- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: skraeling
SPEC OPS, perhaps if you want people to talk about your topic rather than your grammar, you should in fact write correctly. And I'm not talking about the CAPS LOCK KEY, which although annoying doesn't make posts difficult to read. Your posts are one enormous sentence, and it is difficult to decipher the meaning behind them. You need commas and periods to make your posts easier to read.
Now you can go ahead and say that you're too lazy to use good grammar, but remember that if you continue to write with bad grammar, people will continue to focus on that rather than on your topic.
On a similar note, you can go to a job interview and say you're too lazy to look good, and wear flip flops, sweat pants, a sweaty t-shirt, and scrambled eggs in your five o'clock shadow, but you won't get the job. Not even a chance. And you can tell the interviewer that if he doesn't like your style it means he lives in the second matrix and that he should leave, but that won't change a thing. He still won't give you the job until you get your act together.
And we won't stop talking about your grammar until you fix it. You want us to read your post so therefore you have to make posts that are easy for us to understand.
And to whoever said that is the way people write in instant messengers, note that this forum is not AIM. With IMs it is necessary to get ideas out very quickly therefore grammar takes a hike. But here you have all the time in the world, or even just two seconds to put some periods and commas in your post.
That is the smartest thing I have read on my thread, and has saved my IQ from dropping another twenty points.