How important is spelling and punctuation to you?

[SIMassey]

That was the Jetson's dog Astro.

I remember it sounding like "rastro".

 

[Xfaxman]

I mostly breeze past and ignore minor spelling mistakes and punctuation errors if
it's still
easily readable. If the post is fairly long and it is not broken up into reasonably
sized
paragraphs, I must admit that I'll often skip past those posts. If it is something
that I'm
very interested in, I may force myself to read through, though it's painful.

What really drives me nuts is what I call seismograph posts. You know the ones,
where the
lines of sentences are all messed up. First there is a full length line of text, then
that is
followed by just a word or two, then the next line is a full line of text again, and
so on. It
is especially annoying if it is a fairly long post. I don't know what it is about this
style, but
it is definitely one that is bothersome enough to me that I nearly always have to
skip those
posts, or just sort of skim over them at best.

You mean like yours, when you hit the Enter key when you don't need to use it for each line?

 

[IslandTractor]

I mostly breeze past and ignore minor spelling mistakes and punctuation errors if it's still easily readable. If the post is fairly long and it is not broken up into reasonably sized paragraphs, I must admit that I'll often skip past those posts. If it is something that I'm very interested in, I may force myself to read through, though it's painful. What really drives me nuts is what I call seismograph posts. You know the ones, where the lines of sentences are all messed up. First there is a full length line of text, then that is followed by just a word or two, then the next line is a full line of text again, and so on. It is especially annoying if it is a fairly long post. I don't know what it is about this style, but it is definitely one that is bothersome enough to me that I nearly always have to skip those posts, or just sort of skim over them at best.

Unintended line returns occur frequently if you write in a separate application and then cut and paste.

What has occurred to many of my posts recently is that all line returns disappear when I quote (as in this post) or if I reopen one of my own posts to edit it.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Is this guy is using a paragraph?

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Bruce

Why YES, YES he is. :laughing: Good one. typing responses on a phone makes for short paragraphs also.

 

[Looking4new]

Why YES, YES he is. :laughing: Good one. typing responses on a phone makes for short paragraphs also.

And missing capital letters after the period.:laughing:

 

[Looking4new]

Why YES, YES he is. :laughing: Good one. typing responses on a phone makes for short paragraphs also.

And missing capital letters after the period.:laughing:

 

[GolfAddict]

You mean like yours, when you hit the Enter key when you don't need to use it for each line?

Good grief, didn't think I needed to include this -->

 

[buckeyefarmer]

And missing capital letters after the period.:laughing:

you can say that again. :laughing: Also on the phone, I don't add apostrophes.

 

[TomSeller]

Some of us are using the dreaded iOS and have to live with the associated spellcheck. Drives me creasy.

 

[Xfaxman]

You mean like yours, when you hit the Enter key when you don't need to use it for each line?

Good grief, didn't think I needed to include this -->

I kinda thought that you did it on purpose. :thumbsup: