On that note, I'm going back to bed.

 

Rob, I agree with you on this part, if we are talking in general. You have to admit, however, that if folks start a thread asking for free advice or help, they should have the courtesy of spending a little bit of time detailing their problem(s). Right or wrong, my intial response to a thread usually mimics that of the first post.

 

Honestly though this is the internet not english class. Most people could care less if you get a little butt hurt cause someone had a small run on sentence.

 

Dave (and partly to Mitsu, as well),

The use of texting/IM'ing in this day and age is obviously going to have an effect on the written language, but also look at the context in which it appears. Cell phone text is typically a couple of lines, not long descriptions of problems, stories, etc. I can muddle my way through 2-4 lines of bastardized text on a cell phone as the number of characters is typically 40-50 spread across a 15-20 character-wide screen. Expand that to several hundred or more on a computer screen and it becomes increasingly difficult to follow (hence the reason newsprint is split into smaller columns, faster reading and recognition).

As I said before, I don't mind a bastardized sentence or two... slang talk, if you will, a misplaced comma. Mistakes due to speed typing, lack of intense thought, etc. can be easily skipped over and forgiven. But to write entire paragraphs like that? It's just silly...

 

[QUOTE=MitsukillinS2K,Jun 22 2008, 11:21 AM] Honestly though this is the internet not english class.

 

Ok I see where your coming from. At first I thought this was supposed to be an english class held by you. I know what your saying a I have tried to start typing better sentences. I am in no way an english major. I have taken one college english course. I know what your getting at but not everyone has been privy to months and years of schooling just so they can put there opinions in an internet forum

 

FTR, I do not have any college and I almost didn't receive a high school diploma. Why? Because I almost didn't pass English composition... twice.

 

Does that mean you passed it twice?

 

Nope. Failed the first time because I never turned a paper in, but aced every test. The second time taking it, I believe a "D" was given to me to allow me to graduate. That was a second-semester, junior year course. I had to take it again second semester my senior year. Meanwhile, I took AP English, also. Oh, and was kicked out of my house Jan 1 of my senior year. I worked 40hrs/wk and lived with three different families in rotation(2 weeks each time) until I graduated high school. I did not have my own car, so I either walked(which was most of the time) or bummed rides.

 

Up hill, both ways, in the snow, and we ate gravel for lunch, and we liked it!