Why writing style and grammar matters in posts

[IanB]

Made has not the sound of bade

Oh.

[Mechatrommer]

My posts might look OK to many, but often I will spend 30 mins doing a simple reply (lots of editing and making sure it’s easy for others to read before posting, whereas most people probably spend only two or three mins doing the same sort of reply.

You missed the closing bracket I noticed that the third time I read it, so it clearly wasn't that important!

Mind you, in my defence, at infant school in the late 60s my school decided to experiment on my year (both my older sisters escaped this) by trying to teach me using something called ITA.

One of my earliest memories is asking my father to teach me to read. He did. We got a few pages into the second "Janet and John" book, and decided to move onto interesting stuff. Consequently I could read well before starting school at 5. School was boring.

A couple of years later I saw the ITA, thought it was a bloody stupid idea for two reasons. Obviously you have to learn to read twice. Plus you can't continue to learn by reading all the interesting things you find around you.

Summary: I have a lot of sympathy.

and you quoted wrongly. you put your words into HobGoblyn's mouth and HobGoblyn's words into Nominal Animal's. be carefull with opening and closing quote's tag (missing opening or closing bracket is not as bad) this can be seen as irresponsible act. preview your post before posting. cheers ymmv.

[Mechatrommer]

...I will keep you, Susy, busy,...

thats called poet and its poetry. there's an art in drawing canvas, there's an art in developing rigol GUI, and there's an art in using words (linguistics), poets, analogical skill or idioms are few of them imho... you seem to have the linguistics artistic talent... i dont usually unleash that talent unless to girls or to my wife before we marry, because they can be affected the most. normally i just tend to use shortest sentence possible to convey (mostly technical) message such as "Suzy can you give me a massage? because my head is dizzy" thats it. no need unnecessary redundant use or extra words. from some point of view i do see redundant words as similar to nonsensical hieroglyphs, just a waste of space and time ymmv cheers.

[tggzzz]

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and you quoted wrongly. you put your words into HobGoblyn's mouth and HobGoblyn's words into Nominal Animal's. be carefull with opening and closing quote's tag (missing opening or closing bracket is not as bad) this can be seen as irresponsible act. preview your post before posting. cheers ymmv.

The second one was careless; corrected. Not sure why you included the first one, but it isn't worth discussing.

[Mechatrommer]

Not sure why you included the first one, but it isn't worth discussing.

i'm not interested in missing bracket either (although in some cases it can raise confusion as to where the sentence stop or continue), the relevance is that, we need to check our post more carefully. so your advice/reminder in that post is relevant to him, to you and me and other readers. cheers.

[xvr]

A small offtopic, may be.

There are a lot of not native English speakers (including me, of course), but sometimes we can see here some sentences which hardly understandable. Only a few wish to decipher these writing.
It seems that it writes not in English at all.

Like this -

No one had had the slightest desire to learn the language of the boghogs for the simple reason that these creatures communicated by biting each other very hard on the thigh.

But much worse when someone starts to write in all cap. Come across the title "HELP!!!!" and think - it’s a matter of life and death. Next open topic and read "AM NEWBIE. HOW TO CONNECT BULB TO BATTERY???"

Another quote -

He got as far as, “Where shall I put -” when there was a sudden violent flurry and he collapsed heavily against the door, trying to beat off a small and mangy creature that had leapt snarling out of the wet night and buried its teeth in his thigh, even through the thick layers of leather padding he wore there. There was a brief, ugly confusion of jabbering and thrashing. The man shouted frantically and pointed. Arthur grabbed a hefty stick that stood next to the door expressly for this purpose and beat at the boghog with it.
...
“What do you think it was trying to say?” asked Arthur in a small voice.
“Ah, nothing much,” said the man “Just its way of trying to be friendly. This is just our way of being friendly back,” he added, gripping the stick.

My message: Write right - Be Human, not boghot!

PS. Quotes from book "Mostly Harmless" by Douglas Adams (Book 5 of trilogy "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")