Email Grammar.
does it bug anyone else how some people refuse to use caps or punctuation for that matter in emails i for one cant stand it im a bit of a grammar nazi anyway and so when i get an email that looks like this i just want to pull my hair out
Okay, enough of that! Seriously, what is the deal with this total disregard for any sort of grammatical formatting. No caps, commas, periods, apostrophes - not even paragraph breaks! It makes it really hard to read, and for some strange reason I always find myself reading emails like this in a low monotone voice in my head without any pauses or breaks. Try it. It somehow seems to fit.
This phenomenon also exists in the text messaging world. Though I get that it is harder to text at lightning fast speeds if you have to hit the caps button, or find the right punctuation, but who cares?!?!? I always go back through a text message to insert commas and periods and apostrophes, etc.
The worst part is that it seems to be intentional!! It almost seems like it's somehow cool to refuse to use punctuation in an email. It's not that these people don't know how to use punctuation, they simply choose not to. Personally, I had to do a lot of backspacing in that little section above to change capital letters, to erase commas and periods. I simply cannot email like that. To this is an awful trend. What's next?
arewegoingtostartemailinglikethistoeachotherwhynotiteliminatesonemorekeyonthe
keyboardthatwedonthavetouse
And that's all for now...
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the monotone thing doesn't work for me i can still hear a normal human voice speaking but its usually a female voice sort of like milla jovovichs voice now that rabbit trail isnt important whats important is whether youre going to go back through this comment and correct the punctuation and capitalization omissions and err umm do you feel lucky well punk do you
That's what happens when you get emails and texts from teenagers. As little effort as possible.
I'd prefer that to supposedly educated adults who use terms like "could of" instead of could have.
And don't get me started on what Lawrence's teacher calls "tracking the decline of Western civilization through the misuse of the apostrophe". I think I'll steal that one and make it my own.
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