With technologies such as texting, instant messaging and spell-checking, do you need to worry much about grammar and proper use of language to succeed today?

• Getting your hands dirty and getting the job done are more important than using fancy words.

• As long as you get jobs that don't require you to write a lot, it doesn't matter.

• People who can't write and speak well limit their careers.

• Spell-checkers and grammar-checkers make it unnecessary to waste time learning that stuff.