What happened to punctuation?

[Rulz]

I read comments, sales ads, Facebook, YouTube...what the hell happened to using proper punctuation?

I know spelling and grammar have been declining in the general American population for some time now (perhaps since many text using shorthand, every kid born since 1995 has ADD or ADHD, etc.), but for shits sake...how hard is it to lace some words together using a period between thoughts at the very least? Maybe a comma here and there?

Even if used incorrectly it's much easier to read something written by the common village idiot when there's a period or two.

I sift through a lot of ads on Craigslist, Facebook market, GunBroker, just different places looking to see what's for sale. Sometimes just checking out current prices on some items. But I have to stop reading an ad after some asshole just starts typing and doesn't take the time to separate the sentences. I will have to assume some people are maybe even bigger lazy asses and are using the dictation feature on their iPhone without going back and proofreading one bit.

 

[hollywood]

I read comments, sales ads, Facebook, YouTube...what the hell happened to using proper punctuation?

I know spelling and grammar have been declining in the general American population for some time now (perhaps since many text using shorthand, every kid born since 1995 has ADD or ADHD, etc.), but for shits sake...how hard is it to lace some words together using a period between thoughts at the very least? Maybe a comma here and there?

Even if used incorrectly it's much easier to read something written by the common village idiot when there's a period or two.

I sift through a lot of ads on Craigslist, Facebook market, GunBroker, just different places looking to see what's for sale. Sometimes just checking out current prices on some items. But I have to stop reading an ad after some asshole just starts typing and doesn't take the time to separate the sentences. I will have to assume some people are maybe even bigger lazy asses and are using the dictation feature on their iPhone without going back and proofreading one bit.

It amazes me how bad the spelling in Facebook pages or Craigslist ads actually are.

Like when i pour over the adds and see sloopy missteaks and miss uses and miss spellings of common words and frazes that a kredible 8th grader sholdn-t make, to.

 

[Ostatedchi]

I chuckled out loud. Solid

 

[The Duke]

Were not two smart folcs like dose fancie east cost folk. ..

 

[BluegrassPoke]

Can we get @southernpoke and @osuhoops316 hot takes on the subject here?

 

[Rulz]

Sheeit I wuz hopin sum wun wit sum Moore braynes then mee wood chime in on this heah subjeckt

 

[anon_ph7vrsh7abnty]

I'd have liked it better had your original post had no punctuation.

 

[CBradSmith]

@died

#moveon
#resist
#imwithhermes

@MAGA
dot com
Dot org
Covfefe

 

[Rulz]

I'd have liked it better had your original post had no punctuation.

Well house this look better I bet it does shit I just will type all this bullshit up here and see how much fun it is to read assholes love to chime in on thing and then type up dumb shit on Facebook and it always seems they have a hard on for some topic but a soft ass for grannar why I would take the head off a sumbitch for typing like this you would thintk they wood have more since but cents they don't an ass whuppin wood no good damn I just a ate a cheeseburger and farted 78 times damned onions my wife hates my bat breathe and smelly ass I blamed it on the dog but it's a chiweenie hey did you no those dogs are small and probably don't make a sound when they fart but it will smell like death my step son plays video games all day and won't work wish that prick would move out but hell I bet he wont since momma still wipes his ass well I guess I better go got a booger on my finger and it's smearing my screen guess that's what happens when you are too lazy to stop typing long enough to flick a booger thank gawd for Dyson vac

 

[hollywood]

Rulz,

You caused me to do a spit take. I was perusing some YouTube videos getting some ideas for my Ugly Drum Smoker project and I see one with the wording "Char Cole" in the headline, not once but twice. I had just taken a swig of water and had to jerk my head to the left rapidly so I didn't spit up on my keyboard.

 

[squeak]

I read comments, sales ads, Facebook, YouTube...what the hell happened to using proper punctuation?

I know spelling and grammar have been declining in the general American population for some time now (perhaps since many text using shorthand, every kid born since 1995 has ADD or ADHD, etc.), but for shits sake...how hard is it to lace some words together using a period between thoughts at the very least? Maybe a comma here and there?

Even if used incorrectly it's much easier to read something written by the common village idiot when there's a period or two.

I sift through a lot of ads on Craigslist, Facebook market, GunBroker, just different places looking to see what's for sale. Sometimes just checking out current prices on some items. But I have to stop reading an ad after some asshole just starts typing and doesn't take the time to separate the sentences. I will have to assume some people are maybe even bigger lazy asses and are using the dictation feature on their iPhone without going back and proofreading one bit.

You mean "shit's sake."

Your use of the second ellipsis is questionable.

You should have added "and" before the last item in your list in the first sentence of paragraph four.

The second sentence in paragraph four is a fragment.

 

[Cowpoke]

Part of me wants to share facebook messages I get from family members, but then part of me remembers the lyrics to "Outfit"

 

[OSUIvan]

I think part of it has to do with texting. I read an article that is it was rude to use punctuation in text messages. I'm not grammar scholar, in fact I will freely admit I'm bad, but I try hard to get better and I dont care if it is rude I use commas and periods in texts like an ass hole that I am!

 

[squeak]

I think part of it has to do with texting. I read an article that is it was rude to use punctuation in text messages. I'm not grammar scholar, in fact I will freely admit I'm bad, but I try hard to get better and I dont care if it is rude I use commas and periods in texts like an ass hole that I am!

Apparently it's often rude to use a period

 

[Rulz]

I think part of it has to do with texting. I read an article that is it was rude to use punctuation in text messages. I'm not grammar scholar, in fact I will freely admit I'm bad, but I try hard to get better and I dont care if it is rude I use commas and periods in texts like an ass hole that I am!

That sounds almost like it "offends" some idiot and makes them feel all small and shit, as if the display of proper grammar is a pretentious act...like you are subconsciously putting them down for being a lazy, slack jawed, soft talkin fagit who didn't pay attention in school and/or is just too lazy to tap the button and change up the keyboard for punctuation.

I guess I must offend the shit out of slack jawed idiots.