An appeal for moderation

[Nystul]

Does it really matter if there are forgotten capital letters or punctuation marks?
Apparently,it does matter for you;it doesn't matter for me (because it doesn't show any illiteracy from the poster,maybe laziness/negligence);I do it sometimes in other forums,and even here in the LL.So what? [right][snapback]63865[/snapback][/right]

as someone who does not speak english as a primary language you should appreciate the importance of capitalization and punctuation after all they are there for your benefit they separate the stream of words and convey the logical path and grouping of ideas which leads to easier comprehension especially if you do not start your sentences with a subject or write passive sentences it is very hard to really keep up with what is being said unless you know where each idea starts and stops even if you spell every word perfectly leaving out punctuation makes it very hard for your reader to understand what you mean when you do not use punctuation your ideas just ramble together also a different punctuation grouping can give a sentence completely different meanings so it is best to pay attention to such things while correct punctuation should be most beneficial to people who do not speak english as a first language my main point was that to people who do speak english as a first language it should be as natural as breathing as such it should actually take more effort to get it wrong than to do it right that is something that just does not make much sense to me of course people do make occasional typos and use very informal grammar and that sort of thing almost never gets flamed here from what i have seen if a native english speaker is reviewing his posts for content and making thoughtful posts getting the grammar to an acceptable level should be very trivial of course for european posters who speak english as a second language the grammar rules do not always make sense but frankly the worst grammar problems here usually come from native english speakers who just do not care about writing coherently