I've got to side with the Literacy First crowd on this.Anyone who repeatedly tries to communicate in the written word without observing the fundamentals of actual literacy comes off looking like an uninformed bumpkin, someone who brought a pillow to English class.
Communication is the most vital form of human interaction. If someone tries to make a point or even throw a quick phrase out there using poor writing skills he is immediately marked as a know-nothing, and his attempts from then on to make a point will be diminished in the eyes of the reader.
The author--and I use that word loosely-- will also have demonstrated a distain for the recipient of his communucation, assuming incorrectly that the reader is as dumb as he.
Today's "tuned-in" youngsters practice their sophomoric writing skills on cellphones or social blogs where their IM skills tend to be abbreviated, but a close examination of their messages really show an appalling lack of basic knowledge and a basic dumbing down of communicative skills. Many of them probably complain that "nobody understands them" and never try to seek the source of that misunderstanding.
It lies within.
An inability to say or write something containing basic grammatical style may work among their peers, but people who actually stayed awake during English class will most likely dismiss them as unfortunate and irrelevant.
They will, most likely, NEVER be understood and their lives will be seriously hamstrung-- all because they think that someone who can't grasp their meaning of things isn't cool.
My message to them???--lern too rite plz
