How to use an apostrophe FYI

So, if I understand this correctly, paragraph structure, spelling and punctuation are required?

I will endeavor to comply.........

Ozark Wizard wrote:

 So, if I understand this correctly, paragraph structure, spelling and punctuation are required?

 I will endeavor to comply.........

It's just the write thing to do.  




(Oh yeah, a proper ellipsis has three dots.)  

I saw a ellipse once, butt the teacher maid us glance threw a sheet of paper with a whole punched in it...

Hermit wrote:

It's just the write thing to do.  

(Oh yeah, a proper ellipsis has three dots.)  

perhaps just a friendly reminder to those who dont bother to use periods commas or capital letters is it really annoying to try to read stuff like that i guess it might be its like trying to say the whole alphabet with one big breath you know you breath in real deep and just belt it out and hope you dont run out of air anyway maybe something to think about now i have to go bye

Puff Daddy wrote:

perhaps just a friendly reminder to those who dont bother to use periods commas or capital letters is it really annoying to try to read stuff like that i guess it might be its like trying to say the whole alphabet with one big breath you know you breath in real deep and just belt it out and hope you dont run out of air anyway maybe something to think about now i have to go bye

Oh my.........

I think I may have seen that somewhere here on the forum. Another result of the "No Child Left Behind" program, no doubt. To have to sit as a spectator watching the unabashed murder of a language is rather disturbing. Perhaps the introduction of acronyms was the first blow, FWIW....

I can count the number of people that still hand write letters, in cursive, on one hand. (Myself included) It is fast becoming a lost art. I have had younger folks ask me what I was looking at when reading a posted letter, and when I show them, they hand it back and ask what it says.

Very sad indeed.


MUAH!

puros_bran wrote:

...In light of new and frequent abuse of the English Language, I am asking that the members re-read the above sticky...

I was wondering how long it would take someone.  

Yoo guise er werss sticklerz for punk chewayshun then my inglish teechir wuz bakk in thu day. (period)

point is i am pretty nori dis at typing ou t wha titype but som folk macc me look li kei know what im doing

If'n I sees the phrase "begs the question" used instead of "raises the question," or "price point" used for "price" one more time, I'm just gonna BUST!

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(above applies to the world at large, not necessarily BoB)

Richard Burley wrote:

If'n I sees the phrase "begs the question" used instead of "raises the question," or "price point" used for "price" one more time, I'm just gonna BUST!

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(above applies to the world at large, not necessarily BoB)

Yes, but that begs the question...

That chap looks awfully grumpy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

Weird Al has it covered.

Fazby wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

Weird Al has it covered.

OMG!!!

LMFAO!!


Nothing like the old back-handed slap.

I just joined this forum tonight, and I must say, seeing this thread made me very happy. Poor grammar really get on my nerves! We're all prone to the occasional mistake or typo, but there are some folks out there that just really have a hard time understanding.

I think anyone that has a problem with improper or poor grammar has got bigger problems then they think.
Never bothered me and I use it all the time. I figure if I can understand what an individual is saying
then what's the problem? There's a hell of lot more things out there that people should be worried about, that they don't, then how someone talks, spells, or fricken writes or type's.
Grammar Police, when do you have time to really read anything if your more focused on how a sentence is constructed? I say, Get A Life! and get on down the road.

Stick wrote:

I've just stumbled across this thread.  My thoughts are they can make the difference between knowing your sh*t and knowing you're sh*t.

Indeed.