Dear Mr Jacob Pratap,
It appears that you have joined recently. Welcome to the forum!
Coming to your reply. You have written that "The person who is poor in English language should not be looked down upon just because he committed some grammatical mistakes." Nobody has looked down upon the fellow member for his/her poor English. Thousands of egregious posts exists on this forum and their long-time availability without any protest is the evidence of the fact that senior members have tried understanding the point, without bothering much about quality of English. These posts is also a evidence of the liberal mindset of the seniors or those who value quality English!
However, the larger point is if seniors do not bring to the notice of juniors about poor quality of the posts, who else will? This is a forum for HR community wherein people help one another by sharing knowledge. Criticism, is it not a knowledge-sharing activity?
Should we be in agreement with the fellow member forever?
Every forum needs to have some professional standards otherwise, it goes haywire. However, members take the forum for granted. Amidst this, if we remember dialogue in the Hindi film "don't go to the words. Have you understood the meaning" then will it not be rationalisation with the poor quality? Life on the silver screen cannot be mixed with the real life. Please note that today's rationalisation could be tomorrow's justification.
India has moved far ahead. We are in 21st century and there are many companies who produce world-class products or services. However, these companies have attained their pinnacle of excellence because of their deadly commitment to the quality. Quality need not be restricted only for the production of goods but it has to be made way of life. In the personal capacity also when a person writes, it reflects one's commitment to quality.
Partially problem also arises because of the inability to distinguish between when to be formal and when to be informal. Informality has been ingrained in the blood of younger generation that they consider anything and everything is informal. The collateral damage of this attitude is the demolition of the standards which were developed long ago. Those who take pride in maintaining these well-established standards, when they cannot reconcile with this demolition, are they at fault?
Seniors' objection is limited to laziness of the junior members. Does it require great effort to write a post on MS Word and then copy and paste it? In fact most of the browsers have spell-check facility. Does it require a great intellect to click on the word with red underline and correct it?
For Mr Vinayak Nagarkar: - You have raised objection on the poor quality of English of the seniors. It could be valid also. Sometimes, I have uploaded my posts without reading them and when I read those later, I found several mistakes in them. However, this happens because of the two reasons. One is that we are not professional typists and secondly, we are supposed to write a reply, take a printout, identify mistakes and then correct the soft copy of the draft and then upload it. It may not be possible to do this for each post. However, mistake is mistake and I carried sense of guilt for uploading posts without error-check. There cannot be any justification for writing incorrectly, whether by seniors or juniors.
Thanks,
Dinesh Divekar