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1st June 2016 #1
Full Stops Falling Out Of Fashion, Due To Instant Messaging
... first it was commas ... and now this!
For someone like me, who - from as far back as I can remember - has constantly taken pride in my grammatical presentation of written/typed/printed words, this news is anathema.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...ant-messaging/
Note, in the thread title, I have changed the word thanks (which appears in the link) to 'due' ... to instant messaging. This is because, I've "sweet Fanny Adams" to thank whoever dreamt up such a notion, for!Last edited by Arthur Little; 1st June 2016 at 20:33. Reason: Removed asterisks.
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1st June 2016 #2
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We all have different standards. I don't see any need to lower mine to accommodate the ignorant .
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I'm not perfect with my punctuation but I do my best, I try not to abbreviate any words either when having any written communication
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I'm far from perfect too Michael.
It's those who just don't care, who pee me off.
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1st June 2016 #5
It's just little things that need thinking about.
Apostrophes, use them.
There, their, they're, know the difference.
To, two, too. I gave my extra two beers to Fred as I'd had too much
Whose and who's.
Know and no.
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Oh *there're plenty others; (, Michael ... I've rolled two words into one with *there!) But take, for example, "of & off" which also spring to mind.
Anyway ... ... how can one expect separate sentences in a passage to be fully understood by reader(s) in the absence of correct puntuation and when there's no proper ending to a jumble of words simply strung together?
little dot exists for a purpose!
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1st June 2016 #10
Seem the new thing is all the Emot's. It gets hard to read a thread sometimes when there are so many
If you want your dreams to come true ...... first you have to wake up
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Take a look at this paragraph. Can you read what it says? All the letters have been jumbled (mixed). Only the first and last letter of ecah word is in the right place:
I cnduo't bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty uesdtannrd waht I was rdnaieg. Unisg the icndeblire pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Aaznmig, huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghhuot slelinpg was ipmorantt! See if yuor fdreins can raed tihs too.
Can you read this , it makes perfect sense to me
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2nd June 2016 #18
Yaeh it deos mkae pcefret ssene. Azaming!!
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2nd June 2016 #19
You missed an 'L' out on couldn't, but apart from that it was totally legible
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My current pet hate: 'Loose' instead of 'LOSE' !
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I have often wondered what's it like being perfect,
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There used to be an OCD grammar moderator,we never found out who he was,not publicly anyway,but he insisted on moderating peoples posts unasked,glad he stopped as are several others
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
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