SAINT WAS UNABLE TO POST THIS, SO I DID IT FOR HIM. DON'T SHOOT THE MESSENGER, PL0X
If you go to other communities like mmorpg.com you will notice something. The posts are usually well thought out and properly executed uses of the English language. You don't see posts looking like this:
Note the improper usage of ellipsis to begin with. Wikipedia has a great example of when to use an ellipsis:Quote:
I'm currently in Sec 3! Thats grade 9 to everyone. As I was chattering with me pwetty friends like everyday, today something new happened. There's this kid which barely reaches like...12 years old or maybe 10? O.o ( He looked like 10 to me ) That came and asked me and mah friend out...( Which eveyrone is either 15 or 16...) ...He was pretending to be sooo cool....which he almost ended by getting his butt kicked by our bfs =P...Kids of these days...-sigh-
Read that and study it, children. It seems that you all feel the need to use an ellipsis after every sentence. In fact, I bet if you were to go through every post made on OnRPG.com you would indeed find that the ellipsis was used more than the period.Quote:
The Chicago Manual of Style suggests the use of an ellipsis (also known as an ellipse) for any omitted word, phrase, line or paragraph from within a quoted passage. There are two commonly used methods of using ellipses: one uses three dots for any omission, the second makes a distinction between omissions within a sentence (using three spaced dots: . . .) and omissions between sentences (using a period and a space followed by three nonbreaking-spaced dots: . . . .). Therefore, there is no such thing as a "four-dot ellipsis." A period followed by an ellipsis may look like four dots, but they are two separate entities.
I also see a large use of "AIM speak". u dun ned 2 typ evri sntnce lik dis. Seriously. The whole 2.3643685435432 seconds you save by typing like that are hardly worth it. Whenever I see a post written like that, 9/10 times I just skip over it. It takes longer to read a post that was poorly written than one where proper grammar and punctuation were used. Actually, it takes me longer to use AIM speak than it does to type properly.
A lot of you don't use paragraphs properly either. Wikipedia defines a paragraph as this:
This is how I see a lot of posts around here:Quote:
A paragraph is a self-contained unit of a discourse in a written text dealing with a particular point or idea, or the words of a speaker. The start of a paragraph is indicated by beginning on a new line and ending without running to the next passage. Sometimes the first line is indented, and sometimes it is indented without beginning a new line. At various times the beginning of a paragraph has been indicated by the pilcrow mark:¶.
Thats a direct quote, ladies and gentlemen. A paragraph doesn't need to be used for every sentence. In fact, all of those were in the same idea. It should have been written like so:Quote:
ya man
that completely sucks
i'm sorry for you
want a hug?
Lastly, I would like to see words actually written out. Yeah we all know not using the final "H" in "Yeah" (yea) is so much faster than actually writing it out and everything but to me it just makes you look stupid. So write out your damn words.Quote:
Yeah man, that completely sucks. I'm sorry for you. Want a hug?
