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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Electron cloud
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With 5 mins between classes who has time to be picky?
It's not like we're trying to write Noble prize winning treatises here |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:46 am Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
i may not bother to capitalize or punctuate a lot these days but i'm at least vigilant about spelling and attentive to grammar
there's a big difference between making a mistake and choosing a style |
Good point. |
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alphakennyone
Joined: 01 Aug 2005
Location: city heights
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:35 am Post subject: |
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| BreakfastInBed wrote: |
Oh, but successful communication is all that matters!
I can usually get what I want with grunts and gestures. Shall I be satisfied with that?
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How's your Korean coming along? Or do you mostly communicate in broken English/Korean...and...gestures. |
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beercanman
Joined: 16 May 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:54 am Post subject: |
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| Write well if you have time. Otherwise, well, wait until later, when you have time. I agree that people should write well even if this is just a forum. |
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Bronski
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:57 am Post subject: |
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| BreakfastInBed wrote: |
I can usually get what I want with grunts and gestures. Shall I be satisfied with that?
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Right, because consciously substituting "i" for "I" is equivalent to the difference between "May I have a glass of water?" and "ME WANT GIMME OOGA BOOGA!"
I can be smarmy and sarcastic, too!
Do people like BreakfastInBed ask a lot rhetorical questions and then answer them? Yes.
Does this annoy me? A little.
Is it necessary to separate related ideas into so many paragraphs?
Probably not.
But I'm not going to cry about it. Yes, I began that sentence with a contraction.
2 XTREME |
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AmericanExile
Joined: 04 May 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:10 am Post subject: |
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| DorkothyParker wrote: |
| I am feisty and should bed. |
Now that is a fantastic sentence. This should be a Korean T-shirt.
Goodnight Feisty.
Goodnight Mary Ellen. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Bronski wrote: |
| But I'm not going to cry about it. Yes, I began that sentence with a contraction. |
You began it with a what now?
I can overlook non-capitalizers and, despite annoyance, sometimes even people who use "u" and "ur", because I can usually still make sense of what they're writing. It's the (rare) posters who write 20-line paragraphs without a break that I don't even bother to read. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| Bronski wrote: |
| But I'm not going to cry about it. Yes, I began that sentence with a contraction. |
You began it with a what now? |
He must have missed this. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| lithium wrote: |
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to the OP:
do you text message with capital letters? |
She asked a question. |
I'm not female. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:37 pm Post subject: Re: What's with the recent spate of non-capitalizers? |
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| I'm genuinely curious about why someone who purports to make a living educating someone in the English language would choose to make all of their posts without capital letters or punctuation. It really does distract from whatever the message is supposed to be. |
"purports"? give me a break. |
That word irks you, yet you say nothing about spate? |
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Bronski
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Conjunction. Oopsie. |
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harlowethrombey
Joined: 17 Mar 2009
Location: Seoul
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ekul
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I think it's better to properly punctuate and capitalise as often as you can. It improves your typing speed drastically when you really need to get something done. When I was younger I spent a lot of time on IRC not punctuating or capitalising anything. Even though I could type at 50 wpm I made so many mistakes when trying to type properly. After I realised that I started typing as often as I could be bothered correctly. Now I still type at 50wpm but with only 1% error. |
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Koveras
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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i can construct an "off-the-wall" internet personality too
miniscule is my lyfe |
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DorkothyParker
Joined: 11 Apr 2009
Location: Jeju
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| AmericanExile wrote: |
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Now that is a fantastic sentence. This should be a Korean T-shirt.
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I know. I am:
2 Cute
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4 Gotten. AmIright? |
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