Grammar in Dating Scenes

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Georgia Wells, How Grammar Snobs No U Ain’t Mr Rite; On dating sites, spelling, punctuation are judged; ‘Are you kidding?’  Wall Street Journal, Oct 2, 2015 (front page).
http://www.wsj.com/articles/what ... -grammar-1443746849

Quote: “Dating site Match asked more than 5,000 singles in the U.S. what criteria they used most in assessing dates. Beyond personal hygiene—which 96% of women valued most, as compared with 91% of men—singles said they judged a date foremost by the person’s grammar. The survey found 88% of women and 75% of men said they cared about grammar most, putting it ahead of a person’s confidence and teeth.

Note:
(a) The title in plain English: How Grammar Snobs Know You Aren’t Mr Right.
(b) “ ‘Grammar snobbery is one of the last permissible prejudices,’ says John McWhorter, a linguistics professor at Columbia University. ‘The energy that used to go into open classism and racism now goes into disparaging people’s grammar.’ ”

classism  (n): “prejudice or discrimination based on class”
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/classism

(c) “New Yorker Grace Gold[:] ‘People who send me text-type messages, and horrific grammatical errors? I just delete them.’ ”

Definition of “text type”:
(i) “Typefaces, such as Baskerville, Bookman, Times Roman, chosen for the higher legibility even in small sizes”  
BusinessDictionary
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/text-type.html
(ii) “Serif type face chosen to be legible in small sizes”
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