Punishment for offenders?

Help!!! As a poorly educated dyslexic, I better* stop posting on GN. Far be it from me to annoy the literate or worse still be reported to the Grammar Police. I note that the fine is in $s so I hope they only operate abroad.

*Or is it I'd better or had better?

magenta I was told on here recently that I was enraging someone because of my lack of punctuation. Whoops full stop.

I was amused to note in a recent thread that one of GN’s most zealous pedants not only misquoted Shakespeare but attributed it to the wrong play! However, I don’t police posts so I refrained from commenting or correcting

The only thing I don’t like is posts that are all in caps, as my visual impairments make them difficult to read. I don’t know why.

Very rude of that person BlueBelle pedants complain about spelling and grammar in general but not on a personal level I would hope. Unless of course it's my family then I have to correct them. They have turned the tables on me a few times as well.

I don’t fuss over the lack of punctuation so much but I do find long posts with no paragraphs rather difficult to absorb.
Pobodies nerfect and all that!

At least Germanshepherdsmum had the good manners to educate me by PM. 😂

I'm a pedant in that I believe that anything going to print (newspapers, books, reports etc), and thus be permanent, should be as correct as possible regarding spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Messages and posts on Gransnet are conversation and need not be subject to the same rules as long as they're readable and understandable. Also, we can all make typos (me especially) or other mistakes that get posted before we realise.

Could have phrased some of that better!

I'm guilty of alot

I have found that most of the time grammer, speling and punchewation mistakes are politely ignored on GN.

After all it is the experiences, thoughts and opinions that are interesting.

Sausage fingers, predictive text, senior moments and haste are just some of the hazards that can get in the way of textual perfection.

Is anyone a fan of Ronald Ridout? English, spelling, anything in that line. I had some of his books but gave them away when we downsized.

petra

At least Germanshepherdsmum had the good manners to educate me by PM. 😂

Are you implying others haven’t?

I’m getting worried- did I need to preface the thread title with “light-hearted” ? (As seems to be the convention these days even if it is patently obvious that something is not to be taken seriously )

I am just reading ‘Still Life’ by Sarah Winman. It has no speech marks in the text. I found that difficult to read at first. I have now been told that Sally Rooney had adopted the same way of writing. I can’t decide what I feel.

Riversidegirl

Is anyone a fan of Ronald Ridout? English, spelling, anything in that line. I had some of his books but gave them away when we downsized.

I can't say I am a fan but I do remember having to study "English Today" at school.

JamesandJon33

I am just reading ‘Still Life’ by Sarah Winman. It has no speech marks in the text. I found that difficult to read at first. I have now been told that Sally Rooney had adopted the same way of writing. I can’t decide what I feel.

I think we're descending into the abyss

Punctuation is there to provide clarity to the written word. It's a substitute for all the clues , visual and auditory, which help us to understand the spoken word. As it punctuation fewer 'tools' with which to do this it needs to be understood by both the writer and the reader in order for communication to be effortless.

I'm sorry, but I wouldn't bother to attempt to read a book in which punctuation is omitted. I like to concentrate on the 'story', not on making mental efforts to determine exactly what the text is saying.

AAAARGH!

As it punctuation fewer 'tools' w.. Try proof reading, Maizie

Should read As punctuation has fewer tools..