How important is it for someone to be good at grammar when talking to you on text?

[Passing_by]

[Fireguy17]

Pretty important.
My mother was an English teacher, so I was raised being taught how to speak correctly, and it stuck.

[In_Trance]

It's extremely important. The concern is that a lot of people don't know better. If you do when you want to use shorthand that's ok. If you don't have a firm grip on the basic I'm out

[KatherineJ]

I can’t stand “text speak”.