Is your keyboard broken?

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

What I don't understand is the annoyance of....... and ??????
I do this all the time,

you then........ are worse than the devil!!!!!!!

More like war Lucas

[21QUEST]

Originally Posted by plowsie

...snip...I apologise if this does annoy people.

I know you don't really mean that...yeah, heard you mutter something different

How is your mental Arithmetic big guy? ....I sense a thread on that comig up lol



Ben

Originally Posted by 21QUEST

How is your mental Arithmetic big guy lol

Awful!

LMAO I do this sometimes !!!!!

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

Oh yeah and I pulled you up about your posts That was funny

I know But the difference between a slip of the keyboard and a complete lack of basic punctuation etc, is rather annoying.........
.....that was the point of that particular thread.....



....and you knows it!

[21QUEST]

Originally Posted by plowsie

Awful!

Ooh!!! you should be ...




Ben

Originally Posted by Sid Squid

Do you accidentally put sixteen question or exclamation marks where one is the right amount?

Do you accidentally confuse 'amount' and 'number'?

Originally Posted by plowsie

More like war Lucas

差不多

Initialisms like HTH, IIRC, AFAIK are not standard English phrases but they are used frequently in an internet forum context.

CAPITALISATION does not mean shouting in a textbook, but it does on an internet forum.

Multiple exclamation marks are generally not seen in your typical novel but here they can convey varying degrees of shock or surprise.

Becoming a pedant on an internet forum really is a waste of time, language used in such an informal setting will never be used correctly by everyone.

Just be grateful we all use what can loosely be described as English, a language that is changing all the time, and has been doing so for the last 1500 years.

English is merely what the speaker and listener agree on as English. No rules are set in stone with most being merely guidelines created by observing generally accepted usage.

As a reader you adjust your expectations and interpretation of the text based on the source of the material.

A broadsheet reads very differently from a tabloid newspaper.

A 19th century novel reads very differently from a modern day comic book.

An academic paper reads differently to an internet forum.

etc, ad nauseum...

If you don't understand someone, ask them for a clarification. If you don't care ignore them and just get on with it.

Anyway, forums posts are more akin to natural speech than crafted prose and should not be subject to the same rigorous application of punctuation and grammar.

Do you always speak in a grammatically correct manner?