I'm semi-new to LBT but not new to forums in general.

What is really irritating is trying to read through one long run-on sentence, poor capitalization, poor spelling, and no paragraphs! :thumbs_up:

The no paragraphs are the worst as they are difficult to read.

We have spell check, use it for goodness sake.

Punctuation is good.

I've come across quite a few posts that are long with poor spelling, punctuation and no paragraphs. They've been very hard to read. I hope I'm not alone in my thinking here. I'd just like to know when a thought ends and another one begins!

Thank you for letting me rant, I'm done now.

Edited April 8, 200818 yr by jrob281
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The biggest reason I will lose weight is all the time I am spending reading LBT!! Who has time to eat?

Janet, LOVE your warm-funny-tell-it-like-it-is posts. If anyone gives you heat about your grammar, spelling, etc., tell them you were out smoking in the girls' bathroom the day that was taught.

I AM an English teacher (retired--thank You, God, for pensions) and though I do not mind errors and can read around them, any error "screams" out at me. It's like the red pen is a permanent fixture in my head.

Still, remember why we are here. Everyone, let's hold hands and sing Kum-Ba-Ya!

(to someone many posts back--you weighed the girls? funny!)

I was probably out smoking :smile2: and I never saw the reasoning for Diagramming a sentence - Why?? :eek: - I cheated my way thru english ask the people who sat infront of me - Thanks JB :rolleyes2:

Wow...catching up from a busy weekend.

Yeah, that was me - I weighed the girls. :rolleyes2: I couldn't resist. Tacky people have asked how much they weigh - they are large - and now I can answer with a complete straight face.

My thoughts on the subject of grammar police:

THIS IS RANTS AND RAVES. Hello???? Do the same as ya'll are suggesting - if you don't like it, don't read it.

I DO skip the posts I can't read - and that's what's bad. This is rants and raves; you can take it or leave here. But, when someone really needs help and can't communicate that, then they're missing out on the help they need. The issue is that it's hard to read, so your post with all the incorrections are going to be skipped - and doesn't that negate the point of typing it in the first place?

Also, if you are a bad speller/grammatical user then this R&R may be just what you need. Take notes, read this thread without getting defensive, and instead try to learn from it.

No one, that I've read, has reprimanded someone for spelling/grammar issues in the non-R&R threads.

II never saw the reasoning for Diagramming a sentence - Why??

Thank you so much for stating this. My dh, dd and I were just talking about this the other day. DH and I never understood why, every year from about 5th grade on we spent countless hours in school diagramming freaking sentences. :rolleyes2: Surely, that time could have been better spent? Not once, in any of my jobs that I have had in the 20 years since I have graduated has my employer ever asked me to diagram a sentence! :smile2:

Wow...catching up from a busy weekend.

Yeah, that was me - I weighed the girls. :rolleyes2: I couldn't resist. Tacky people have asked how much they weigh - they are large - and now I can answer with a complete straight face.

My thoughts on the subject of grammar police:

THIS IS RANTS AND RAVES. Hello???? Do the same as ya'll are suggesting - if you don't like it, don't read it.

I DO skip the posts I can't read - and that's what's bad. This is rants and raves; you can take it or leave here. But, when someone really needs help and can't communicate that, then they're missing out on the help they need. The issue is that it's hard to read, so your post with all the incorrections are going to be skipped - and doesn't that negate the point of typing it in the first place?

Also, if you are a bad speller/grammatical user then this R&R may be just what you need. Take notes, read this thread without getting defensive, and instead try to learn from it.

No one, that I've read, has reprimanded someone for spelling/grammar issues in the non-R&R threads.

Yep. Same here. If something looks like it's going to give me a headache to try to decipher, I skip it entirely. And yes, I've actually gotten headaches from trying to read people's posts before. The posts that I think most of us are referring to are not the ones where there's a few misspelled words or a single missing period or misplaced comma or apostrophe. Rather, they're the ones that are 4-5 inches long or longer without a single punctuation point or capitalized word, the ones where words are mangled so badly you can't even begin to know what it said. Or, my personal pet peeve, the friggin' haiku posts made several months ago that I couldn't decipher. (Those were actually the straw that broke the camel's back, in my case. I started skipping posts that day. I was literally staring at one of those posts and thinking, "WTF?!")

I must have missed the haiku posts. Maybe before my time. Thank goodness!

I rememeber the haiku posts lmao.

I must have missed the haiku posts. Maybe before my time. Thank goodness!

Probably. Be very, very glad. The poster went off on me when I asked her to elaborate her posts. We're talking pissed, saying something along the lines of "you think you're so much better than me," blah, blah, blah. And I was just sitting here thinking, "Chill! I'm not after you for the way you post or the incorrect grammar you're using, but because I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE HELL YOU'RE TRYING TO SAY! You're trying to debate and shit, but your statements do not make any actual sense in any time/space dimension whatsoever!" I seriously just started skipping her posts after that. After all, in RnR, if people can't understand what you're trying to say, you aren't actually adding anything to the debate/conversation.

I was the weirdo in English class asking the teacher if we could please

diagram sentences!:huh2:

Now math, that's a different story!

What do you people

Have against Haiku answers

I find them peaceful

:huh2:

they can be very peaceful

but sense these ones did not make

nor were they really haikus

just sort of posting all over the place in a format

like this

random thoughts everywhere

kind of annoying really

but what can you do

the trash smells bad

i dont like snakes

nor punctuation

they can be very peaceful

but sense these ones did not make

nor were they really haikus

just sort of posting all over the place in a format

like this

random thoughts everywhere

kind of annoying really

but what can you do

the trash smells bad

i dont like snakes

nor punctuation

OMG! I seriously just snorted Water through my nose! :thumbup: I honestly couldn't figure out if that person was just really odd or high on something really, really good. :confused2:

Did that pretty much hit the nail on the head though? lol

What do you people

Have against Haiku answers

I find them peaceful

:thumbup:

Ha!

you misunderstand

It is not that they are wrong

they can be too short

not the greatest...but I haven't written one since high school.

Did that pretty much hit the nail on the head though? lol

Hers were a tad vaguer and a bit more pothead-like, I think, but you were close! But you forgot the astrological and hippie flower-child references!

I never saw the reasoning for Diagramming a sentence

every year from about 5th grade on we spent countless hours in school diagramming freaking sentences.

I was the weirdo in English class asking the teacher if we could please

diagram sentences!

WHAT...the...HELL does "diagramming a sentence" mean? Either I was doing it and never knew what it was called, or they outlawed this practice by the time I got to school. LOL