Ah, I'm not talking about non-native English speakers. Perhaps I should have made that clearer. While seeing English errors from non-native speakers can cause me to grit my teeth a bit, I do understand and respect their attempts to get English right — it's a complicated language and must be a bitch to learn for people used to languages with simpler, more predictable structures.

I was, however, specifically referring to people for whom English is their first language, and there are plenty of people out there who commit all the above "sins" when I know for a fact they're capable of better. Take one well-known games journalist with the initials LA, for example — every time I've seen a personal blog post from that individual, it's been entirely in lower case. They are a professional writer.

I don't think a lot of these issues can be blamed on typos, either. It takes a specific choice to type "lol" instead of a punctuation mark. I'll grant that if you're typing in haste you can sometimes shoot out the wrong "your" — I've done it once or twice and been mortified when I spotted it.

Also, I have no idea where the use of "addicting" came from, but I really wish it would go back there.

Your face is tobias.

Right?

Secondly, in my time on forums (like GAF), I've, come to realize that a nice chunk of people who post on English language forums don't actually speak English as their first language. You'd be surprised how many people you get from almost every region on Earth posting in gaming forums, and I'm honestly impressed so many of them speak English well enough that I initially think they're just dumb American kids and not foreigners.

…or it can also be a lot of people posting from smartphones and messing up on their inaccurate keyboards.