[ckranjan]

Scientists have found that people who constantly get bothered by grammatical errors online have "less agreeable" personalities than those who just let them slide.

And those friends who are super-sensitive to typos on your Facebook page? Psychological testing reveals they're generally less open, and are also more likely to be judging you for your mistakes than everyone else.

Source : https://www.sciencealert.com/people-...cientists-find

[dailydriver]

Originally Posted by ckranjan

Source

Would that make most of us on the forum less agreeable individuals? I doubt it. Although I must agree that whenever I point out these errors, my popularity index among friends nosedives.

A case in point being a message in a WhatsApp group from a friend (residing in the USA), directed at me:

In the era of lol, k, brb, idk... if you message like this who will understand?

Today, grammar is like demonitized notes. It is neither current nor (a) valid currency.

Meanwhile, (ref: post #2803-2805) we are slowly realising that far worse than the tiger in a chicken coop are the hordes of wolves in sheep clothing that have made flying the coop an envious art .

[Thad E Ginathom]

Erm, shouldn't that be Flying the nest?

There goes what's left of my popularity!

[binand]

Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom

Erm, shouldn't that be Flying the nest?

I think both "fly the nest" and "fly the coop" are idioms that mean different things, though I must admit I didn't understand which of these the OP wanted to use.

Talking of coops, did anyone see the news about KFC in the UK running out of chicken?

http://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-43169625

There are several jokes about this on Twitter, but the one I liked the most is about KFC's managers who apparently are running around like chickenless heads. Some of them still managed to create a bucket list, though.

Some observers are suggesting that KFC's now running on a wing and a prayer, but it seems McDonald's is lovin' it.

[mayankk]

Flying the nest is growing up.
If the same is done in the coop, it's escaping.
That's that I was told.

[dailydriver]

Originally Posted by binand

though I must admit I didn't understand which of these the OP wanted to use.

Originally Posted by mayankk

Flying the nest is growing up.
If the same is done in the coop, it's escaping.
That's that I was told.

My words seem to have failed to cut the mustard on the clarity front. I consciously used flying the coop to mean escaping - to a place where they could be safe from the clutches of the Indian authorities.

[Thad E Ginathom]

You guys could well be right. And for some reason, I find myself wanting to spell it "coup"

[amitoj]

Good Grammar in Text Messages Makes You Look Bad

Earlier this year, psychologist Danielle Gunraj tested how people perceived one-sentence text messages that used a period at the end of the sentence. Participants thought these text messages were more insincere than those that didn’t have a period.

Huh! I guess most of my contacts think I am insincere then.

[noopster]

Originally Posted by amitoj

Good Grammar in Text Messages Makes You Look Bad

Huh! I guess most of my contacts think I am insincere then.

Fascinating!

You made me go and check my recent texts to see what kind of "insincerity" I am perpetuating

Pleased (?) to report that I am generally quite grammatical but do inject informality into my texts: an occasional phrase in Hindi/Marathi, an affectionate address, the odd smiley. Hopefully that injects the missing sincerity back!

Meanwhile, in the United States, President Trump's "marine core" fiasco generated some serious burn!

[amitoj]

Originally Posted by noopster

Meanwhile, in the United States, President Trump's "marine core" fiasco generated some serious burn!

Hahaha. Well, the media did give it sufficient "covfefe"

[tilt]

Well, to bring this back to the original topic Sam Kapasi started - I see a lot of people here mentioning the "built" of their vehicles. Phrases like "the car has good built..." or "the built quality is excellent..." etc.

The correct word is "build" and not "built". You either say "This is a well-built car" or you say "The build quality of this car is excellent" etc.

I have seen this not only here on this forum, but have also heard this in a recent radio commercial for the Jeep Compass. The woman in the commercial says something about how much she likes the "built". I cringed.

Cheers

[riteshritesh]

Originally Posted by tilt

I see a lot of people here mentioning the "built" of their vehicles. Phrases like "the car has good built..." or "the built quality is excellent..." etc.

Cheers

Considering that built is both an informal adjective and a past participle, using it as an adjective for things that are constructed should be allowed.
If the car has a good built, I will buy it ( the statement and the car both).

[mallumowgli]

Originally Posted by riteshritesh

Considering that built is both an informal adjective and a past participle, using it as an adjective for things that are constructed should be allowed.
If the car has a good built, I will buy it ( the statement and the car both).

Saying that the car has a good built and built quality are different. Don't ask me why, but I feel that the former reads alright. 'Built quality' seems wrong

[Thad E Ginathom]

Originally Posted by riteshritesh

Considering that built is both an informal adjective and a past participle, using it as an adjective for things that are constructed should be allowed.
If the car has a good built, I will buy it ( the statement and the car both).

Not an adjective at all. Please don't buy!

[riteshritesh]

Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom

Not an adjective at all. Please don't buy!

Dictionary.com supports my buying decision.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/built