Why are the spelling, grammar and punctuation on Yahoo answers so abysmal?

[TJB]

I know that there are accepted abbreviations for certain words but even then, the rest of the words are often badly spelt, the grammar is atrocious and the punctuation non-existent.Have education standards really dropped to such a low level?Glad that some of you managed to pick up that the question IS grammatically correct.It is not a question of passing a GCSE exam (I failed English Language O-level first time around), it is a question of being able to express yourself in an intelligible manner. I can't read half of YA it is so bad. And that is taking into account those who are not native speakers. FYI, I have enough experience with non-native speakers, living in Germany and working in the Netherlands, to be able to give them the benefit of the doubt.Dyslexia is a problem but not one that affects such a large number of YA users - then it is an excuse.I am by no means looking for perfection - ARE is correct in the question but I wouldn't immediately fall over IS; I just want to be able to read the questions and answers, preferably in an understandable form of English.Bungy, I checked once, when I had finished.fox00952: yes, I used abysmal. And?I don't understand your answer.Thanks TROLL. Du auch!If you can't do an umlaut, put an e after the vowel: "schoenen".Believe me, I do try very hard to understand some of the posts but they are often so disjointed that there could be three or more different meanings.

[CautiousNorm]

They dont talk proper like wot I do.

[katipapadopoulou]

No, but we are not all of us native English speakers.We 're trying to do our best but we were not born with english languge in our mind!

[kevin friend]

lets face it, if we were any good we would be at work now, and not answering questions on a computer passing the time

[eBayer]

What standards?People type how they speak generally.

[everonline]

There's also a similar correlation between graffiti & spelling.

[mrsclaura]

do you mean "why is the spelling, grammar and punctuation on Yahoo answers so abysmal"? are doen't make sense

[White Wolf]

spelt? Who the hell uses the word spelt?

[Kimberly W]

I think people are in a hurry. They just want to get the point across fast. Just a thought...

[neogriff]

That should be why IS the spelling, grammar and punctuation on YA so abysmal, not why ARE.;0)