Wow, reading skills people.
Those below, who were perturbed by my comment need to work on your reading and thinking skills before commenting on my opinion of writing.
Ever heard of straw man attack, in terms of logic? I said focus on spelling and word usage should be second at best, I did not say not last.
The importance of words usage and order should be the Audience (ie: professional audience vs general audience)> context (ie: imitating dialect, making a pun, new words for new things.) > everything else.
Also comments below that say they are irritated by made up words. News Flash! All words are made up. Just because some nerd hasnt put them in his dictionary, doesn't mean its not a word. Ironic to my point I will quote from the random house dictionary on what a word is " A unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. ".
The main point is, word usage is not a measure of intelligence, only a measure of familiarity and conformity to a culture. And those who are offended by that thought should youtube (dear god! another made up word), videos about the famous Millgram's conformity experiments.
For example, if you think your kid is like, gosh a delinquint lazy bone dumdumb. it is likely that they are conforming to their culture, or peers, rather than yours. That is the truth of why "new" words are offensive to many of you.
