????? :rolleyes: Exhibit A. What is a msn habbit? :eek:
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????? :rolleyes: Exhibit A. What is a msn habbit? :eek:
Oh bang bang, I did make some spelling mistakes :o and with Karens help I fixed them. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by kitten645
An msn habit is when you type in a slang way like sry,pls,ur,tmrow,w/e ect..
I thought that I was just easier confused lately. I sometimes can't make sense out of some post at all. I read them and read them and sit here scratching my head trying to figure out what in the world they were even trying to say..and most of them were in full written words. The ones in that instant message garb, I just don't even bother with.
I suggest you take time to read and re-read what you are posting and ask yourself some questions like;
1- Will this make sense to other people?
2- Was I clear on making my point?
3- How hard will this be for others to understand?
:) I am simply delighted to find this thread! I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one here who gets incredibly peeved at
peoplewhotypelikethis and don't use caps or even just a simple period for pete sakes and i even pmed one of them and asked her to use punctuation but of course she ignored me so now i don't read her posts do you think that was mean of me or did i do the right thing well we all have our own way so don't bug me
on and on and on! :mad:
Phew! Thanks for letting me get that off my chest! Yes, I think proper English is doomed, it's just a matter of time before all the rules get thrown out. :rolleyes: Hmmm, do they still teach Grammer in school? Maybe the English programs got cut...
I think the hardest thing is the punctuation and capitalization. You have no idea where one thought ends and the other begins. One can generally sound out a misspelling but when the entire post hasn't any punctuation or capitalization, that really throws me for a loop! :eek: Even when comma's are or aren't used appropriately, it takes several reads to figure it out and frankly who has that kind of time? :rolleyes:
Cyber-sibes, I believe that when certain member's posts have been ignored so many times, they might make an effort eventually - or simply leave this board out of lack of responces. ;)
I've replied before, but I just wanted to say that I completely agree with Cyber-Sibes. The misspellings I can handle, well to a certain extent, but the run-on sentences are what confuse me most. I find it quite sad how some people talk online. I mean, it's one of their first impressions on their intelligence. People who don't know you and then they see you 'tipe lyk dis', well they won't think very highly of you. I'm not saying that you get negative impressions when you type without proper grammar, I'm just saying that people have more respect for you when you type properly.
Ok, the things that bug me the most (EXAMPLES):
1) "lyk OMG guys did u c dat? it wuz totlly crzy!!!!!!!!!!"
2) "hey my dog is sick what can i do to help him should i take him to the vet or what i'm soooo worried"
3) "HEY!!!! I'M NEW HERE! I HAVE A DOG NAMED FLUFFY! HE IS SOOO CUTE! OMG I'M SURE YOU WOULD TOTALLY LOVE HIM!"
Those are the things that annoy me the most. A few other things annoy me, but I can't think of how to put them into the examples. :p
I have a friend who teaches 3rd grade English. She was instructed not to correct the student's spelling, punctuation, grammar, etc. when the students have a creative writing assignment. Seems all that marking up and red ink would "damage their fragile self esteem" and "impede the creative process". :rolleyes: So, now we have a generation of kids who can't write, can't spell, can't form a complete sentence but who think they are just perfect and wonderful. :rolleyes: They have no idea what the rules are and could care less. Just another example of the dumbing down of the system. Classes are now geared for the slowest/common denominator. We have 3 family members who are teachers (grammar, middle and college). All of them are very frustrated and feel like their main job is to babysit. Not teach.Quote:
Originally Posted by cyber-sibes
So true! For several years, I taught legal research and writing to first-year law students. I was shocked to discover how many people managed to get through grade school, high school, and college without ever learning how to use a comma! I tried to persuade them that many judges do, in fact, understand spelling and grammar and are likely to find a legal brief that's full of errors in basic English to be less than convincing. But I met with mixed success.Quote:
Originally Posted by kuhio98
One law student actually told me that he didn't need to be able to write correctly because he'd have a secretary to take care of that! I asked him how he could expect the U.S. educational system to have taught his secretary how to write when it had failed to teach him how to do it.
What bothers me the MOST is when people type up a long post and don't bother to break it into paragraphs, so the rest of us have to muddle through a HUGE block of text.
I don't see that here often, but on some other boards it's really frustrating.
That's why my boss asked me to take a legal writing class many years ago. Now I'm a paralegal and that's exactly what I do. I'm the one who's supposed to catch the attorneys' poor grammar and spelling. English and spelling were always my strong areas anyway, so it's not a big deal. It just shocks me to see the quality, or lack thereof, of writing we receive from other law firms.Quote:
Originally Posted by CatsinDenver
I agree in some ways. It is very hard to read poorly-written posts, especially if you are not very farmilliar with the language. I find it equally difficult to read posts where people include extremely complicated words that only Tesla would know. (I especially dislike this when those words are not in my English/French dictionary )
I usually re-read my posts, but I often cannot find my own mistakes. You also have to consider that not all posters are american, thus, English is not all of our first languages. I've only been studying English since septembre 2005, and I'm sure I must have bad grammar and/or spelling often. I think I've got the hang of commas, Right? :p
:p You know, it would be a lot easier if all you guys would just learn russian. :p
I'm not really inclined to believe that an attorney who's too lazy or lacking in attention to detail to use proper English is going to do a great job in the legal research, analysis, and fact-checking departments either. Of course, too many lawyers think that those things are the paralegal's job as well--and that their work consists entirely of schmoozing clients on the golf course and showing up in the courtroom to wave at the judge. But that's a whole 'nother rant.Quote:
Originally Posted by RedHedd
I think I have the more interesting job and I get to go home at 5:00 :)Quote:
Originally Posted by CatsinDenver
Egads! My grammer school teachers never minded giving me back pages covered in red ink and it never stopped my creativity. (Nor taught me how to spell - that's not the teachers' fault; that's mine! :rolleyes: ) What it did teach me was the correct way to use grammer and put words together for which my editors were very grateful!Quote:
Originally Posted by kuhio98
It's hard to get published and no matter how creative you are, editors aren't even going to LOOK at it if you haven't used correct grammer, punctation, etc.
*sigh* If we don't teach them to use words and language correctly in schools, how are we to expect them to do so on a message board?