Why are so many questions on YA phrased using really poor English?

Because most people are lazy and used to text language. I personally find it very irritating.

I can confirm what Rita and Alazrak have written. It is a global problem. I was born and educated in France as a child and now when I look at Yahoo Answers in French, I could weep. The spelling is atrocious, the grammar flouted, the terminology familiar and vulgar. I would also endorse the other entries when they blame laziness and ignorance, time pressure, the rush to be first with an answer, lack of discipline, lack of interest in writing correctly. It is true that Yahoo is often a forum for young people and they are no perfectionists, but many adults cannot be bothered either.

However the establishment has a great deal to answer for. Nowadays it seems that communication at all cost, even that of accuracy, is the most important thing. It no longer seems to matter how the message is conveyed as long as it is understood at the receiving end. The poor standard of many examination scripts has to be seen to be believed and yet these are graded as acceptable to make it look as if education is better than it was.

Whatever the government says, standards have deteriorated steadily over the last forty years. We, college lecturers are tearing our hair out at the general incompetence, lack of general knowledge, appalling English of many of our students, whatever the discipline. My colleagues in Engineering make exactly the same remarks as we do in literary disciplines: students cannot spell or write a balanced sentence with a variety of adequate or non-repetitive vocabulary, and pronouns are ignored or adverbs incorrectly used.

Yes, there are foreigners who participate in YA English, and some of the things they write are actually often quite decent because they are still being taught grammar and many are anxious to know the right terminology, whilst in UK slang is tolerated and often goes uncorrected.

I have a friend whose twins are in a "good" primary school and their teacher's English is appalling. The worksheets sent home are riddled with spelling or grammatical mistakes. The errors made by the children are not corrected. Complaints to the headteacher have fallen on deaf ears and this mother is now labelled "a trouble maker". If children are not taught properly then the whole thing becomes self perpetrating. I myself was assigned as tutor to a young woman doing the equivalent of a PhD in France whilst she was in UK and both her French and her English left a great deal to be desired yet she already had a Master's degree. We hear of complaints from the industries regarding employees with MBA's that cannot structure a report correctly, let alone use correct terminology and who make basic spelling mistakes, not just "typos".

It is western society as a whole that has taken a step backwards despite the progress made in Sciences , and we need to address this, but certainly not in the ridiculous, pointless and obscurantist way the present govenment has done since it has been in power in this country.

Ugh, tell me about it! And the weird thing is, people seem to accept it. Why is that? Is it too much to ask from someone? I mean, I'm not even english and I try my best to speak and write the language properly, so it just boggles me that some people don't take the time to spell check or simply to read it out loud and see if it makes any sense.

The other day, someone on YA said something similar to "english are a language" and I was shocked, to say to least. How can you make such a crass mistake and still be taken seriously?

Anyway, I do think that this is a global "illness", so to speak. I see it a lot in forums and blogs. In livejournal, though you do get a lot of people making spelling mistakes, most people will correct you, instead of agreeing with the interchangeable use of "you're" and "your". So we just have to keep trying to respect the language and hope other people will do the same - which isn't realistic, I know, but we have to be positive about it.

This is a multi-tiered problem throughout the world. Many have English as a second language and do not use it well, so we must forgive them. Those who misuse their natural language should not have this luxury, for many college graduates cannot read or write a simple sentence. While they should be studying, they play games, flirt, day dream or just plain goof off.

True the language is constantly undergoing change, but this doesn't cause the structure deviations. I have seen job applications that were so bad with slang, I could not understand much of what they stated. I can see using the letter "U" instead of you, but most of it I have no idea what they are trying to say.

Example: R u n trbl ? Watd u c a b? y not use gd grmr, nsted?

I think some people here are just lazy and don't think YA important enough to spell check.

Using text language (I do myself on occasion) is just because it's quicker, nothing more.

Of course some people answering here could have English as their second language, but generally that would make them better at it :)

I am also a person who likes letters to be correctly written and spot mistakes a mile off, but this is a light hearted banter here not anything to be taken seriously. So you know what they say:

Don't sweat the small stuff!!!!

You have no idea how many times this same question has been asked at Y/A Italy, where I usually... roam.

Even the tenor of the answers is exactly the same: some ascribe the mistakes to laziness, others to age or education.

It seems we are facing the same problems, and the same solution, i.e. no solution at all.

P.S. : some of the regular "foreigners" on Answers Italy write a much better Italian than the average Italian user.

I know this. Most people in this country have never seen nor developed the need to communicate using proper English. Our schools have failed us and we are slowly developing into a nation of functional illiterates who read and write just above a 7th grade reading level. I recently helped a friend proofread and re-write a college paper. She had no idea what syntax meant. She couldn't tell me why a particular sentence was incomplete. She didnt' know what an adverb was. And she used a word that will stay with me forever. "Conversating" I do not expect people to walk around speaking like William F. Buckley, but our language is dying a slow death.

As you say -> it is partly that people are not learning to spell or structure a sentence at school....

Also, i estimate that 7/10 people on here are still at school (judging by the stupid questions, the homework questions, the boyfriend questions etc) therefore they are too lazy or not-bothered to spell properly.

Then again, it could be part of the decay and de-volution of the humankind. As a race we are getting more and more stupid by the day; so much so that no one upholds any respect or any standard any longer for anything.

I think that is global problem. In YA in spanish where I originally write, there is a lot of simple spanish and very much language that seems toxic waste.

Many things causes this problem, but foremost the lazy people, and in certain way people that hasn't english as their first language, like me : ·).

I think the really poor English has got a lot to do with the high levels of bigotry, racial abuse, ignorance and boorishness found on Yahoo Answers. It's not a case of spell checkers or foreign languages, it's a case of people being really thick.

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