I'm a big fan of wit. Too bad I've only got a half.

If someone is clearly showing a complete lack of concern for how they communicate it bugs me, but I don't judge too harshly for minor errors or typos.

I'm pretty snobby too. I like writing properly and have mild anxiety attacks when I misspell words or miss a punctuation mark.

I still text people in complete and full words and sentences. My friends would probably shit themselves if I wrote "how r u?"

How someone writes --- the words they choose and their grammar ---- can give a fairly accurate picture as to education level and attention to detail.

English is chaos anyway: [ncf.idallen.com]

From the great James Earl Jones, "We as humans are blessed with the gift of language. It is something that I try to perfect that as much as I can".

I'm split on this. As a former grammar enthusiast after several things came to pass I've relaxed over someone's writing skills.

1. reading the internet has influenced, destroyed my spelling & grammar.
2. People's reactions to me IRL seem different vs online (wish i was a better writer, can be brutally blunt)
3. Having met and had many conversations on the phone with various people excellent writing skills don't always translate either, for the worse too.
4. My kid has to be on the dyslexic spectrum, she has issues spelling but can make a point in writing like no one's business. Yet in person, her verbal skills are no where near her writing ability. She's VERY SHARP but you'd never know that in a conversation if you didn't see her composing a thought. It's like there's a physical barrier between her mouth & thoughts.

I prefer to read something that has structure and punctuation.
Some stuff I can look past - especially if it's being used intentionally.
"I can has cheeseburger?" for instance.
I'm not a fan of ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME.
Some typos I can get past, but one real turn off is "alot".

Allie Brosh
[hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com]

Absolutely, but within reason. I make those mistakes, too, and I have a JD. Conversely, I know plumbers who have impeccable writing. Being good with words is an attractive feature, no matter who it is. Otherwise, I just try to focus on what anyone is trying to say, but, yeah, it's an issue if you can't figure that out. When it comes down to it, I'd rather deal with someone who is well-intended with writing flaws than a douche with perfect spelling.

Yes, if there are a lot of errors, its a turn off for me.

Text speak is a nope , to many emoticons also a nope ...the odd spelling mistake is fine but to many a nope . Writing half a sntence then pressing the return key can be annoying .
Im sure there should be a too in that paragraph but its late .

Typos happen. Bad grammar makes my skin crawl.
Worst offenders: "I seen this in the store", "I should of done that".

Minor errors and typos, within reason, are fine. Poor grammar, all caps, weak sentence structure is a no-go. Poor writing = poor thinking = not interested. This is especially true in a profile, where the person has time to think about it.

Hmmm.....

Prescriptive Grammer vs Descriptive Grammer
=
English Teachers vs Noam Chomsky

Naom Chomsky, hmmmm....

Noam Chomsky is the Father of Modern Linguistics.....hmmmm...

I know what side I'm on! What side are you on?

I am all over misspelled words and grammar droppings.

Observing that a person has no clue about the difference between "then" and "than" sucks me down the hole.

The clarity of knowing that the writer is not able to construct a coherent "if-then" sentence makes me wet.

What more can we actually expect? Better make the most of it.

Poor writing shows slovenliness to me. The way a person writes reflects much about them, therefore poor writing does turn me off.

If I'm getting to know someone through an online forum, the way they write is very important. I don't mind a few grammatical or spelling errors, because I do them too sometimes, but it still has to make sense. The manner in which someone writes is also important to me -- I much prefer colloquial, anything stylized or esoteric is kind of off-putting. I someone is funny or quirky, that's fine, again as long as I can understand what they're saying, or they're able to clarify if I ask them. I hope people write the way they talk! -- Especially if it's someone I may want to eventually meet.

Since I am back in school as an English major, context and grammar are very important to me. It does make a difference, because it tells me a person's ability to carry on a conversation with some intellect.

Being able to understand the other person is essential. If they are illiterate and use too many hashtags or emojis or cannot spell it does lower my perception of them. Especially when using "ghetto" rhetoric or language.

Sounds like a prescriptive grammerist with a heart!!

You've seen some of my comments. I'm verbose and I'm kind of a grammar snob. I'm usually willing to compromise on technical correctness and concern for correct language use in the name of clarity, and I learned a long time ago that other people do not put the same (potentially excessive and neurotic) care into developing and maintaining the tools of communication, and that's perfectly fine. Not everyone wants to write for a living.

I often get accused of being pedantic or condescending or talking over people's heads because I have an extensive and academic vocabulary, and I try to use the correct word to express a thought rather than adaptive-engineer a semantically awkward phrase to serve the same purpose. It's almost never a conscious choice, it's just my native language. That said, I love idiosyncratic expressions and colloquialisms as a linguistic tool.

As for how much it affects my perception of others: i regard myself as sapiosexual, i find intelligence incredibly attractive. But even intelligence is a vague and open-ended concept.
I've seen people who can barely read at a 4th grade level but can disassemble, fix, and reassemble cars or electrical equipment like it's what they were specifically put on this Earth to do, and I've seen people who rate higher on the genius scale than I do who can't give a five-minute oral presentation to their bosses without an emotional support person in the room with them to prevent freeze-outs. The more time I observe people the more I realize the sheer variety of intelligences that exist. It's more about how the brain works than what the brain does. Spelling and grammar end up being secondary to clarity of communication and just the particular way the mind approaches ideas and issues.

well as long as you don't right like that idk ttyl lol and so on im fine if theres typos or little mistakes cause i must admite my writing online and in real life is not the same i cut corners online but aply my self in life

If I can understand it, it’s not important. I work with a menagerie of cultures and people. I get the honest pleasure of working with so many people with English as a second language. I only correct them if they ask, otherwise I ignore the grammar and spelling mistakes whether verbal or written (emails). If a native English speaker uses a word wrong I’ll correct them if it’s important; however, online it’s petty, patronizing, and just mentally taxing to constantly correct people.

content over style i think

It also irks me when i see simple mistakes, especially on facebook. Usually ill overlook something like that,as long as theyre a good man.