This is a wonderful Forum.

BUT

It would Even Better if;

1.) All posters would have the Year and Model (Coupe or Convertible) in their Signature or Avatar or Message.

And;

2.) All Posters would check their Spelling (Is the word you just typed underlined in red?), and Punctuation.

Then;

Use the "Preview Post" Button to see what their post will actually look like Before hitting the "Submit" button.

So There!

 

I think Paul has just enrolled in the 'Gramma Police'

Watch out all

 

Yup, Da Gramma Police!!

 

Grouchy old guy.

 

I agree on the above, but typing from a mobile phone using the little tiny qwerty keyboard is hard and takes FOREVER to get caps on, use that comma, not to mention typing out the entire word. I often allow lots of leniency to grammar and spelling if I know a post is from a mobile. I just wish it said (POSTED FROM MOBILE) automatically...sometimes I do add that very statement before or at the end of my own mobile-apped post.

BTW Paul, shouldn't it read just razzin ya Professor English.

 

Hello Paul
may i ask what colour is your car?

 

I have seen "wsroe" (worse) spelling examples than this forum but as for the punctattion you are right because it makes hard to figure out meaning the words lol

 

 

Well, I left out the "be" on purpose, just to show what happens when we don't Preview our Posts!

dennisw: My Car is British Racing Green.

 

Spelling and grammer used to be my pet peeves until a while ago too Paul, like any forum we have good, bad and indifferent examples here, but thats just the way it is.

Please bear in mind ( as I and others here do ) that this is a multi cultural forum with members from literally all over the world, with differing educational backgrounds and much more I'd guess.

What put it into perspective for me was some serious member bashing, some time ago for poor spelling, grammatical errors and the like, to the point where it was almost bullying.

This seriously had to stop and an end was put to this kind of behaviour.

I, myself always try to ensure good spelling etc, but sometimes with the amount of posts I can make I simply do not have time to spell check them.

For so many reasons, including but not limited to the aforementioned, I now try to be as forgiving as possible on that front

 

My viewpoint is in my sig

But, seriously ... reading a message over and over to divine the meaning of the question being posed is hard work.

Over time, one tends to ignore such questions because it is easier that way. So, who loses? Everyone.

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If you use the Firefox Browser, instead of IE, it does an automatic spell check, even for posts in forums.

 

well scrap, I didn't know the deletion was on purpose...really, I couldn't tell. Oh well. I hear ya plums, if i have to read a post more than once, okay...maybe twice to get some meaning, I move on. The five runon sentences together and missing conjunctions kill my interest.

 

1.) and 2.) ??

Are they smilies?

 

Yup. After Starting this post, I experimented with IE8 (which I don't normally use) and realized that there is no Spell Check.

I always use SeaMonkey (Like Firefox) and the Spell Check uses a Spelling Data file included in the Browser's Files: (en-US.dic).

 

Hey, Paul, you grammar meister, you

I think it only fair to point out that you have used two incorrect tenses in your 'if' clauses. You can't follow a conditional by a conditional perfect, but only with an imperfect, thus:

This forum would be better if members had...

NOT

This forum would be better if members would have...

Similarly, a double conditional is impossible:

It would be better if members checked (imperfect) and not would check.

Finally, it is never good practice to begin a sentence with 'and', or 'but', and there is no justification for the capital letters half way through your sentences.

Sorry, but rules are rules

 

To paraphrase Winston Churchill:

This is the sort of criticism Up with which, I will Not Put!!!

 

Oh brother! I'm the queen of typos. And I can't say I have a degree so if you
are too snobbish to read errors in a message, please avoid mine altogether.

Picky, Picky, Picky.

I'm so glad we have different gifts.

 

You would have a field day on the XKEC, there are a few members who are terrible..... I can be just as bad, I have a nasty habit of writing in phonetics, and with a London accent .... you can imagine..
Well wot can I say sounds perfik in my 'ead, dunnit

 

Professor enry iggins:

"Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire.
Why can't the English Learn to Speak?"