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Phoenixpower -> RE: Is good grammer a reasonable standard? (5/6/2010 12:46:54 PM)
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ORIGINAL: LadyHibiscus
Snarking aside, I do think that EDUCATION is important for someone to be a good match with me. I will chitter away on the interwebs with someone who can't spell, but that person has to have gotten past the third grade level to keep my interest for any length of time. Also, they need to know the difference between nouns and verbs. If someone is looking for a "dominate" and they get mega cranky when I ask them if they mean "dominant", well... time to move on.
Whilst thank goodness english isn't my first language and grammar isn't my strength, I was fine with it back home....however, if I would have to choose between a grammar-star who has no DIY skills whatsoever and a guy who can do the general fixing work on the car and the basic work in and around the house...then I would always chose the guy who has useful hands in daily life compared to the one who is proud about being abl to use the grammar correctly as quite frankly, I don't expect a guy to do any written conversation with local departments or so anyway and I can make myself understood in that respect. Therefore for me the priority is in how far can he cover areas in daily life where I am not so good at (can do a fair amount of DIY due to my dad doing everything at home apart from electricity, so grew up as a rather handy person, however I do prefer in a guy that he is able to use his hands in that respect and that he knows more about such stuff then I do.
In Germany I was always good in dictations...very few typing mistakes and helped out foreign course mates during my 2nd apprentice ship to fix their sentences....however, I regularly screwed it up at school when we had to decide ourselves where to place those damn commas (eg 2 spelling mistakes and 34 comma mistakes in a dictation). Needless to say it causes also some issues when talking in another language....if it bothers someone...well, so be it, I couldn't care less about....as after all I never claimed to be perfect and at least I know what my weakness is [:)] And it's ok, not to be perfect [:)]
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