Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Trending News
Why do idiots with poor grammar skills feel the need to ask stupid questions on this and other boards?
Seriously. I looked at 3 questions on this board, and all three had serious grammatical errors.
Idiots!
3 Answers
- MarionLv 52 decades agoFavorite Answer
My view is that the internet is opening more avenues of communication to teenagers and people with poor education, and both groups (with some exceptions) tend to spell poorly.
It's not that anyone's grammar is getting worse, but rather that we're being exposed more and more to the already existing bad grammar.
- drshortyLv 72 decades ago
I'm guessing that many of the people who are posting grammatically incorrect messages are not native speakers of English who are trying to learn more.
- Anonymous2 decades ago
I blame IM. It is destroying written word while making people retarded. All I can hope for is that they aren't producing children