@garcullu-0wrote:
Well this is the internet not finishing school, and unless you can't read English i can't see the problem, now back to the issue at hand, not grammar lessons 😒
I know what you mean; there's certainly a tendency on the internet, and in text messages, to communicate as quickly as possible, disregarding capitals, punctuation, or full spelling.
Bear with me - I have to make an admission before I add anything else. I'm (sob) a bit, just a bit, of a grammar Nazi.
Not manically so - in that I don't shoot people for misusing standard communication (grammar, spelling, correct definition, etc.) - and I tend not to correct them for so doing, but inwardly I may wince just a tad.
Occasionally I may have to ask for a clarification, when the misuse of the communication tortures the poor sentence so severely that it's not clear what the meaning is.
However, I myself am consistent in using punctuation and correct spelling and so on when I communicate; I do this even when texting. The English language with all its complexities and the very story of its history written in our words is (in my opinion) gorgeous, and it does seem to me a painful thing when language is abused due to bad habits or a sort of mental laziness. (Not all misspellings or abuses of semi-colons are due to such things, admittedly. Someone who's coping with literacy issues is to be commended for communicating as best he/she can; children in the process of learning the rules shouldn't be beaten when a comma is misused; typographical errors shouldn't be pounced on to humiliate the person who wrote or typed them; and so on.)
Now that that's out of the way, I want to comment on the major reason why I think you may want to reconsider how you approach internet communication. That is, communications online are not less likely to suffer from the same problems plaguing communication in general. In fact, I consider that they are actually more likely to be affected.
The major purpose of communication is to communicate - clearly, unambiguously. There are other purposes, of course. The "tone" of a communication passes on information as an adjunct to the main piece of information being transmitted. Text has sub-text. Even the particular word chosen may have a connotation which communicates meaning beyond a strict definition of the word. Sometimes the words and the way in which they're strung together communicate not just a bare meaning but also something about the person speaking. Sometimes communication is something greater than its disparate parts.
Clarity is needed for day-to-day communication. Online, we run the risk of being misinterpreted through the lack of the usual non-verbal communication cues that we give and receive in face-to-face communication. Hence, it's all the more important to make sure that the person to whom we direct our communication knows where the sentence ends, which is the noun, whether a word is acting as a verb or an adjective or something else (as may be the case), where the speaker's thought changes, and so on. It's even necessary (I think) to avoid lumping the communication in such a gluggy wordberg that it becomes very difficult for the reader to disentangle.
