> As others have said, errors in english are almost as grave as errors in Perl.

Perl is definitely much easier to parse than English. Compared to most languages I know English is by orthography, phonology and vocabulary a mess.

> When reading anything on the internet, I am forced to waste a lot of attention on sorting out all the mistakes in order to get at the most likely intended meaning.

I have much more problems to understand native English speakers than "foreigners".

Non-natives use a limited set of patterns and vocabulary, you can figure out what they meant.

But natives often either start to use their local slang or try their (local) style of "sophisticated" speech.

<update>(to continue this perl analogy, native speakers know the language good enough to use magic, to golf and to obfuscate, while the code of non-natives will mostly look like BASIC! ;-)</update>

Anyway, IMHO people writing non-comprehensible stuff should be politely asked what they meant or should be ignored, but not corrected...

(So if you don't know what I mean, ignore me ;-)

Cheers Rolf

In reply to Re^3: Grammarians: do we need a new group? by LanX
in thread Grammarians: do we need a new group? by swampyankee

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