Ye folkes who be judging others should take a looke at your owne postings. Ye may be surprised to see a few errors
I may have missed something but I didn't see it in the rules that people must have exemplary spelling and grammar skills before being able to post.
I must have missed it too. In fact, we've always had an unwritten "don't critique spelling" rule here.
I couldn't type if my life depended on it, and I have a tough time spotting my typos. But typos in other folks' writing jump off the page at me, which used to drive colleagues in the workplace crazy. To Jerry's point, the only way I'm able to critique my own writing is to go away and come back to read it as if it was someone else's work.
Grammar is a different subject. Having taught post graduates and folks who didn't graduate from high school (in the same class), I'm not sure I can correlate good grammar and composition with level of education.
Having worked with countless folks from other countries where English is not their first language, I have nothing but admiration for their mastering of one of the most difficult languages to learn (English). However, for many of these folks, some things in our language don't exist in theirs. A simple example would be the possessive, as in "Tom's chair"; In many other languages, including my mother tongue, the " 's " doesn't exist. It would be translated as "the chair of Tom". So, when these folks attempt to speak it "correctly" in English, it becomes "Tom chair". Folks with little patience or understanding would translate this into a form of illiteracy.
I've tried learning numerous other languages and, quite honestly, I flunked every one of them.