Hello
I have to stress the word "unneccesery" in my topic titel. This is first and foremost directed at those users with english as their first language(especially those who are fully capable of writing proper english wich gives them A's on their english-papers, but still write like they have english as their 3rd language). People with english as their 3rd or 2nd language should just write as good as they are capable of.
First of all shouldn't it be expected that the first letter of every sentence should be spelled with a capital letter? This may seam of no importance but it makes every post you make look at lot more coherent and understandable. Not to mention one would think that if a person doesn't use capital letters the user will seam imature and childiss(i.e there would most likely be no reason to read his or her posts). There is nothing difficult about using capital letters, so there is no excuse not using them at all. I am tired of hearing about how little it matters etc, it matters a lot.
Then there are the question - and exlamation marks. One should never use more than one of each. By using more than one you are not gaining more credibility. Actually you get the contrary effect. A post like; Oh my God are you like serious!!!!??!??!!!!!!!!!!!!. makes you and not the person you are directing your posts at look stupid. If absolutely neccesery you can always use this emoticon
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Add to this that writing in normal Oxford english makes much more sense than writing in a childiss "chat-style" with mistakes everywhere. This is especially directed at those with english as their first language. Mistakes will happen, and I am sure that there are mistakes in this post. But at least I try to make as few as possible. This is all that is expected, trying to not make mistakes. If one doesn't know how to spell a word, and one spells it wrong it isn't a big problem(although one could always use a dictionary if one is interested in learning something new, but I am aware of the fact that this might take too much time), at least one makes a good effort.
Writing in a special or unique style out of friendly humour should by all means be written, and it makes this place much funnier. But if one is discussing politics or one is writing about the unique harmonies of Chopin, bad spelling and uneccesery exlamation marks will just ruin everything you try to write in your posts.
I am by no means trying to put foreward an offer to the administartor that he should remove posts by users who write bad english, but that everybody at this forum should write as good as they are capable of.
Look at the user "ahinton". He writes with almost no mistakes, and yet his posts are funny as well as interesting. And sometimes even he writes in certain slang to make a point. But at least he writes that way to make a point, instead of making himself look stupid. Take him as a good role-model for writing posts about serious issues(again I have to stress that in a topic created with humour as its most important feature, funny language in "dasdc" style or similar is fully appropriate).
Thank you.
Topic: Unneccesery bad grammar and spelling at pianostreet