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Aug 10, 2002, 12:29am

> Um, Bowen, stop being lame. Punctuation is MUCH more lax than word usage
and spelling. It doesn't matter if there are 1 or 2 spaces after
punctuation; I use 1 simply because it's more efficient and less typing.
<shrug> I also put punctuation not originally in the quote OUTSIDE of the
quotation marks because it too is more efficient and exact. Get over it and
learn how to use words correctly--which is what this thread is about.

Efficiency is your excuse for much, but it won't make it proper written
English.

That use of lame is slang by the way, that's not proper English.

Hey if you want to nitpick, I'll nitpick back. You must spell out words
that are less than or equal too ten, but not less than negative ten.

That's fine, because if it wasn't there you usually don't put it in if it's
a quote. Unless you're taking part of a quote, in which case you lead and
end with an Ellipsis with no spaces.

I was being efficient in my own terms though. I was simply saving myself a
fraction of a second by reaching upward to hit the E rather than reaching
upward and across to hit the T.

If he had just said to himself, hmm maybe he misspelt that, T and E are
really close together and I understand what he's saying and so does every
other person that speaks english. He didn't need to post that, which
clearly would've have started this. That's obvious, even I would've noticed
that doing that would've caused useless garbage.

I'm sure you'll retort with something like, "You could've admitted you were
wrong." But, I've yet to even see you do that when you're wrong. Or most
other "men." Yes that is sexist because I notice most females admit they
will, but most guys rarely do. Don't restate the obvious that that's a
generalization, because I used most, not all.

--Bowen--

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