this on my morning commute and was going to post.

A little bit for everyone...

Dating site Match asked more than 5,000 singles in the U.S. what criteria they used most in assessing dates. Beyond personal hygiene—which 96% of women valued most, as compared with 91% of men—singles said they judged a date foremost by the person’s grammar. The survey found 88% of women and 75% of men said they cared about grammar most, putting it ahead of a person’s confidence and teeth.

So, anyone going to the meet up, make sure to fix your personal hygiene.

Then again

“Grammar snobbery is one of the last permissible prejudices,” says John McWhorter, a linguistics professor at Columbia University. “The energy that used to go into open classism and racism now goes into disparaging people’s grammar.”

I tend to agree with the idea that good grammar reflects effort on the part of the writer.  Mistakes are allowable (lord knows, I've made plenty).  But if someone doesn't make the effort to write clearly, why should I make the effort to read them?

BC

[BostonCard]

Yeah, I heard a segment about this on my morning commute and was going to post.

A little bit for everyone...

Dating site Match asked more than 5,000 singles in the U.S. what criteria they used most in assessing dates. Beyond personal hygiene—which 96% of women valued most, as compared with 91% of men—singles said they judged a date foremost by the person’s grammar. The survey found 88% of women and 75% of men said they cared about grammar most, putting it ahead of a person’s confidence and teeth.

So, anyone going to the meet up, make sure to fix your personal hygiene.

Then again

“Grammar snobbery is one of the last permissible prejudices,” says John McWhorter, a linguistics professor at Columbia University. “The energy that used to go into open classism and racism now goes into disparaging people’s grammar.”

I tend to agree with the idea that good grammar reflects effort on the part of the writer.  Mistakes are allowable (lord knows, I've made plenty).  But if someone doesn't make the effort to write clearly, why should I make the effort to read them?

BC