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Kyobanim
06-16-2006, 07:10
I know everyone's got one. What bugs you when you're browsing an internet forum?
Mine?
Paragraphs, or lack of them. I bet I'm missing a log of good posts simply because the writer didn't use the enter key to create a line break between thoughts. Can't read that and don't even try.
x SF med
06-16-2006, 07:36
K-
Grammar, structure, usage, capitalization... Actually I'll go one step further, fluency, or lack thereof, in one's native tongue. But as Orwell said in Politics and the English Language - "...it is better to break these rules of language than to do anything barbaric to enforce them." Write like you speak, but use the language properly, for the situation. **end rant**
edit: Um, Kyo, "peaves" is actually "peeves", oh, shit, now I'm gonna get banned, correcting a moderator....
Radar Rider
06-16-2006, 07:37
Lack of punctuation, misspelling, and those that type in ALL CAPS.
Kyobanim
06-16-2006, 08:20
edit: Um, Kyo, "peaves" is actually "peeves", oh, shit, now I'm gonna get banned, correcting a moderator....
Miss-speeled werds is my midle nam
:D
Politics and the English Language
Underlined words that don't include a link ;)
x SF med
06-16-2006, 08:45
Book titles are underlined, should I use quotes instead?
Airbornelawyer
06-16-2006, 09:07
K-
Grammar, structure, usage, capitalization... Actually I'll go one step further, fluency, or lack thereof, in one's native tongue. But as Orwell said in Politics and the English Language - "...it is better to break these rules of language than to do anything barbaric to enforce them." Write like you speak, but use the language properly, for the situation. **end rant**
edit: Um, Kyo, "peaves" is actually "peeves", oh, shit, now I'm gonna get banned, correcting a moderator....
Technically, it should be "write as you speak." :D
x SF med
06-16-2006, 09:55
AL- true, I stand corrected, 20 given. No excuse for not proofing my own work.
Dial up while on TDY outstide the United States.....like right now.
Titles to threads that don't explain the threads content. You click them open just to find if it's something informative or interesting, and it's just crap.
I know everyone's got one. What bugs you when you're browsing an internet forum?
Mine?
Paragraphs, or lack of them. I bet I'm missing a log of good posts simply because the writer didn't use the enter key to create a line break between thoughts. Can't read that and don't even try.
This and run on sentences.
CoLawman
06-16-2006, 13:10
Never seen my pet peeve on this forum. That, being the distortion of script to appear like hieroglyphics.
x SF med
06-16-2006, 13:14
Ahhh, yes, the old unrecognized font into ASCII characters routine - very annoying
Sweetbriar
06-16-2006, 15:28
Posts that are only a link, with no summary given on the contents. Secondarily is a link that does not indicate that it's actually a download.
Lack of line break, and overly long posts. Succinctness is a virtue.
Internet shorthand age appropriate to a teenage board. b4, l8r