English, mother-fucker! Do you speak it?
I've just read a couple of different posts from people, and I am deeply ashamed. What do you people have against question marks and capitalized i's? If you ask ANY question--be it casual or not--it NEEDS to end in a question mark. For example, even something as slangy as the phrase "You know what" needs to end in this manner.
This is unacceptable:
"You know what. I hate peas."
OR
"You know what, I hate peas."
OR
"You know what; I hate peas."
THIS IS WHAT IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE:
"You know what? I hate peas."
And the 'i' thing?
No.
One more time for the cheap seats in the back.
NO.
Please. Capitalize proper nouns and words that start sentences.
I understand this is livejournal and people become very conversational. This is perfectly fine. But you have to understand that you won't be taken seriously if you can't string together a coherent sentence.
Maybe this is me just being bitchy, but I'm getting kind of sick of this. I see e-mails all day long, proof-read classmates' papers constantly, and now am bombarded by friends' posts--many of which rape the English language. Here's the thing: I don't understand how people made it to college without these things becoming second nature. You have to read books for school, you read newspapers and magazines all the time, constantly do stuff online (which usually requires text), see signs for everything, everywhere. I understand that not everyone likes English, but it's YOUR language. It's one of the first things you learned after your basic motor skills developed. How have you not picked this up by now?
Maybe I'm just being a word Nazi, but it's just irritating. I mean, most people already abbreviate everything in e-mails and text messages ANYWAY. Is it too much to ask that a few mediums just be proof-read before they're sent out to the world?
This is unacceptable:
"You know what. I hate peas."
OR
"You know what, I hate peas."
OR
"You know what; I hate peas."
THIS IS WHAT IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE:
"You know what? I hate peas."
And the 'i' thing?
No.
One more time for the cheap seats in the back.
NO.
Please. Capitalize proper nouns and words that start sentences.
I understand this is livejournal and people become very conversational. This is perfectly fine. But you have to understand that you won't be taken seriously if you can't string together a coherent sentence.
Maybe this is me just being bitchy, but I'm getting kind of sick of this. I see e-mails all day long, proof-read classmates' papers constantly, and now am bombarded by friends' posts--many of which rape the English language. Here's the thing: I don't understand how people made it to college without these things becoming second nature. You have to read books for school, you read newspapers and magazines all the time, constantly do stuff online (which usually requires text), see signs for everything, everywhere. I understand that not everyone likes English, but it's YOUR language. It's one of the first things you learned after your basic motor skills developed. How have you not picked this up by now?
Maybe I'm just being a word Nazi, but it's just irritating. I mean, most people already abbreviate everything in e-mails and text messages ANYWAY. Is it too much to ask that a few mediums just be proof-read before they're sent out to the world?