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Topic: Writing Style
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Tue 08/30/11 11:28 AM

most definitely.
it's just annoying.
for ****ing sakes pleassssssse know the difference between your and you're.
correct spelling and grammar is basic stuff.
i'm sure some dislike the way i write,
but i blame it on ocd.



I don't mind the way you write. It's easy to read.

w0m4n's photo
Tue 08/30/11 12:05 PM
yes, particularly when they write to me

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Wed 08/31/11 06:10 AM
I was chatting with someone yesterday who didn't feel like using punctuation. However, a couple of his "questions" could have been statements as well and he'd get annoyed when I didn't answer the questions he was asking. I let him know that question marks would help differentiate between questions and statements and he got annoyed again. Needless to say, that conversation didn't last long.

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Wed 08/31/11 06:28 AM
It matters mostly to me because they seem to be able to spell expletives. It is such a turn off.

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Wed 08/31/11 07:01 AM

It matters mostly to me because they seem to be able to spell expletives. It is such a turn off.


Being able to spell expletives is a turn off?

wux's photo
Wed 08/31/11 07:25 AM



Does someone's writing style affect the way
you reply to them? Or how you think of them?
If someone has horrible spelling, grammar
and punctuation usage, do you care?

There should be a comma after grammar. indifferent

No, there shouldn't :-)

Depends on the school.

In North American classes,
they would tell you to put a comma there.

In Eyropian schools, in school boards
based on Austrian culture (such as in
Hungary, Slovakia, etc.) the teacher
does not want you to put a comma after
grammar. In any situation, not just in
the example above. ( I'm shtting you.
They tell you not to put a comma
before "and" in a list, but do put
a comma before "and" if the "and" is
coupling two sentences or clauses. Each
clause and each sentence has one verb,
that's how you can tell them from
other expressions.)

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Wed 08/31/11 07:33 AM
Edited by soufiehere on Wed 08/31/11 07:33 AM

It matters mostly to me because they
seem to be able to spell expletives.
It is such a turn off.

You must have x-ray vision to read
expletives..****, *****, **** ***...etc.

wux's photo
Wed 08/31/11 07:40 AM
Edited by wux on Wed 08/31/11 07:41 AM


It matters mostly to me because they
seem to be able to spell expletives.
It is such a turn off.

You must have x-ray vision to read
expletives..****, *****, **** ***...etc.


X-ray vision?

Body parts are not expletives.

"****", for instance. A doctor can
see it without your taking off your clothes.
If they are big enough, and stick out far
enough, everyone can tell you have them.
Yet that body part is not an expletive,
but some monikers that call it may be
classified in the "expletive" category.

Or, for instance, take a man's ****.
(Preferrably mine, for instance.)

Some people can't tell if it's a gun,
or a banana, or a ****, but people
with ex-ray vision can, and yet
this is not an expletive, either.

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Wed 08/31/11 07:47 AM




Does someone's writing style affect the way
you reply to them? Or how you think of them?
If someone has horrible spelling, grammar
and punctuation usage, do you care?

There should be a comma after grammar. indifferent

No, there shouldn't :-)

Depends on the school.

In North American classes,
they would tell you to put a comma there.

In Eyropian schools, in school boards
based on Austrian culture (such as in
Hungary, Slovakia, etc.) the teacher
does not want you to put a comma after
grammar. In any situation, not just in
the example above. ( I'm shtting you.
They tell you not to put a comma
before "and" in a list, but do put
a comma before "and" if the "and" is
coupling two sentences or clauses. Each
clause and each sentence has one verb,
that's how you can tell them from
other expressions.)


Which is exactly why I've decided to study abroad by taking my macroeconomics class in Antartica.

Not only will it expand my horizons, but maybe give me a better introspect of telepathically communicating with penguins.

wux's photo
Wed 08/31/11 07:52 AM
Edited by wux on Wed 08/31/11 07:53 AM
Penguins are a rare breed. Scientists are still trying to determine that when they talk to each other at length, in the presence of humans, what they are talking about.

Some of the well-accepted theories:

- They discuss why humans are not Roman Catholic nuns, like themselves. (Strange, huh?)

- They argue whether we came from old-old monkey-sex, or the Great Penguin in the sky created us.

- They argue whether they can believe their own eyes.

- They pray to each other for a warm summer.

They don't put a , before "and" after.

wux's photo
Wed 08/31/11 07:58 AM
Edited by wux on Wed 08/31/11 08:00 AM



..so one might pass up the love of their life over a few misspelled words or lack of punctuation..one would have to ask themselves ...which is more important....hhhmm....spock


This is very true.

I passed many loves up for this regrettable reason... also I passed up many others, for any one or more of the following reasons, which don't, by any means, represent a complete list: they were too short, or too tall, or too medium, or too bald, or too fat, or too poor, or too rich, or too good looking (hyphen, anyone?), or had a big mouth, or they were of a loose moral conviction, or were poor dressers, or had halitosis, or they burned the macaroni or cheese, or they beat me in Scrabble, or they threw out my used matchstick collection, or their mother was too sexy.

RainbowTrout's photo
Wed 08/31/11 08:01 AM
Edited by RainbowTrout on Wed 08/31/11 08:01 AM

Penguins are a rare breed. Scientists are still trying to determine that when they talk to each other at length, in the presence of humans, what they are talking about.

Some of the well-accepted theories:

- They discuss why humans are not Roman Catholic nuns, like themselves. (Strange, huh?)

- They argue whether we came from old-old monkey-sex, or the Great Penguin in the sky created us.

- They argue whether they can believe their own eyes.

- They pray to each other for a warm summer.

They don't put a , before "and" after.


Penquins use Linux, too. They impress me a lot. Heck, if you don't like somebody's code then make up your own. No sweat off our back. We live in the cold region anyway.laugh

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Wed 08/31/11 08:14 AM
From the journals of Dr. Archibald Bitchslap (who studied penguins for many years) it states that penguins are rather liberal. Which is why they can't fly; they have two left wings. At any rate, penguins have indeed adopted the whole global warming theory, and as a result are preparing for a mo better cold war.

fakey's photo
Sat 09/03/11 02:40 AM
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."

wux's photo
Sat 09/03/11 05:14 AM
Edited by wux on Sat 09/03/11 05:17 AM

yeh, content. personally i have a great vocab but am a lousy lowsy lowsie (bad) speller. at times i dumb it down for fear of mis spelling.

Try to get that chick, Miss Spelling, who will always show you the right way how to spell in life. In real time!!

If you ar balding at the same time, you get Miss Spalding, and Miss Salivating, and Miss Silicone-Queen if you want.

You know how it is... some guys get all the chicks.

I don't get any.

I dont' get it. Why?

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Sat 09/03/11 06:16 AM
if her writing is worse than mine, then I really feel sorry for her :tongue:

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