Aaarrrgghhh!

gilly there you are ?

As soon as I see their names come up, I skip to the next one

Charming (with or without !)

But oh to be so perfect.......sigh.....

I wish I had nothing else to worry about except punctuation and learning “the rules” .

I like paragraphs, but I am upset to read ‘ I can’t understand why people can’t learn the rules’, this was said about apostrophes, perhaps posters have bigger problems and more important things going on in their lives than taking time out ‘to learn’

Yes I like paragraphs. If I am emailing a letter to a friend each topic is a separate paragraph with a line space in between. much more pleasant to read and looks better.

I didn’t know there were rules on GN for punctuation

We all make mistakes, especially when predictive text takes over, that's no problem, but (as Framilode says) hugely long posts with no paragraphs, and no fullstops or any punctuation, just a tsunami of words - life's too short to try and make sense of it. Sorry.

Oh dear I sometimes skip the punctuation. Just laziness I suppose. ?.
Apostrophes in the wrong places annoy me slightly. Better in some cases to leave it out if you're not sure.

I make mistakes in spelling, punctuation, grammar, either I don’t post or some can ignore my posts and ridicule me and others , I will continue to post ?

I know there should have been a couple of commas in there. Slapped wrist.

Sparklefizz Not so much grammar but posts that are hugely long without any paragraphs I find impossible to plough through.

There are a couple of regulars on GN who don't use any punctuation at all. Why should I spend twice as long trying to make sense of their posts? As soon as I see their names come up, I skip to the next one.

I don't get my knickers in a twist if people get grammar wrong but their meaning is still crystal clear. What does annoy me is when the meaning is being obscured, confused or ambiguous because it is not expressed properly.

For some people it is, yes.

I think people misused apostrophes long before texting came on the scene. I can't understand why people can't learn the rules. Not that hard is it?

I think it's mainly because of people using phones to write on and not noticing that they've been 'autocorrected' incorrectly.

But MOT's drive me wild. As does 'it's' (contraction of 'it is') when it should be 'its' (possessive pronoun). I see it all the time on twitter and even teachers do it

This should be good for a page or two. Just don’t mention sofas

There is a man who goes around righting signs on shops that have erroneous apostrophes.