How important is spelling and punctuation to you?

   / How important is spelling and punctuation to you? #12  
I should be really good at English. Since I had to go to summer school every year for it.

I have tried to use this forum to improve on my writing. I have noticed on some forums that it may be days or weeks between posts. Some of those posts tend to sound like a bad CL post. This forum is like a big friends episode where we never leave each other.

Some things I have trouble with myself are: run on extra long sentences. Wrong punctuation and missing words. I try to edit it and fix it when I see something wrong. Oh and that pesky ie ei rule.

One thing to remember though, is how many different walks of life are on here. While the educated are laughing at our grammar,we are laughing at your welds.

By the way does diesel gel or jell?
 
   / How important is spelling and punctuation to you? #13  
For me, spelling & punctuation create a first impression - even though I know that first impressions are often very wrong.

When I got the "promotion" at a lumber yard from making up orders with a forklift in the back lot to driving the delivery trucks I got schooled buy an older guy who couldn't read or write. JR's knowledge of trucks, driving trucks in mud, snow and ice, loading, load handling, unloading, mass and inertia was deep. What really impressed me that there was a lot I didn't know and that he was willing to share what he had learned, the hard way. Up until this time, I used to think he was some kind of simpleton, but realized later just how wrong that assumption was.

Unfortunately, it's human nature to judge a book by it's cover - and I still do, even though I know I'm fooling myself. Bad spelling and bad grammar no longer make me think someone is a simpleton, but it does make me think they are making a hurried and not very carefully thought out response. Or driving that car, in the oncoming traffic lane, texting and eating a cheeseburger and listening to a ballgame. So my first reaction is sometimes to discount what they are saying as just spewing without much thought about the matter - even though I know odds are that assumption might be wrong.
 
   / How important is spelling and punctuation to you? #14  
waat? Can u reppeet that? I kant reed soo gud eether.

I cannot hear at all, meaning communication with me is dependent upon CLEAR writing in many instances, or CAREFUL and WELL THOUGHT OUT verbal communication. People who are thoughtful enough to educate themselves to write and speak clearly endear themselves to me and others who have difficulty in understanding, be it by an inability to hear a spoken word or inability to understand careless writing and grammar.
 
   / How important is spelling and punctuation to you? #15  
I cannot hear at all, meaning communication with me is dependent upon CLEAR writing in many instances, or CAREFUL and WELL THOUGHT OUT verbal communication. People who are thoughtful enough to educate themselves to write and speak clearly endear themselves to me and others who have difficulty in understanding, be it by an inability to hear a spoken word or inability to understand careless writing and grammar.

If you cannot HEAR, why are you YELLING all the time?:D
 
   / How important is spelling and punctuation to you? #17  
Paragraph breaks...all I ask :D

Nothing more difficult than trying to read a large block of run on sentences nonstop especially with my old eyes
 
   / How important is spelling and punctuation to you? #18  
When I read a book I look for typos and spelling mistakes. On a forum I think we can expect mistakes even with spell check. Spell check will NOT pick up on the wrong use of words like 'to, too, two', sure they are spelled correctly but their usage is different. 'There' is another is another one.
but sentences with absolutely no punctuation capitalization and so on I really can't be bothered reading besides being really hard to read Just like that one.
 
   / How important is spelling and punctuation to you? #19  
I cannot hear at all, meaning communication with me is dependent upon CLEAR writing in many instances, or CAREFUL and WELL THOUGHT OUT verbal communication. People who are thoughtful enough to educate themselves to write and speak clearly endear themselves to me and others who have difficulty in understanding, be it by an inability to hear a spoken word or inability to understand careless writing and grammar.

Gheez yu d'ont have two yel, I can heer okaye!
 
   / How important is spelling and punctuation to you?
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#20  
I am not what some people would call a 'grammar ****', but having said that.....The very best we can do is lead by example and hope that the poor spellers 'get it'.
Punctuation, in my mind is just plain laziness.
And maybe I should have been more specific with punctuation. I was primarily meaning periods and paragraphs.

I agree on the line spacing and punctuation, plus using capital letters to lead off sentences is good. I can forgive minor spelling problems. But when I see someone rattle on in all lower case with no sentence structure, I picture a lazy mumbling idiot. Even though they could be an intelligent, perfectly understandable person, and it may have been right in their head when they started typing, any logic is lost. I don't work to hard to convert it back to understandable conversation, and will move on.

Sometimes it seems like the people coming here for help with a mechanical/operation problem are the worst, and that is a heck of a way to make a first post asking for help. When I ask for help, I try to make it as clear as I can.

Ironically, my spelling has gotten worse with the darn autocorrect that takes over in most browsers now. Usually it replaces words I mean to type with something else (especially complex words). If I don't catch it, it's garbage. I have to spend more time reviewing and correcting my posts than before.
Auto correct is a hoot. On another board someone had just wrote that the dimensions were 2 feet London by 3 feet wide and he missed that auto mess up had changed his misspelling of long to London.

I feel that I try to convey my thoughts across with the same level of presence that I do in life by choosing wording that shows I am <snip>in forum-land.
Did you write something?

When I read a book I look for typos and spelling mistakes. On a forum I think we can expect mistakes even with spell check. Spell check will NOT pick up on the wrong use of words like 'to, too, two', sure they are spelled correctly but their usage is different. 'There' is another is another one.
but sentences with absolutely no punctuation capitalization and so on I really can't be bothered reading besides being really hard to read Just like that one.
And I wasn't writing about simple mistakes, rather a word like "expecially" instead of especially. Although I really wish more people could tell the difference between "loose" and "lose".
 

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