Grammar mattersif u want 2 b loved

Grammar can arouse a heated debate- even amoung adults who are well-acquantied with its intricate rules. But students may be intrigued to know hat it can also be a turn off. Abuse of the english language has the power to sabotage friendships and even romantic elationships, according to dating wbesites OKCupid. The site looked at 500,000 first contacts between its users and concluded that netspeak, bad grammar and poor spelling are huge turn-offs when creating a first impression and developing an online relationship. Some of the biggest passion killers were ur,u, wat and wont, the website concluded. Online suitors also loathed luv and realy. Yet they liked the correct use of apostrophes-something that is often the first thing to be abandonded in text speak. Men are most likely to use clumsy or offensive language, such as misguided physical compliments. Of course there is a serious point to gammar.the writer who neglects pucutation or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood...for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermoniod, Edgar Allen Poe wrote, Arguments about the correct use of grammar are unlikely to go awayand some people are unlikely to abandon text-speak on thier mobiles. But they may take a more interest in the correct use of language if it helps them to write a convincing love letter.