Latinus Mortuus Sed Anglicus Vivus Est

Latin is Dead But English is Alive

I am not a stickler for grammar. I really don't care if someone mistakes fewer and less or take and bring (except that I keep track in my head for conversations with Grammar Sticklers). I care about your/you're, their/they're/there, etc., though, because one should not need to reread basic sentences to figure out what the hell is going on. That's why attention to spelling and grammar is important. UR might seem nice and easy, but is it you are or yer (your)? I type "yer" sometimes 'cause sometimes I say yer. (I also occasionally type "yers" instead of yes, but only in text messages.) Numbers replacing words is sometimes okay, but is 4 supposed to be four or for? People who use textspeak really should proofread their missives for clarity, but if they're using this slang they probably don't feel they have time to make sure they're clear.
But isn't that the reason for sentence structure?
Case in point: I had to retype a Facebook comment because I typed "to" instead of "too". There is a great deal of confusion that can be caused by mixing up the two because (and promise not to tell any Grammar Sticklers out there) I split my infinitives.
Why do I split my infinitives, you ask? Because attempting to shoehorn Latin "rules" into the English language  is absolutely ridiculous. Even ignoring the fact that word order in Latin is not really consequential for the most part, the "split infinitive" rule would imply that the Latin preposition "ad" is used for infinitives, which it is not. Each infinitive verb in Latin is denoted by a single form of the verb. It's impossible to "split" a Latin infinitive since they didn't use spaces between words, or punctuation; if you add a word into an infinitive it would change the word completely (therefore, absofrigginglutely is impossible, unfortunately).
So, I split my infinitives, because emphasis is much more important to me than following made up grammatical rules--"to boldly go" sounds a lot better than "to go boldly".
But because I split my infinitives, I need to carefully guard my use of "to". "Too boldly go" sounds like a command to saunter forth very confidently, it's not the same as how one conducts one's mission "to boldly go" . And making that use clear is important.
Making your speech or writing clear is important--in fact, as far as I can see, it's the only important use of grammar, spelling and sentence structure. It is perhaps fun to catch out errors in published works, or to determine how much more "correct" a rephrasing could be; but it's no more important than identifying the ten differences between pictures in a children's magazine. So I should appreciate it if those who, like me, adore words, would be so kind as to shut the hell up about the rules of grammar that do not apply and are not necessary in modern communication. Encouraging interest in communication, reading and writing cannot be accomplished by tying down the eager with restrictive rules and regulations. If it could there would be more Math majors, instead of less.

Grammar is dead, long live grammar.