04-25-2004, 09:45 AM
Doesn't not capitalizating sentences properly fall under the lazy category? And if someone knows the "alrite" version of "alright", I'm sure they know the correct one as well. I do find the number of exclamation marks interesting though. Looks like Adams was on to something. :)
You probably know this already, but:
Therefore it's not difficult to make a legible post, but I think unless one is making a good point (ie. other than "I'm too lazy to care about my posts") with one's bad style of writing one should keep things proper. Besides, it's in the forum's etiquette link.
I don't even know why I'm writing this, after all you agree that the forum posts should be written in real English (with non-native exceptions) and I agree that his posts were completely legible with almost minimum effort involved. I still say he was lazy, though. :)
You probably know this already, but:
Quote:Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Therefore it's not difficult to make a legible post, but I think unless one is making a good point (ie. other than "I'm too lazy to care about my posts") with one's bad style of writing one should keep things proper. Besides, it's in the forum's etiquette link.
I don't even know why I'm writing this, after all you agree that the forum posts should be written in real English (with non-native exceptions) and I agree that his posts were completely legible with almost minimum effort involved. I still say he was lazy, though. :)
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