Ony wen yall cain't red whut i have writ !

I think it is. The main point of communication here is through writing and I personally make an effort in my own. I don't expect everyone to do the same, and I accept we all make mistakes and forget grammar rules here and there, but it is only the lack of true effort that annoys me.

1337 speak or text speak in forums, on paper or in chat rooms makes me want to throw an old fashioned typewriter at the person.

I think its fairly important, I'm Generaly conscious of this and will strive for quality work, but other times
I'm tired and miss things.
I say qualify but thats in the eye's of the beholder as many people may write for a living or it may be a big part of there every day lives.
Myself I do all my postings off of my phone which is my first smart phone and is still new to me.
other factors that may play into it may be eye sight as the writing can get quite small on the phone also
years of boxing and 23 years of running a chainsaw professionly has sure taken its toll on my hands.
This can make it very hard to hit the touch screen acutely due to nerve damage .
I also use predictive text and sometimes that can screw you.
I could go on, there's certainly many variables for me, I have done more writing in the last couple of
weeks than a have in 27 years, thats a fact.
I didn't know all my hominids and punctuations when I finished grade 12 English, I was a terrible
student, "majoring in the parking lot 101".

To put things into perspective, its like giving a writer two chainsaws,wedges, belt, axe, safety equipment, first aid kit, hand held radio,gas and oil & drop them out of a helicopter on some Inlet on
the west coast.....good luck with that one.

I even here this all the time from guys that don't do it for a living say stuff like " well i've bin running saw
all me life" and my answer to that is always "ya well I've bin livin a long time to, but it doesn't make
me a porn star either.

On a site like this, where writing is how we communicate, do you think someone's writing style is important? Do misspelled words and text speak bother you? Are grammar and punctuation important to you?

Disclaimer: This is not geared toward anyone or any threads. These are just general questions, since we all use writing to communicate here.

For the most part, I am quite fluent in typonese. I do, however, find a lot of errors distracting.

And text speak just annoys me. Not the lol's or smily faces but complete sentences that leave me wishing I could buy a vowel are just painful. I don't tend to stick with those conversations.

But I'll try because I don't want to be hit with a typewriter.

Think of it as (rather forcibly) putting punctuation in someone's head.