Caelum pretender design

[The_Tauren13]

Boron said:
1. correct . the name sounds feminine though
so i continue saying her

heh.. made me laugh anyway



the way i see it, the point of language is to communicate. most people dont have any problem with reading lower case. if not capitalizing letters makes it really hard for you to read, maybe you need new glasses...
i guess it comes from playing so much CS and other real time games where if you take the time to spell things out perfectly and capitalize everything, you die.
and who cares if someone thinks youre uncivilized and uneducated when you already know they hate you.

[Graeme Dice]

The_Tauren13 said:
the way i see it, the point of language is to communicate. most people dont have any problem with reading lower case.

Most people do actually. That's why capitalization was invented in the first place back in the 900's.

if not capitalizing letters makes it really hard for you to read, maybe you need new glasses...

Capitalization tells people where new sentences begin.

[The_Tauren13]

hmm... i wonder what a period is for?

[Arryn]

Graeme, don't bother trying to educate Tauren & Boron, it's a waste of time. I solved my problem with their Posts by using the ignore user functionality of the new forum software. Cleans things up rather nicely. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon45.gif[/img]

[Graeme Dice]

The_Tauren13 said:
hmm... i wonder what a period is for?

A period tells people where a sentence ends.

Basically, it comes down to the fact that your message is only written once, but is read many times. This means that it's up to you to make your message easy to read so that other people aren't being inconvenienced.

[Kel]

The_Tauren13 said:
hmm... i wonder what a period is for?

Somehow, I am not certain whether that was sarcasm or you were asking an honest question

- Kel

[The_Tauren13]

Graeme Dice said:

Most people do actually. That's why capitalization was invented in the first place back in the 900's.

most people, eh? that doesnt even seem to include you. you dont have any problem reading it; you are just whining about it because you want another reason for me to be wrong.
ive never seen anyone truly unable to comprehend text due to lack of punctuation

[Graeme Dice]

The_Tauren13 said:
most people, eh? that doesnt even seem to include you. you dont have any problem reading it; you are just whining about it because you want another reason for me to be wrong. ive never seen anyone truly unable to comprehend text due to lack of punctuation

Are you not aware that there's a difference between writing that's comprehendable and writing that's easy to read? As I've already explained, your message is only being written once, and read many times, so your laziness is no excuse.

[Zapmeister]

Gotta agree with Graeme's drift here, if not with his spelling of "comprehensible"

[atul]

The_Tauren13 said:
ive never seen anyone truly unable to comprehend text due to lack of punctuation

From a personal experience, since English isn't a native language for me, I sometimes have big problems understanding even typoed text (hard to figure which word it might be), not to mention a text which looks like something that's hit with a big hammer.

The way some people write just gives a bad first impression and ultimately leads to ignoring their texts as it's harder to read than what it's worth for. It's easier just to spot interesting flammable parts from other people's replies.