So quick question... Grammar, spelling, etc... How far can you tolerate? Extremely good? Common? Extremely bad? Or don't care?

As for myself... Well had a legit discussion with someone (funny thing, he was a bully to me in school years but I was nice enough to befriend him... That friendship has been exterminated. Obviously, I will not share names as I wish no harm to him so I do not wish to humiliate him or anything of the like)... And said discussion went like this:

Honestly, I can tolerate most but when it is this low... I'm just like... I don't know what to say! I mean, I know he meant well and such (until he said my knowledge was stupid) but still... It just... What? But anyways...

What about you? Do you have a limit of what you can tolerate? Can you tolerate EVERYTHING?

You had a proper converstation as governed by the customs and guidelines of social intercourse?

Also, you lost a friend over a misplaced apostrophe?

I think http://powerpuff.wikia.com/wiki/HIM is trolling you there.

That'd be the part I'm most concerned about...

There comes a point at which you've just gotta say "You know, I value human relationships over punctuation."

Legit as in, it really did happened.

... Did you read my original post?

He was a bully to me in my school years (for around 8 years straight. To the very last year of Highschool). He sent me a friend request on Facebook within the last 6 months... I accepted, decided to give him a chance to make amends... And he ended up calling my knowledge, my intelligence, etc stupid and other things... (Which is better than the names he used and him telling me to go kill myself but whatever). We were never "friends" and I knew it wasn't gonna end well anyways so exterminated the friendship by removing him from my list on Facebook.

It wasn't because of his grammar... It was simply because it wasn't really a friendship and nothing was gonna happen from it... Except negativity.

~Edit~

And can someone please just leave that alone and actually stick to what the thread was made for?

You mean, extremely well and extremely poor.... Right?

If someone is at least trying to use correct grammar and spelling, then it's not really a problem. I can forgive mistakes and weird vernacular because being casual is often fine, especially among your peers.

Your examples display such a ridiculous lack of caring for language that it's clearly from someone who doesn't mind being lazy, uneducated and illegible.

Then stop mentioning it all the time.
You derail yourself.

I find it odd you make a thread with the use of a backdrop of a former school acquaintance, but when people discuss that point, you shun that, it sounds like there's more than you're telling us to that story the way you want people to completely ignore your background information you use to establish this thread.

In general, I might get personally annoyed by people who constantly post emotionless sentences as if they were a robot, or misuse words on a repeated basis, or make up their own definitions for words. My biggest pet peeve is people who spell with 'an' inappropriately. Things like 'an door', 'an car' or 'an baseball'. For the most part, an is only appropriate if a word beginning in a vowel such as 'an apple' or 'an ear'.

If you knew what he meant, your third line was entirely unnecessary and he was fully justified in his somewhat hostile-well wishing afterwards.

Grammar isn't really what is important, understanding is. Grammar just facilitates understanding, but I am pretty sure his statement was pretty obvious. No need to go grammar nazi on him over something so petty.

Now if someone uses [censored] so called "text speak". Where they go out of there way to misspell and further complicate communication like this? "4giv mai stpd fren. She is craycray n cnt spell wrdz. Thnkn ovu this wkend! Hv fun!"

[censored] em.

I know... I have a bad defensive nature to almost always reply to something (like right now)...

Actually, I am more worried of people getting the wrong idea and thinking I removed him as a "friend" due to his grammar when it was simply because I just don't like him and kinda regret accepting his friend request in the first place... I would totally happily share my background information (if asked on the proper thread or via PMs, though will not give out names and locations).

Anyways... Enough explanation in that area. I should have answered all possible questions about that and hopefully it's clear.

There's no wrong idea. You two were arguing about something and you latched onto his grammar (often seen as a dike thing to do). As for the 'we'll' being wrong, you really can't fault that, given you've been prone to using things like 'y'eh', which isn't even a word, just some uncalled for grammatical representation of an accent of some kind. To be blunt, you've misused words or attributed words with a definition far out in left field from its true meaning. The fact you called him out is a very pot an kettle situation and given we know next to nothing about what you two argued about, this could be an attempt to justify you executing an acquaintanceship because he was right in the argument and you did not want to admit it. I'm no saying he was, I'm just playing the devil's advocate here. I mean, it's like when things develop a cult following and people vilify it for some contrived point when in truth, they disagreed with it in some form. For all we know, you just disagreed with him and are trying to demonise him (IE: use of terms like school bully). Your entire thread is virtually wrapped around the entire premise that we point and laugh at a stranger we don't even know just because he mistyped words and possibly doesn't care how his grammar looks on the internet. Again, I'm not speaking against you here, but there's two sides to every story and your side doesn't make much sense in the way some of it is set up.

I know my grammar isn't perfect, but yeah, I can get a bit annoyed at it, and I'm pleased that no online person I regulary chat with use 'u' instead of 'you' It's rarely something I call out on though, especially on this forum. That said, if I see a post here with very poor english, I tend to do check from where the person is posting and see if they are a native to the language or not. But most seem to have been from the US.

I get more annoyed at it if I encounter it in swedish, and one of the worst examples here is actually my mom. I don't know what she was thinking and it was so damn odd. We had written e-mails to eachother for years with decent swedish and then suddenly she just started to write incoherent gibberish for some still unknown reason to me. The second time it happened, I told her to stop, and fortunately she did

I actually can't stand ellipises being over used. When I read posts anywhere with them used anywhere that isn't the start or end of a post it annoys me, and it reads like thehttp://static4.businessinsider.com/image/51a152886bb3f77c37000035-590/craig-lamar-traylor-as-severely-asthmatic-and-disabled-geek-stevie-kenarban-in-malcolm-in-the-middle-2000-2006.jpg from Malcolm In The Middle

I'm actually pretty tolerant of bad grammar, then again it depends on what mood I'm in, If I see "lol tat g8! U gud", I will possibly strangle that person if I could.

But typos, missed apostrophes, and the like? I don't mind, they happen all the time.