baijuxavior
Well-Known Member
I will try to use that symbol wherever possible.
You missed one opportunity to do so!
I got it!
Use plain english
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srramanujam
Active Member
A panda walks into a caf. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.
'Why?' asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
'Well, I'm a panda,' he says, at the door. 'Look it up.'
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. 'Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.'
Background to the book this forum would like most - Eats shoots and leaves.
'Why?' asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
'Well, I'm a panda,' he says, at the door. 'Look it up.'
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. 'Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.'
Background to the book this forum would like most - Eats shoots and leaves.
shershah
New Member
ah! sorry - quite forgot that this section is meant for feedback and suggestion.
Cheers, warm regards, yours truly and sincerely, and without any offence meant
i remain-
Cheers, warm regards, yours truly and sincerely, and without any offence meant
i remain-
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I agree completely.
My point is that, for the pooling and the dispersal of knowledge, we must all be able to communicate to each other in a way that facilitates easy and complete understanding. Communication happens only when what the "sender" says is understood by the "receiver" exactly as the "sender" intended the "receiver" to.
Also, we should show consideration to the others who read our posts when we write something. So we must write in a way that does not make it difficult for the other person to understand what we are writing.
I'm not a grammar-nazi or a spelling-nazi. We all make mistakes when we write. But these mistakes are made not because we do not care for the manner in which we write. We also do not deliberately choose to use the wrong spellings (or wrong grammar) simply because it suits *our* convenience of the moment.
All that somebody who does not know English well needs to do is to make his best effort to get his point/idea/query across. As long as he does not use SMS lingo, as long as he takes care to use punctuation and sentence breaks and paragraph breaks to the best of his knowledge, as long as he thinks out what he wants to write and writes it in a manner that shows consideration to the reader, he has done what it takes.
This is going a bit far afield, but I will illustrate what I'm trying to say by giving four examples: Three examples of unacceptable posts (in my personal opinion) by people who know enough English to be able to write well, and one example of an acceptable enough post (in my personal opinion) by somebody who makes typos and grammatical mistakes.
Example Post 1: The SMS Slave
Example Post 2: The Rambling Mind
Example Post 3: The Endless, Punctuation-less Sentence
Example Post 4: He may not be good at spellings and he may not be the best with grammar. But he tries sincerely to make the reader understand what he wants to say, by using proper punctuation, sentence breaks and paragraph breaks.
End of rant.
Thad E Ginathom
Well-Known Member
Hydra, your post should be borrowed by the moderators of all serious forums (fora, to the pedants ). It says it all, perfectly
Actually, again for the pedants, the paragraph breaks in the last example are not really correct: the first two sentences, about speakers, belong in the same paragraph.
I'm not lecturing, because I write like this too. To me, it is a compromise between formal, written English, and colloquial conversation. Neither is 100% appropriate to forum interaction, so we create a hybrid.
I have been a moderator on an international site, and I completely agree that no-one should be penalised for not being fluent at English. Nor are we here to criticise each other's spelling or grammar. Without built-in spelling checkers, my posts would be riddled with errors, and a few get through anyway!
). It says it all, perfectly Actually, again for the pedants, the paragraph breaks in the last example are not really correct: the first two sentences, about speakers, belong in the same paragraph.
I'm not lecturing, because I write like this too. To me, it is a compromise between formal, written English, and colloquial conversation. Neither is 100% appropriate to forum interaction, so we create a hybrid.
I have been a moderator on an international site, and I completely agree that no-one should be penalised for not being fluent at English. Nor are we here to criticise each other's spelling or grammar. Without built-in spelling checkers, my posts would be riddled with errors, and a few get through anyway!
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baijuxavior
Well-Known Member
Viewers, please have a look at this thread:
Real Movie Experience
The moderator closed this thread because of the 'awesome' language!
Real Movie Experience
The moderator closed this thread because of the 'awesome' language!
shershah
New Member
I agree completely.
My point is that, for the pooling and the dispersal of knowledge, we must all be able to communicate to each other in a way that facilitates easy and complete understanding. Communication happens only when what the "sender" says is understood by the "receiver" exactly as the "sender" intended the "receiver" to.
Also, we should show consideration to the others who read our posts when we write something. So we must write in a way that does not make it difficult for the other person to understand what we are writing.
I'm not a grammar-nazi or a spelling-nazi. We all make mistakes when we write. But these mistakes are made not because we do not care for the manner in which we write. We also do not deliberately choose to use the wrong spellings (or wrong grammar) simply because it suits *our* convenience of the moment.
All that somebody who does not know English well needs to do is to make his best effort to get his point/idea/query across. As long as he does not use SMS lingo, as long as he takes care to use punctuation and sentence breaks and paragraph breaks to the best of his knowledge, as long as he thinks out what he wants to write and writes it in a manner that shows consideration to the reader, he has done what it takes.
This is going a bit far afield, but I will illustrate what I'm trying to say by giving four examples: Three examples of unacceptable posts (in my personal opinion) by people who know enough English to be able to write well, and one example of an acceptable enough post (in my personal opinion) by somebody who makes typos and grammatical mistakes.
Example Post 1: The SMS Slave
Example Post 2: The Rambling Mind
Example Post 3: The Endless, Punctuation-less Sentence
Example Post 4: He may not be good at spellings and he may not be the best with grammar. But he tries sincerely to make the reader understand what he wants to say, by using proper punctuation, sentence breaks and paragraph breaks.
End of rant.
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ajay124
Well-Known Member
hydra
"grammar nazi" is good!It's not very often that one comes across somebody using language,any language,with a touch of class.Keep it up
"grammar nazi" is good!It's not very often that one comes across somebody using language,any language,with a touch of class.Keep it up
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