Yeah, think of us: the Dutch, the Germans, the French and everyone else! But I have to say, most of the time I understand the Hippie grammar. My grammar sucks, so I don't mind the mistakes of others.
agrees with Sam~ And Hey we're hippies afterall that's what hippies are about.. non-comformist anti-establishment anti grammer,, we did/do things they way it falls, no going back n changing things no opps lets do it over.... go forward let it stand. If one were to nit pick on every word writen by hippies, you would be jacketed with being UNCOOL by the very ones who you imulate. Blessed Be. The fact that we are all here on this planet is confussing enough without having to worry about 'OMG did I spell that right or did I puncuate that correctly' ,most of the "hippies" I knew never graduated high school(like myself).
Well, as for me I am not a native English speaker and therefore do make mistakes myself - I certainly wouldn't support people who play "grammar police" in every thread, but wouldn't say no to people trying to write correctly. I mean, who cares if there's an apostrophy (sp.?) in "its" or not, but I find it extremely hard to understand posts written like "r u ok? kewl if u r, fi nt y? b/c 'f ya bf?" and usually skip those when reading. Protest and stuff, fine, but aren't hippies also about poems, beautiful language, intelligence and so on? I can see no message behind this kind of posts, not to speak of beauty ... they seem just dumb and I usually expect a message like "fuck you!" anyway if I see something like that and just don't read it, even if it might be the most clever answer... Just my two cents. Rain
Poor grammar can annoy me too, but I'm here for content, not form. Also, I see it as an exercise in tolerance not to bitch about someone else's writing style, or lack thereof. And, hey, we all make mistakes...
