Why some people write without any punctuation?  Is it 'cos their native language doesn't require such?
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Don't you think the SMS is the culprit?
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a language question... i'm not even sure this is a question. so ironic that a language question is so badly written.\n\nwhat's up with all the contractions? it's not like it takes eternity to type you, your, are, answer, please, one, ...\n\nyou can't even spell "leters" right. so much for a language "question" and i just noticed that it's in the category Education.
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I think it is a combination of the facts that people are in a hurry to get those BEST answers, people that just have poor spelling & grammar skills due to intelligence or language barriers, and flat out laziness.  I am too anal to leave mine unchecked lol.  If I do happen to forget to hit spell check, then notice something is wrong with my post afterwards--I try to go back and fix it.  It makes me nutty to not be able to edit other's posts, to do the same sometimes.  I guess that's why my College Writing professor wanted me to help edit other student's papers lol.
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There is a lot of people who have grammar problems but you dont have to be that harsh. You think English is easy to learn? Even the people who were born in the U.S or England have grammar problems. Nobody is perfect. It's not the matter of stupidity but the matter of being a human. Not saying there's no stupid people out there. Just dont worked up over little things like this. I rather see people trying to write in english than go into Yahoo answers and write in spanish assuming people know spanish. Take a chill pill girl. Besides, look at yourself before you judge people. Your sentences aren't that perfect eaither.
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Because in a written medium, writing is all we see of another's personality.\n\nIf a guy I was talking to on the street - no matter how interesting the conversation - suddenly started speaking in a heavy Creole dialect that I couldn't understand, I might mention it. In fact, I'm pretty darned certain that I would mention it!\n\nTypos and spelling errors, IMO, aren't that big a deal, so I don't point them out as a rule. If someone is misusing a word I might ask, "Do you mean thisword? In that case I think . . ." as a way of letting them know politely.\n\nbt i gota tl u dat wen i c a centnc lik dis, i skp d intir post. What is the point of trying to communicate with someone who can't communicate clearly in that language? I figure that if I'm shouting at a deaf person, ~I'm~ the one with the problem.\n\nPersonally, I appreciate it when someone corrects my writing ~if~ they do it gently and with a helpful attitude. If they're just playing one-up, I may learn something, but they lose my respect.\n\nAnother reason, I think, is that some of us simply love language. Here's something I wrote which shows how I feel:\n\nAmerican English is a beautiful language, though many Brits would laugh at the suggestion. It’s a fluid language, growing and evolving as fast as our upstart country itself. It’s spoken in a symphony of accent, idiom and dialect, sung on street corners and in opera houses, the child of many parents. It takes what it needs from this or that language to round itself out; it’s vibrant and alive.\n\nOf course the spell checker isn't working, so no doubt I've made errors! Ain't it always the way?
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Because they don't understand that word order, tenses, etc. may be different in different lands. The same would be true if an English-speaking person tried using perhaps Spanish or French for the first time: it would sound funny to a Spanish or French-speaking person.
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It depends on how you're using them. I would say that most of the time you would NOT want it in the parantheses.\n\nFor example:\nDo you like the show Crime Scene Investigation (CSI)?\nOne of the most popular TV shows is CSI (don't you love that show?).\n\n\nI'm wondering if you meant to ask about punctuation in quotation marks??  If this is the case, the proper use is different between the US and UK/Canada.  In the US, the punctuation always goes inside the quotation marks.  Outside of the US, there are a number of rules around that.  See the link below for more details.
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We don't need to spell or worry about syntax. Didn't you hear Jesus died on the cross so we wouldn't have to worry about punctuation and the like.
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Because you can't spell it.
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You are definitely not alone!  I agree that we can't be harsh on those for whom English is a second language; but for those of us who have been speaking and writing it almost since birth - well, it's a disgrace!  You are not a "boring old pedant"; bad grammar and spelling make it very difficult sometimes even to understand a question, or comprehend what the asker is saying.  It's all about communication, and badly constructed sentences impede that communication.\n\nMy pet irritations are (if you're interested!):\nYour and you're\nBetween you and I (between you and me!)\nMe and John went to the shops (John and I...)\nLets go to the shop's (let's go to the shops)\nHe took a photgraph of John and I (...of John and me)\nWho and whose\nThose who are obsessed with putting apostrophes before any "s"\nThose who are obsessed with using mainly unnecessary "myselfs"\nAnd many more...\n\nAnother boring old pedant...
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Though I am a lawyer, I cannot understand your question, as it appears to have been written in the e e cummings style of no punctuation.  Sorry.
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There are several reasons. In some cases, it is simply due to quick typing and insufficient editing. It's easy to confuse the spelling of homophones such as "their" and "there" when writing rapidly.\n\nAlso, many of those who seem incapable of using correct grammar and spelling are actually young people trying to emulate ghetto culture by spelling "want" as "wont" and "with" as "wit," etc... These are the mistakes that I find particularly annoying for some reason, perhaps because I feel like young people should at least make an effort to come across as sincere and thoughtful when asking someone who is wiser or more learned for information or help.\n\nThe popularity of chatting has also resulted in an overuse of certain abbreviations which has unfortunately become the standard for online communication. This is where some of the laziness in grammar and spelling comes in, as well.\n\nIn addition, there are those posting for whom English is a second or third language. At certain times of the day, there are a number of people on here from India, for example. And while it's easy to be impatient with mistakes that even the least educated American wouldn't make, I try to remind myself that these people speak two or more languages fluently and that I should therefore not only tolerate minor errors but be ashamed of the even worse errors perpetrated by my own fellow Americans.\n\nFinally, however, there are a certain number of the population who just don't seem to have a basic grasp of grammar, spelling, or punctuation and who don't even seem to care. There are unfortunately so many of these people, that I'm afraid Yahoo would have more than a full-time job trying to keep up with their errors. \n\nIn my opinion, therefore, the best thing those of us who do think it's worth investing a little time and thought into how we express our thoughts online is to try to set a good example for the others, both in our questions and our responses. And though I try to resist the temptation to correct other people's errors, I sometimes find it very difficult to do so. This is especially the case when they've obviously not even made half an effort and don't appear to be foreign. When that's the case, and if they exhibit even the slightest bit of arrogance, closed-mindedness, or bigotry, I usually "let 'er rip"!
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Laziness..spell-checker and the internet... Enough said....\nIt's a pet-peave of mine too.. I don't expect perfect grammar, but I at least want to be able to understand what one is saying to me...I'm not a perfectionist, but let's get real...Nobody takes you seriously if you can't tell the difference between to, two and too...Geez! DRIVES ME CRAZY!!
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some people really can't spell. others, as I tend to do sometimes, just don't feel like using correct grammar and punctuation when the message can get across by using slang or a homemade version of shorthand.
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Wheee!!! Really looking to stick it to Americans... until we look at your written mechanics. LMAO!!!\n\nNo capital letters, internal comma is missing, hmmmm....\n\nGotta love it!
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They're lazy.  That's all there is to it.  I'm surprised anyone in their right mind can read that gibberish.\n\nThe only reasons I take time to write properly are 1) I had several English teachers who were real sticklers for spelling & grammar, so much so that sometimes they counted for half my grade, and 2) force of habit due to #1.
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My favorite question ever was, "Why can't anybody use proper grammer?"  I do not know why people do not use spell check.  They are lazy, I guess.