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Spelling and Grammar Online

When I was in middle school, i wuld talk lyk dis on AIM. As a I grew older, I started having more serious discussions with strangers online. As I did this, I gradually adapted to a higher standard of spelling and grammar, mainly because that's how everyone else was writing.

What's your gender?

63% (45) Male
36% (26) Female

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You are _____ years old.

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Please select all the online services you use on a regular basis.

47% (32) Instant messaging
13% (9) IRC or other online chat room
41% (28) Online forum
52% (36) Emailed conversations with friends
50% (34) Facebook, Myspace, or other social networking site
8% (6) Digg, reddit, or other social news website
48% (33) MisterPoll
27% (19) Youtube comments

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Please check all that apply.

46% (29) You have different grammatical standards for different online environments. (e.g. you use punctuation in email but not in I.M.)
34% (22) You regularly capitalize acronyms like LOL and BRB.
55% (35) You regularly use emoticons.
38% (24) You regularly leave your sentences uncapitalized.
30% (19) You regularly leave periods off the ends of your sentences.
22% (14) You regularly use chatspeak terms like "ur" for "your" and "gr8" for "great".
14% (9) You regularly distort your words just for fun. ("kewl")

63 voters have answered this question.

What do you think of people whose online communication is sloppier than yours?

1% (1) I respect them for it.
45% (32) They're inferior.
12% (9) Undecided.
40% (29) I don't care.

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What do you think of people whose online communication follows spelling and grammar better than yours?

60% (44) I respect them for it.
2% (2) They're inferior.
1% (1) Undecided.
35% (26) I don't care.

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Is it true that Youtube has the worst comments on the Internet?

30% (22) Yes
47% (34) No, I've seen worse
21% (15) huh?

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This poll was created on 2008-03-04 01:46:04 by Remarkably Dark