RobBright 35 Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Originally Posted By: gareth_oau If I type: I'm going to kill you I'm going to kill you both show a differnt message and without the emotricon you may not understand whether I'm joking or not. What's an "emotricon"? Me no understand. Link to post Share on other sites
spook 0 Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Originally Posted By: gareth_oau not necessarily spook, an internet forum is also a wealth of experiences and advice that people choose to share. i seek advice from others where they have had expereinces that I haven't - on holiday planning etc etc As you're here, we can presume that you are wanting to share your views, and the advantage in using grammar, punctuation and emoticons is that there is less likelihood of people misunderstanding what you are wanting to say. i understand that emoticons were originally created to help avoid the the potential confusion created by an emotionless line of text. If I type: I'm going to kill you I'm going to kill you both show a differnt message and without the emotricon you may not understand whether I'm joking or not. Sorry Gareth. If you look at your post above, you'll kindly notice that you haven't used consistent grammar - for instance, not all your sentences were capitalised correctly. Despite this, I still read your post in full, and have taken your points into consideration. I will endeavour to make myself more clearly understood in future. MitchPee - don't worry about what your future holds. So long as you capitalise your sentences correctly, you'll be fine. Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Originally Posted By: JA Originally Posted By: spook grammar... bah. i'm gen y GN. i don't need no education i do need a haircut though. i'm pretty much unemployable The trouble with "to hell with grammar" attitude is that it alienates a whole lot of people. If you want people to read what you write (and there really isn't any point writing it if you don't) you need to cater tio the way OTHERS will react. For instance, I tried to read your post, got a little way in and decided "This is too much of a hassle, I'm not going to bother!" If you had anything intelligible, sensible, revelatory to say, I missed it and will likely NEVER know. You may have been the most insightful poster here, but very few people will notice if you don't do some capitalisation,grammar things. i aint got no problem with nothing spook rights here!! Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Just taking the piss JA. Your right, Spook needs to get a hair cut, get a real job and improve his grammar. He's a disgrace really. Link to post Share on other sites
gareth_oau 2 Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Originally Posted By: spook Sorry Gareth. If you look at your post above, you'll kindly notice that you haven't used consistent grammar - for instance, not all your sentences were capitalised correctly. Despite this, I still read your post in full, and have taken your points into consideration. I will endeavour to make myself more clearly understood in future. Aha, see, I've managed to convert you already - saw your My lack of caps is partially due to laziness and partially due to a dodgy keyboard. I'm deFinitely, not A grammar-policeman"?,,, but just feel a Reasonable. Use will, help to avoid confusion Link to post Share on other sites
spook 0 Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 well, glad that's all sorted then Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I purposely kept out of this thread in order to not degenerate it. Link to post Share on other sites
gerard 6 Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I thought you'd be the first one in on this thread, Uncle Thursday. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Originally Posted By: Mantas Just taking the piss JA. Your right, Spook needs to get a hair cut, get a real job and improve his grammar. He's a disgrace really. Noted, mantas. You'll get yours - someday! I didn't mention anything about the hair or job. My comments about grammar stand, though. Not just here, a deterioration of grammar is endemic. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 I keep telling myself that things would be much less exciting if it was all planned out. I almost believe it too. Link to post Share on other sites
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