Reporting things

If someone were proofreading your post, the ellipses would need a space before and after.

I have no idea how people type posts into phones. I use them for messaging; they often take over.

volver

I use ellipsis too...

And never feel the need...to point out how others decide to punctuate their posts...and talk about them as if they weren't there...and make assumptions about them...

Surely that's just good manners...?

I use ellipsis too...

So do I... frequently. But only three at a time... I'm not greedy .

Children are very clever and understand from an early age how to distinguish between all the adults in their lives.
Their other grandma and I share a Christian name but it doesn't faze our DGC.
I was delighted to be described as fun grannie.

I think that's rather nice StarDreamer.

I met one of my former school teachers in the street by chance one day, I addressed him as Sir. It was about forty years after I had left school. He was by then in his nineties.

Very good!

Everyone was auntie when I was a child.
Some of my aunties asked me not to call them auntie once I got to about age 27, but old habits die hard.

Oops!

> Or DSiM and DSiLF

That should be

Or DSiLM and DSiLF

where M and F stand for Male and Female, as one type of SiL is male and one type of SiL is female.

MissAdventure

The posts I find most difficult to decipher are the DD, DDIL, DGD, DDOG, DGDOG, SIL, the other SIL, and DUncle Tom Cobbly and all.

I puzzled over DDOG but I suppose I get what is meant.

Maybe SiLM and SiLF would disambiguate effectively.

Or DSiM and DSiLF

What about DMiL too.

Or even AJ or DAJ

Would you like
a cup of tea,
a piece of cake
and a talk with me?
And when we've talked
it should be clear
how you will now
address me, dear.
You won't call me Mum
you've let it be known
for you've got a Mum
of your own.
By my first name
As friends and husband do
I gladly give
that choice to you.
Though as you're married
to my son
I respect your view
it isn't done.
So to me my dear
the solution is plain
you may address me
as Auntie Jane

That's a good idea StarDreamer and I know others use that approach too. If it's reported you'll know GNHQ will take a look.

I'm glad about that Chewbacca as I had no idea why those posts of yours were deleted in the first place or why anyone would have reported them .

I love colon or semi colon every now and then.

Hi Beautful, you might want to have a look at the " Why report so much " thread from a couple of weeks back. It prompted me to join GN and make my first post. I've just updated my position on it this afternoon...

I report my own posts to GNHQ if I want to draw something to their attention.

I did that earlier today regarding a post on the following page.

www.gransnet.com/forums/pensions/1309446-Diary-of-a-benefit-claimant?pg=33

The post timestamped Sat 30-Jul-22 10:07:54

MissAdventure

I agree with you there

Lets just agree that you're a bit dotty, beautiful

Thanks for answering my question on reported & reporting

What a palava my 3 dots or what ever you call them ... didn't realise it would cause such a discussion ... made me smile ? ... to me I do it because have a pause ... if not even with commas goes from one thing to another ... thanks for all your comments I do appreciate them ... I do agree about all the initials people use ... a lot I don't know have to read the thread a couple of times before I get it , some cases I don't get it ... also regarding my dots I have not taken any offence from anyone who has commented ... glad others do it too

The posts I find most difficult to decipher are the DD, DDIL, DGD, DDOG, DGDOG, SIL, the other SIL, and DUncle Tom Cobbly and all.

toscalily

This has been an amusing read, especially on a very wet, grey morning. I think it must be a bit disconcerting for newbies to come across deletions on a thread as they may not realise that it has been done because of spamming or advertising. We had a similar thread about reporting a week or two ago, some seem to take great delight in doing so Yammy's sanctimonious old biddies definitely holds true. If you add in auto-correct, not paying attention, bad eyesight and arthritic fingers to the mix of dyslexia, different educational levels etc., just be thankful you can still read what's written. !!!! - . . .

Thank you from all of us out there who cannot help it.

eazybee

There is nothing clever in referring to people who question poor grammar and spelling as 'sanctimonious old biddies'; no-one was ridiculed, but the original post was hard to understand due to a misuse of ellipsis.

There is nothing clever either in boasting about being too lazy to check a written statement for errors; spell and grammar checkers are available to anyone working online.

We aren't working, though.

We're supposed to be enjoying ourselves!

There was a poster on here a while back who regularly posted without previewing and so her posts were packed with errors which she would correct, rather laboriously, in the following post.
I also use......
This is when I want the reader if there is one to imagine the rest of the sentence. It could be et cetera. It could be what happened next?

I have asked for posts to be removed when they were obviously spam or offensive or if I posted too soon or by mistake.

I have met ellipses used like that in the OP many times in casual online chat for nearly three decades. Until today I have not met (online or otherwise) anyone who minded or anyone who was flummoxed by such usage.

It's a first for Gransnet. There is that ?

There is nothing clever in referring to people who question poor grammar and spelling as 'sanctimonious old biddies'; no-one was ridiculed, but the original post was hard to understand due to a misuse of ellipsis.

There is nothing clever either in boasting about being too lazy to check a written statement for errors; spell and grammar checkers are available to anyone working online.

MissAdventure

........

No point banging on about grammar and punctuation rules, and ignoring the online one, which is that it is bad form to criticise someone else's use of grammar and punctuation.

THIS is the most pertinent comment about comments on people's posting style. Well said, mads.

This has been an amusing read, especially on a very wet, grey morning. I think it must be a bit disconcerting for newbies to come across deletions on a thread as they may not realise that it has been done because of spamming or advertising. We had a similar thread about reporting a week or two ago, some seem to take great delight in doing so Yammy's sanctimonious old biddies definitely holds true. If you add in auto-correct, not paying attention, bad eyesight and arthritic fingers to the mix of dyslexia, different educational levels etc., just be thankful you can still read what's written. !!!! - . . .

Chewbacca

^It's a casual discussion forum, not and essay-writing competition.^ It is, and as long as we can understand what's being put across, it really doesn't matter if a post is spelt, or punctuated, to A Level standard does it?

So long as we don't get confused among all the short snippets of unfinished thoughts.