Calling All Grammar Nazi's

[Dngrsone]

Besides, it's either impossible or not worth the huge amount of effort to get any modern word processor or internet forum software to allow two consecutive spaces.

I have to disagree on one point-- Open Office/ Libre Office accepts double-spaces fine. There is a checkbox setting under the Spellchecker settings, if I recall correctly.

 

[EarlyMon]

Ditto on Word as I recall.

 

[SulkyAndroid17]

This has probably been pointed out somewhere in the 30 odd pages but the title of this thread is a grammar foul... Nazi has a posessive apostrophe s on the end.... Should be "Calling all gramma Nazis"

Burnnn on you OP! Hah

I always double after a period too!!! That's the way it sposed to be...but my kids tellme I'm wrong and their teachers don't like it that way....I blame mediocracy and laziness....no really I do!!!
I also always indent 5 spaces for a new paragraph...which apparently is also becoming faux pas...

Excessive and poor use of ellipsis marks are irritating. I understand. This is informal and you want to show a pause. However, ellipses were not intended to replace the period. I always imagine the person hyperventilating at their computer while they struggle to finish a complete thought.

 

[Dngrsone]

Excessive and poor use of ellipsis marks are irritating. I understand. This is informal and you want to show a pause. However, ellipses were not intended to replace the period. I always imagine the person hyperventilating at their computer while they struggle to finish a complete thought.

And yet you have no issue with the extra periods? Ellipses are three periods. Period.

... and I, for one, am overly fond of using them.

 

[EarlyMon]

Wait... What?

Grammar Pup agrees.

 

[huh]

laziness, like using "sposed" rather than "supposed" ?

by the way, it's "mediocrity"

Die now?? Or later???
Geez you!!

And yes ... Yes I do

 

[SulkyAndroid17]

And yet you have no issue with the extra periods? Ellipses are three periods. Period.

... and I, for one, am overly fond of using them.

I don't have an issue with light use of ellipses in informal writing. Such as in your example.

Just when someone types like this...Did I finish my statement...? Or am I just showing a pause...? You'll never know... Maybe I have to omit a large amount of info...Perhaps it's because I want you at the edge of your seat as you read every sentence... I don't know... Perhaps people feel the need to reflect the pause in their thinking as they type...

One period is enough to show that you finished your sentence. You don't need three of them.

 

[EarlyMon]

I don't have an issue with light use of ellipses in informal writing. Such as in your example.

Just when someone types like this...Did I finish my statement...? Or am I just showing a pause...? You'll never know... Maybe I have to omit a large amount of info...Perhaps it's because I want you at the edge of your seat as you read every sentence... I don't know... Perhaps people feel the need to reflect the pause in their thinking as they type...

I wanted to know what happened next.

 

[Dngrsone]

I wanted to know what happened next.

Everyone dies.

 

[huh]

Everyone dies.

All... But one

 

[EarlyMon]

Everyone dies.

Sounds good.

Was it sci-fi?

Edit -

All... But one

Ah, definitely sci-fi then.

 

[jtc303]

I don't have an issue with light use of ellipses in informal writing. Such as in your example.

Just when someone types like this...Did I finish my statement...? Or am I just showing a pause...? You'll never know... Maybe I have to omit a large amount of info...Perhaps it's because I want you at the edge of your seat as you read every sentence... I don't know... Perhaps people feel the need to reflect the pause in their thinking as they type...

One period is enough to show that you finished your sentence. I don't need three of them.

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[EarlyMon]

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[SiempreTuna]

My research dug up this explanation:

The habit of using two spaces comes from a time when most typewriters used monospaced fonts, which were easier to read with two spaces at the end of a sentence. Nowadays, most fonts on computers are proportional and the extra space doesn​

 

[jtc303]

I just had to do it.


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[EarlyMon]

Every time you use the wrong punctuation, a socialist gramma cries, just a little.

 

[Unforgiven]

Well SueDNim, if indeed that is your real name,

How did I miss this, classic.:rofl:

 

[SueDNim]

I have to disagree on one point-- Open Office/ Libre Office accepts double-spaces fine. There is a checkbox setting under the Spellchecker settings, if I recall correctly.

Ditto on Word as I recall.

I humbly sit corrected.

Excessive and poor use of ellipsis marks are irritating.

And yet you have no issue with the extra periods?

What about excessive question marks and/or exclamation points?!?!!!

 

[EarlyMon]

If you add a one it conveys maximum excitement!!1!!!

Don't you agree?!?1!!?

 

[big_z]

I use the ellipsis quite a bit in forum posts and casual emails. I hear myself speak the words that I type, so if my brain trails off, you'll get one...

I don't use them in formal writing.

 

[zuben el genub]

English has a new preposition, because internet

 

[SiempreTuna]

 

[zuben el genub]

Here's another change:
The Period, Our Simplest Punctuation Mark, Has Become a Sign of Anger | New Republic

Wonder what H. L. Mencken would write today?

 

[shelliewnj]

People must think I'm mad all the time. I always use punctuation in my text messaging, instant messages, etc.

 

[Dngrsone]

People must think I'm mad all the time. I always use punctuation in my text messaging, instant messages, etc.

Same here. Though I do use ellipses a lot, and have to rein myself in on occasion.