Capitalization

Frankie said
Here's another: There is no such word as "prolly" or "probly". The word is, probably. It easy to spell, type, and pronounce.

Unfortunately, people make initial judgments of others by the language we use. In verbal conversations your grammar is key to the first impression others make about you. If you constantly mispronounce words or misuse words, or use a lot of foul language, others can, will, and do form an opinion of you, based on that.

Likewise, in written conversation, such as we have here, people form opinions of others based on comments, on spelling, on the proper use of grammatical skills.

Since written communication is lacking inflection, we rely on punctuation to set the tone of a comment. Exclamation points (!) are used to indicate excitement, surprise, or anger, Question marks (?), naturally indicate a question. Periods are to end a sentence, an abbreviation or a number or letters to itemize a list. Commas (,) are punctuation marks used especially as a mark of separation within the sentence. They have other uses, too.

These are very basic grammatical items that help in conveying your thoughts more clearly to others, reduce the possibilities of misunderstandings, and simply make our written comments much easier to read. The are also extremely easy to use. Periods, commas don't even require using the shift key!

Most older members here use these punctuations regularly. Many younger members don't. It's a matter of preference. That said, it's also a matter of making yourself understood. Especially in longer posts.

I'll admit, when I see a post that isn't punctuated, or is simply a run on sentence for more than 20 words or so, I usually just move on to the next post. I'm simply not going to devote the time to reading, and re-reading the post trying to make sense of it.

I'm not claiming that my reading and understanding anyone's post is important to anyone besides me, but, it's a pretty sure bet that if one person is doing that, others are too.

It's a pity that your comments, opinions, questions, etc. stand the possibility of being ignored simply because you decided that capitalization, punctuation, and decent (not excellent) grammar isn't necessary.

Do not diss the the probly. I talk like that all the time. I know it's probably, I've tried to say it probably, but while it may be easy to say, it just comes off as a bit of a mouthful to say unless you are a slower talker which I am not. I try to keep my spelling and grammar in check just because it's much easier to read, and you don't get **** for having a horrible looking post. *ahem* Dart doctor *ahem* (Not trying to get on your case, but I think many of us would appreciate it if your posts were a little more legible than what they usually are.)

I actually started getting the whole typing thing down while playing video games. In game chat either has to be fast, or accurate, or after a lot of practice both. After playing it for a while my wpms were up, and I had great grammar, mostly. It would be nice if people actually cared about the way they come off on the internet, but as one guy said: it's the internet i don't care what other people think of me because they'll never meet me. There's not much you can do about those types of people. And like some have said, you have people that just don't care. Take my brother for instance, he's quite smart and articulate, but he swears all the time and has absolutely atrocious grammar when on facebook. I'm not a grammar nazi by any means, but seriously every time I see something that he has written I want go up to him and say FIX IT NOW! He knows and he doesn't care, and it's annoying as h*ll because there's nothing I can do to fix it except call him out and when I do that he basically says F**k off I do what I want.

also: irregardless is not a word.