Once again, I am sitting here reading an E-mail from a potential adopter. There's not one capitalized proper noun, nor do any sentences begin with a capitol letter. Nor is there any punctuation for that matter (so I guess we can't capitalize the first word of a sentence when no period preceeded the sentence?)

So once again, here I sit, staring at the horrendous E-mail, wondering WHY they think I'm going to let them have a cat when they aren't considerate enough to form proper sentences? My thought is if they don't care enough to write properly, then how well could they care for the needs of my foster?

The same thing happens on Freecycle. I post an offer for somehing, say a bag of Cameron's old clothes. I can't tell you how many people write to me, "interested i can pu 2nite" --- I'm thinking "why shoud I give you consideration for the clothes when you can't give me enough consideration to put your request into proper Enlgish?" I mean, I'm giving you free stuff, and I'm chosing you among other needy people.

Sigh, am I simply old fashioned? Am I alone here? My daughter said she never punctuates, and I told her that a lot of people might not take her seriously because of it. I'm not talking about friends emailing or texting friends, I'm talking of strangers writing strangers about something.... whether its inquiring about a cat from a rescue or a bag of clothes.... shouldn't it include proper English?