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deiyezooger writes, in part: “my opionion on this is if your talking to the person and they understand you what is the problem? why should it make a diffrence how its said? i feel, as long as your understood, whoopidoo. lets not be so on top of them……..

I agree in part with your first sentence. The purpose of writing in standard English is, in part, to enable you to communicate to someone to whom you are not speaking face-to-face, or someone who is outside your circle of friends, business colleagues or kollel. If you are talking to someone face-to-face and he/she does not understand you, he/she will interrupt you for clarification, or his/her facial expression will reveal that you have not made yourself clear to him. That is not possible in written communication, such as the Coffee Room, or a written commentary on a Torah passage, or a business report, or an article in a scholarly journal about the history of algebra or the treatment of dyspepsia in whales. Your last sentence uses language that is unfamiliar to me, but I think you are saying, among other things, that one should not be critical of a person who fails to write in proper, standard English.