TnT: incorrect grammar

[pipisafoat]

contest 33 is open until Monday at 10 pm GMT/6 pm EST.

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I know that it is a stylistic choice to have a character speak with incorrect grammar. I know that it is a stylistic choice to have a narrator with incorrect grammar. I have even written both of those in the past and will probably do so again in the future! However, I can't help it: I hate reading something with glaringly bad grammar. Even if I know it's done on purpose, I can't force myself to sit there and wade through it. Even if I know for a fact that the author is a person who has impeccable grammar. Even if you held me at gunpoint with a check for a million dollars waving in my face. (Okay, maybe not then.) And yet, I'll still write things with bad grammar to prove a point or more accurately represent the character(s). However, there are people who won't do it even then.

Incorrect grammar: strength in style or just showing your idiocy?

Comments

[milkbar]

I try to use grammatically correct English when I write and seriously, I'm a prick about those kind of stuff, but it's mostly because English is not my first language, bugt it is the language I write most of my stuff on, and I don't want to either be misunderstood or use bad grammar badly. I don't think I know English enough to purposely, stylistically use bad grammar and still have what I meant understood; Plus, misusing grammar usually involves trying to convey an accent or dialect, and I don't know much about either of them. I try, but I don't think I do it right.