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Originally Posted by Dozer523
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I don't want to bring back the Grammar Nazi. Wait, yes I do!
Along with learning about PULHES, please (please, please) take a little more time (or a lot, as each case may require) to check your grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Your writing reflects you, and the care you put into something. It is somewhat (okay, hell, very) disrespectful to fail to put forth maximum effort in those areas.
SF is not just about kicking doors, pulling triggers, and looking cool. Even 18Bravos have to communicate. Sometimes that communication will be in written form. Using computers as the platform for this communication makes checking grammar, spelling, and punctuation much more easy to accomplish.
(Posts such as these make me doubt my efficacy in my many years of high school classroom instruction. I do, however, take comfort in knowing I was NOT an English teacher, most of whom now are not even required to teach English, instead teaching students to "feel good" about their writing, and not stifling their creativity by correcting their grammar, punctuation, or spelling.
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