Folks -

Am I missing something here? This seems like a very reasonable topic.
I'm not sure why people are getting upset here.

This is such a common mistake, I can't imagine that this is singling one
user out. But if I'm wrong, please message me privately.

Either way, everyone on this topic needs to calm down...

Lion I agree with you. This is a forum. People should feel free to post
they want to talk. Not everything needs to be about Punctuation or
proper grammar. I type the way I talk. That is how I feel comfortable
about it. I am not hear to graded or anything I am here to have fun and
not have to worry about little things.

i wasnt saying what i do is right or wrong.i was just saying im guilty
as hell of being really bad with my english grammer and punctuation.used
to drive my dad nuts cause hes a linguist and an english major.lol i was
really just trying to lighten the mood.

"Folks -

Am I missing something here? This seems like a very reasonable topic.
I'm not sure why people are getting upset here.

This is such a common mistake, I can't imagine that this is singling one
user out. But if I'm wrong, please message me privately.

Either way, everyone on this topic needs to calm down..."

Thanks. The only one who could tell you whether or not you are wrong is
me, as I'm the one who created the thread and know my reasons for so
doing. And I've already explained that in subsequent posts, so no need
to email you to tell you about it. I appreciate your comments; thank
you.

ok now everyone give a and hug...no more unneeded yucky
stuff...

Hummm, well I will have to admit myself that I do not see anything wrong
with this post either. I know that I'm not the best when I'm typing on
getting the punctiuation correct. And hell on the run on sentences too.
But I do try and get them corret as well as spelling. Not till I went to
college in my thirty's did I finally started to get my spelling down for
I'm real bad at spelling. But when I read others words I do not ever
correct them. But will admit some are soooo bad that I can not
understand what they are trying to get across as there point for the
spelling is so bad but now I would not tell them out right. lol Hummm
but my pet peeves go when someone lies to you ohhhh now talking about
grrrrrrrrrrr that sets me off quick lol or playing dumb God gave you a
brain use it for gawds sake lol. Now I did have a friend correct me on
the words won't and want ohhhh he would get me soo bad for using the
wrong one and I try so har to get the right one when I say I want
something lol. Actually good topic and it does help when your writing a
letter to get your punctuation correct you would not believe how well
you can get a point across if your spelling is correct makes a world of
differnce.

PUNCTUATION!!! My brother died from poor
PUNCTUATION!!! AAAAHHHH!!!!!

wow. this is an intense thread. my grammatical pet peeve is people who
put periods outside of quotation marks...

QUOTATION MARKS !!!! My Mother was bludgeoned by a QUOTATION
MARK!!!! AAAAHHHHH!!!!

My pet punctuation peeve is "emoticons". The other would be extra-lazy
capitlization be it all lower case, or all upper case.

C'mon people there were four-hundred years of european warfare over the
dominance of the Greeco-Roman "upper-case" vs the northern rebellious
miniscule. People died for your right to use either case, so, please,
out of respect, use the right case. Dont let western civilization die
like the Roman Empire who refused to get out of that Upper-Case
mentality.

Do it for the children!

Improper use of prepositions. A preposition is a bad thing to end a
sentence with.

The "z's" have it. Sayz ne whoz dis idiotz?!?!?!

What the hell?!?! Is that suppose to be a ciphered message or something?

There is nothing wrong with ending a sentence with a preposition

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The often heard but misleading “rule” that a sentence should not end
with a preposition is transferred from Latin, where it is an accurate
description of practice. But English grammar is different from Latin
grammar, and the rule does not fit English. In speech, the final
preposition is normal and idiomatic, especially in questions: What are
we waiting for? Where did he come from? You didn't tell me which floor
you worked on. In writing, the problem of placing the preposition arises
most when a sentence ends with a relative clause in which the relative
pronoun (that; whom; which; whomever; whichever; whomsoever) is the
object of a preposition. In edited writing, especially more formal
writing, when a pronoun other than that introduces a final relative
clause, the preposition usually precedes its object: He abandoned the
project to which he had devoted his whole life. I finally telephoned the
representative with whom I had been corresponding. If the pronoun is
that, which cannot be preceded by a preposition, or if the pronoun is
omitted, then the preposition must occur at the end: The librarian found
the books that the child had scribbled in. There is the woman he spoke
of.

sheila, i have to agree...many things bug the heck out of me in printed
form.

i can't stand run-on paragraphs, lol...the ones that should have been
broken into four or five easy to manage ones, but instead go on and on
for days. i don't like dangling participles, or quotation marks used
for apostrophes...or incorrect usage of possessives.

incorrect spellings make my teeth ache. being in the online world, i
try to get past such things, and i always try to remember that there
might be a valid reason BEHIND such errors.

I say drink more coffee to reduce the stress level,.;'.!!

LOL..yeah, the perfect stress reducer...caffeine. haha

Let the lady make her point, this is the land of the free.

I say Let''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''s play ball