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Lesson Example

I know, since everyone is educated and mature, I assume you'll probably scoff at me and call me foolish for bringing up a lecture like this, mates. But I feel like liberating my inner sage and I will run though this stuff here, inspired by this thread above.

First lesson: Excess capitalization, like in all-caps typing.


This is your typical desperate writer. He shows an utter disregard of capitalization, punctuation, and grammar. The only thing correct is the spelling.



Don't do that. Instead, type like this:



What's wrong with typing with all caps? Glad you asked.

It implies that you're yelling. Think of forum chatting as talking to a whole bunch of people in a room. You wouldn't, in the greatest sense, yell over at all the people. It is deemed appropriate that you give courtesy by respecting the atmosphere.

In other words, typing in all caps is equated with yelling.

And here's the second lesson, a basic run-though on basic English stuff you should've learned even in kindergarten.

Next lesson, examples of common sentence errors





Okay, even when not garbled, your average sentence can still be an agonizing eyesore. There is a lack of proper capitalization and punctuation. The spelling is, of course, correct. If anyone sees a mistake that I may have missed, kudos to you. whee



This is the same case as last example, but you're one correction short. Either the writer forgot to capitalize his/her "I's", or is too lazy to do so. It's not too bad; you're just forgetting the capital "I." All spelling and punctuation are correct.



This is a perfect example of correct typing, both grammatically, structurally, and spelling-wise, correct. All well-taught and literate Gaians should be following this example.



This is what you shouldn't do. As you know, this is capitalization that is woefully unnecessary.

Advanced Final Lesson: The Mother of All Errors

And finally, for you text-talk fanatics, you're in for a rude awakening. twisted





Now this is, undoubtedly, the worst possible examples I can give you yet, mate. It is the ultimate horror of horrors for even sane and sensible souls like yourselves to bear, for as if these sentences alone are riddled with horrible errors that are either barely legible or by no means understandable. The first example is normal text talk. Example Two is full-blown, super-retarded n00bish mode. twisted Not counting excessive emoticons.

And that's the end of the lesson. Any questions or comments? question

Apoligize --> apologize
Whats --> What's

Kudos to me. whee xd

You mean punctuation? Right here in the examples, I point out common errors from the forums. Just a point of interest. And as for another user:



Congratulations! You've found the error in the example! You get a cookie. whee