This thread was way overdue for a lock, it's turned into arguments about schools and education, rather than discussing the OP's petition.

I donut dink dat gramer materz in life, becuz if you tink about it, how long dus both becus somtheng nothing is not neither.

This thread has started to get interesting...

GrizzlyAmish is right. In-game, your grammar can slip a bit. But when making maps, there is no excuse. FVDisco Hypixel, etc. They don't use rubbish grammar, and look where they are now.

I am not bad with grammar, though I tend to make mistakes with commas and what not, but hey, not everyone's perfect.

Heck, the Gorilla Guerilla can use his brain! He was educated! But more on topic, I think that internet speak is more based around speed and convenience.

Still... freedom of speech wouldn't cover i- ah, nevermind.

Azie...Some people just don't want to use it. Can't really force them to since that would be against free speech.

Unless you are against free speech. Then I suppose my argument is invalid.

"Free speech" doesn't mean what you think it means.

I agree that grammar nowadays sucks, but I don't think that's really something to be taken up with national leaders. They can't really help it if kids want to spell out "lol" or "brb" to eachother. As stupid as that is, I don't see how they can control it. Plus, for Americans, freedom of speech.

And I do honestly think there are more important things that a national government should focus on. Maybe it'd be a topic for town governments/local legistlation.

It's not pointless, people are obviously getting somewhere with this. Like the fact people learn grammar in school. So, we can't really do anything to help. It's up to you to pay attention in class and pass or not.

like how i got the thread back on topic
am i cool yet

I think this is a good discussion, and it's nice to see that people can discuss things maturely on the site still.
Lock it if you want, but I think we should leave it open.

In my opinion, The petition is useless. I remember learning proper grammar so much in school and it annoyed me so much... Anyway, It's called Txt talk. Our government can't force schools to drill it more because We have freedom of speech in Canada, and other places in the world.

Honestly, yeah I do agree with you on this.

You really want this petitioned? This is a worthless argument. What I'm saying is most of us got to school or home schooled and have been taught grammar now if they have a primary language its not their fault just help them out if needed. No petition is required for this. Apologies.
EDIT: this was edited by exurbia so i will make it more... appropriate. But there is more important matters. This should not be cared about like "drugs", or your "sexuality"

Well, there's always AutoCorrect... what other people do shouldn't bother us. It's their choice. As long as I understand it, it's fine.

I agree with Exurbia. We already teach extensive grammar lessons in our schooling system, so what is the point of this?

You can't FORCE kids to be good at grammar or pay attention in school. Some kids just aren't very good at English and they find it a challenge. And what happens if they don't have good grammar? They get thrown in jail? Oh, please. We should be more worried about real problems like war and stuff. Schools already are getting funded enough for most kids to go to school (unless they live in a third world country) so what's the point of this?

I'm sorry to say this, because I hate it when people use improper grammar/spelling, but I think whatever people in this thread have better in grammar lose in logic and intelligence. I don't know why it isn't obvious that this petition will not go anywhere. Has anyone ever heard of a school before? People spend a large chunk of their life in an institution teaching knowledge that is required to learn. This includes grammar. Are you saying that they should put more money into schooling? If so, your petition should be completely different.

How come I'm the only one that has signed this? We need all the signatures we can get.

i haz good grammers an stuff see.
But no, seriously, your idea is quite interesting. It would be most wonderful if people could actually text / write with proper grammer, instead of using text shortcuts and other annoying, lazy abbreviations of words.

Very good point Greytopher, however I believe that 35-50% of unemployment is due to people failing their interviews as an affect of a lack of communication. It's a very good cause.

If I remember correctly, I learned proper grammar in school... if people don't use proper grammar it's either A) they didn't attend school B) english isn't their first language, or C) they choose to spell that way out of laziness or convenience.

ya sur dat souns cool! I'm also a bit of a grammar nazi too. I'll sign!

Very interesting.
I'll sign.
I am a bit of a grammar Nazi, so might as well!

Flowers and Cacti,
~LeCrown

This is really interesting, to be honest. Having conflict on wether to do it or not :/