Sorry for the all caps title, but in this case it's warranted. I'm willing to forgive language barrier as at least they have a valid excuse, but frankly I'm seeing more and more posts, especially in HTML/CSS that I cannot make head nor tail of. THEN you find out that they live in the midwest and it's like whiskey tango baker foxtrot. I don't like to think of myself as a grammar snob - but DAMN people, when there are no verbs, adjectives or even interrogatives, it is almost impossible to find a question much less a point to some of these posts. Sweet morphine hopped up bloody Mary and Joseph. It's bad when the eurotrash art ***'s we make fun of type better english than the domestics. I mean, web design is (or at least I thought it was) a technical skill or at least required some form of logical flow - Hmm, maybe this explains the code some people seem to vomit up and call a website, or the rabid popularity of dreamweaver / frontpage / expression / lazy assed sleazeball flavor of the month WYSIWYG. Just venting - there have been several times the past week I've felt like going all Samuel L. Jackson on folks.
I somewhat doubt that there is such a relation between the quality of your website and your ability to speak English, primarily due to the vast diversity of DP forums. However, i do think that more users could use a bit more effort when it comes to their grammar. I guess it is just pore laziness that will eventually backfire on them anyway.
Depends what you mean by 'real' English. Obviously nobody speaks pre-conquest Anglo-Saxon or the English of Chaucer, and even Shakesperian English sounds stilted. In fact one of the oldest examples of English still being spoken is in the original United States (the bit that used to be British). As well as the preservation of the long 'R' sound in words like beerrrrr and fearrrrr they've preserved old English words such as 'Fall' for Autumn and the verb 'to skedaddle'.
The funny thing about Shakespearean English is that Shakespeare invented many of the words in his works, including some words that are still common today. Very few people speak English with the pronunciation listed in the OED. I believe one study found that certain parts of Kentucky in the United States come the closest. People tend to incorrectly lump Kentucky in with the South, which is notorious for their mangled accents. Johnny Depp is an example of a Kentuckian who speaks nearly-proper English. I think English skills are important if you are building a website in English. Native speakers can always recognize when someone does not know English very well or when they are using a computer translator.
Today English is one of the major languages in the world, but in Shakespeare's time for example, only a few million people spoke English, and the language was not thought to be very important by the other nations of Europe, and was unknown to the rest of the world. English has become a world language because of its establishment as a mother tongue outside England, in all continents of the world. Exporting of English began in the seventeenth century, with the first settlements in North America. The great growth of population in the US assisted by massive immigration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, that has given to the English language its present standing in the world.
I've blogged about this a few times (here and here) but I still have yet to even really imagine where the Internet and technology are taking the English language. They are both making us native speakers talk weird! Especially speakers of real English (British ) - one example that I gave is the fact that I have to give voice commands to my mobile phone with an American accent, or it won't work!! Now that is scary!! Not to mention that I have to use "Merkin" spellings, like "color" etc. for SEO reasons! Arrghh! I feel so dirty!