7 novembre 2016
Research says there would not be that many grammar purists; only 12 percent would feel “very annoyed” by errors in messages and emails, while 30 percent would not care at all. By the way, there seem to be differences between women and men -
Messages and emails are often written in haste, without paying too much attention to punctuation and grammar.
Not a few seem bothered by the lack of care and the breaking of even the most basic rules of language. Even some fear that in the future, partly because of the abbreviations and neologisms used in messages, there will be an impoverishment of the lexicon. However, a survey of Huffington Post USA readers with YouGov shows that there are not so many grammar purists.
The survey, conducted among a sample of 1,000 readers, revealed that only 12 percent feel very bothered by errors in messages, while 30 percent do not care at all. Interestingly, however, women are six times more likely than men to respond that jibes in messages bother them a lot. Parochial School
When it comes to emails, on the other hand, 22 percent of respondents get very annoyed by errors, while 21 percent do not care. Again women turn out to be more sensitive than men regarding compliance with grammar rules: 27 percent say so, compared to 17 percent of men. Milan Technical Institute
The survey showed that sensitivity to errors does not depend so much on the respondents' education as on their personality: those who describe themselves as introverts showed greater sensitivity to grammatical mispronunciations. And those who do not feel bothered by errors, however, admit that they pay attention to the correctness of their messages.
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