Why are there so many on yahoo answers who do not express themselves well throug

Question:

Why are there so many on yahoo answers who do not express themselves well through words?

I've noticed that there are tons of people on yahoo answers, even those asking questions about what to do as their next step in their collegiate careers, not using real words. I'm not extremely uptight about grammar and spelling if only small mistakes are being made, but I can't even understand what these people are saying. What do you think is the reason for this? Why do people who are obviously capable of stringing together their ideas (some of them already have bachelor's degrees) choose not to?

**I'm not hoping to offend anyone with this and am not after a crusade of people to agree with me that this is annoying. I genuinely want to know why, maybe even from someone who does this. I'm asking about the ones who use words such as "gud," "lyke," and "d" or who use absolutely no punctuation.

*I'm not addressing those who speak English as a second language. That is usually apparent and forgiveable. I commend them for trying and usually doing quite well.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

This is not because many people do not care. Many people type so slowly that they think that they cannot afford to spend the time necessary to correct a mistake. Also, because of the general inflexible system of English grammar (i.e. words and their different applications are generally found in the same place: the order "subject, verb, objects" generally takes precedence [exceptions include Miltonic inversions, appositions, etc.].), you can generally make out what a word is SUPPOSED to say or SUPPOSED to mean. There is also a syndrome taking the world, propagated extensively by Americans: the lowest common denominator. Instead of asking people to lift themselves up from obscurity and ignorance, we ask all the people at the top to come down and roll around in the same obscurity and ignorance. In fact, in the educational system, it is considered improper and, under certain circumstances, illegal to correct people's conceptions of the English language. As it turns out, in the case of Martin Luther King Junior Elementary School Children et. al. v. Ann Arbor School District, the federal judge ruled that the school must comply with the dialect of English spoken by the children rather than that the children must comply with speaking a semblance of Standard American English. Other nations, due to the propagation of American pedagogical methods, have followed suit.

Because of this failure to correct problems in the uptake of English language principles, it is estimated that 15 million adults in the United States are functionally illiterate. Similarly, 75% of the Fortune 500 companies provide REMEDIAL training for the people who work for them. In the United Kingdom, the Daily Telegraph stated that "one in six British adults lacks the literacy skills of an 11-year-old." Their Department of Education states that 47% of school children left school at the age of 16 without having obtained competency in English, 42% failing to obtain competency in English at any point in their lives.

Hence your frustrations exist.