I would think that if you care enough to sit down and write something, submit it to a site like this one, and hope for reviews, you would care enough to learn the fundamentals of your mother language. There are some who would argue that misspelling, grammar, and punctuation are some quaint form of creativity with the language. "Art" or some such. To me, the difference is as if I'm comparing a Monet with a picture of streaks and polka dots. One requires an immense amount of talent and discipline, and the other the artistic abilities of a five year old. (Why some pictures that amount to little more than streaks and polka dots of color sell at all is beyond me. But maybe I'm just not very sophisticated.)

There's a book on this subject called "Doing Our Own Thing: The Degredation of Language and Music." There are something like 400,000 words in the English Language, and the average American is down to using about 20,000 of them commonly. Pretty pathetic.

The use of the English Language is a major pet peeve of mine. It's gotten to the point that I literally spend half my life explaining myself to my co-workers. They usually have no clue what I'm talking about, simply because they have no command of their mother tongue.

Morrighan