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Originally Posted by HarryT
I honestly don't see why it's any more difficult to write grammatically correct, correctly-punctuated and correctly-spelled text than text with poor grammar, incorrect punctuation and poor spelling, with the possible exception of someone writing in a language that's not their native language. We're all (presumably) taught the rules of grammar, punctuation and spelling at an early age. I'm constantly amazed by the number of presumably well-read people here at MR who don't appear to know that "it's" is not a possessive pronoun.
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English-speakers are not taught much grammar or punctuation in school because the language is written the way it is spoken, and it's a pretty simple language. There are few conjugations and no genders or cases.
Compare this with a language like French where to say one is able to write it well is a badge of academia.