Internet typing: punctuation & grammar?

Treevly · Aug 11, 2020

I think the non-capitalization thing started with Google deciding that most people has enough trouble with spelling and that capitals complicated things. It went from there. Journalists and others who professionally appear in print might be literate enough, but the masses are not, thinks Google.

I always respected and appreciated the English language, and if I spoke another language, I would probably feel the same way about that one.

If I see anything - title, paragraph, story, thread, post, etc. - which lacks punctuation or capitals where appropriate, I just zip on by and don't read it. There is a lot of good stuff to read out there.

St. Phatty · Aug 11, 2020

Treevly said:
If I see anything - title, paragraph, story, thread, post, etc. - which lacks punctuation or capitals where appropriate, I just zip on by and don't read it. There is a lot of good
stuff to read out there.

i concentrate on spelling and grammar.

what gets me is people often use less, when they should use fewer.

it's a fine detail, it's like understanding a detail in a widely used programming language, no big deal.

# of course we could start our comments with number signs

America needs a President who can spell

super cali fragilistic expial idotious.

it's a word from a Julie Andrews move.

mean mr.mustard · Aug 11, 2020

I'd marry her poppins...

Storm Shadow · Aug 11, 2020

Pig Beenus

Bud Green · Aug 11, 2020

I agree with the OP..

Therefore, look at your 13th word and correct it to "had" or "have"... :biggrin:

(just fuckin' with you!)

..

CosmicGiggle · Aug 11, 2020

What I hate are long-winded posts expressing complicated ideas with no spaces between the paragraphs. :tongue:

unclefishstick · Aug 11, 2020

mean mr.mustard said:
I'd marry her poppins...

'member that movie
where

she showed

her

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t
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?
:tongue:

mean mr.mustard · Aug 11, 2020

I watched The Sound Of Music....

No tits.

:dunno:

nepalnt21 · Aug 11, 2020

there was a poet i read in high school that chose to forego capitalization (i forget)

something stuck with me about it, and ever since i found capitals to be aesthetically unpleasing.

i use them rarely, such as for plural acronyms - ATMs, etc.

now if i am writing formally... email to a boss, etc... i do end up channeling my english 121 coursework.

nepalnt21 · Aug 11, 2020

CosmicGiggle said:
What I hate are long-winded posts expressing complicated ideas with no spaces between the paragraphs.

or run on sentences with absolutely no grammar? i usually just skim for keywords and take a guess as to what they mean.

buzzmobile · Aug 11, 2020

nepalnt21 said:
there was a poet i read in high school that chose to forego capitalization (i forget)

Here's a reminder for you:

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]
By E. E. Cummings

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

Ringodoggie · Aug 11, 2020

There is a reason for illiteracy in this country. I drove by the school up the street and the sign in front of the school said,

"C U IN SEPT."

And, you wonder why the kids can't spell.

.

EsterEssence · Aug 11, 2020

I skip posts with the run on sentences, there is supposed to be a space after punctuation, that is if they even use punctuation...

St. Phatty · Aug 11, 2020

EsterEssence said:
I skip posts with the run on sentences, there is supposed to be a space after punctuation, that is if they even use punctuation...

Wall of Text is hard to read.

Treevly · Aug 11, 2020

St. Phatty said:
Wall of Text is hard to read.

'Wall of text..... Good one.

Mr. J · Aug 11, 2020

The worst are the people from England. I know it's cliche to point out the fact that you guys invented the damn language but come on. You need to do better.

Switcher56 · Aug 11, 2020

EsterEssence said:
I skip posts with the run on sentences, there is supposed to be a space after punctuation, that is if they even use punctuation...

As I. If you don't have the time to properly format a post. I don't have the time to read it. IMHO a lot transpires from "phone jockeys"!

Switcher56 · Aug 11, 2020

Ringodoggie said:
There is a reason for illiteracy in this country. I drove by the school up the street and the sign in front of the school said,

"C U IN SEPT."

And, you wonder why the kids can't spell.
.

While yelling at us nonetheless!

nepalnt21 · Aug 12, 2020

buzzmobile said:
Here's a reminder for you:

that's it.

funny, i never really cared for poetry all that much, until i started really listening to mf doom.

Douglas.Curtis · Aug 13, 2020

It's A lot, not alot. Nobody types alittle yet...

Loose is your neighbor's daughter, or the screen door, which as been slammed too many times. Lose is what most people do when they play poker. (Yes, I use a graphic description to slam my point home... k?)

The two most commonly used typos I've seen explode across the internet the last couple decades, since AOHell connected their bullshit to the main internet. (AOHell allowed any ignorant moron to connect to the net with a mouse-click. Before then it was almost guaranteed your chat partner had an IQ of, at the very least, 100.)

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