So, you mean something like "Throbbing crawdad" would be a bad message title?

Us Firefox users really have no room to spell anything wrong considering the spell check in FF2.0+

Yeah, good thing we haven't had many people type LiKe tHis oR iD Be anGrY L0L!

Oh yea I hate when people write like that. They should be banned immediately if they post here lol.

What is political correctness....? Never heard of it...!

From time to time people get angry and leave anyway, so be it.

If you want or need someone who's overcome political correctness, I'm your guy.

I spent years and years in English classes, back when they actually taught it correctly.
You know, "i" before "e" except after "c" and the like. There is no "noise in Illinois", still, after all these years.

It seems the youth of today are busy texting some b***s*** variant of English from English class. I suppose it's for the better that I'm not an English teacher, since the first time somebody walked up and started spouting nonsense like, "I is" or "dey be", I'd fail them on the spot. Or wow, you can spell "kids" "kidz", here's your "F", that stands for "fantastic", I hope your parents agree.

Computer programming is a very specific language, with almost no room for a misplaced operator, or poorly spelled word. So, it seems to me, that that discipline should crossover to the discussion of the machine.

So remember boys and girls, when you're working out all those clever little abbreviations and misspellings, I don't really give a f*** what happens to "u" or "ur" damned computer.

captaincranky, I agree 100%. I have seen, in English 10 CP (not good enough for honors they say, yet...), a girl have an "essay" that is 5 long run on sentences. She literally had one sentence per paragraph, and they never stopped, not even to capitalize...

Reform School............

I had an English Instructor in Philadelphia Community College who called the school "13th & 14th grade", in a very derisive, accusatory tone.

I suppose that English doesn't intrigue everyone to the same degree but, it does have a rich, robust, and varied wealth of expression. Enough to say anything you might desire, in any way you choose to express yourself. Should you need to speak or write something, you might as well take some pride and enjoyment away from the experience.

Since we're on grammar, let's mind our possessives, okay? For example, we have a collection of CDs, not a collection of CD's. Our CDs don't own anything. Perhaps that's being too picky but that's driven me nuts since I was a teenager.

OK, You Really Did (Almost) Lose Me on That One....

I understand the politically correct thing about saying something on the order of "she is my wife". A feminist might jump all over you with, "when you say it like that, it sounds like you think she is a possession". I unfortunately forget the correct way to phrase that, but I'm willing to be reminded.

I really don't understand where you're going with the CD rant. But in this case, I'm eager to learn. No really, I am.

If you're talking about the apostrophe, that is a head scratcher. Hey, it could also be the verb "is", contracted". Nah, that makes even less sense.

You would have to do some serious rewriting of that sentence to cause anyone to conclude that the CDs own you, or anything else for that matter.

I fully and heartily agree that that is lousy punctuation. <Notice how cleverly I used adverbs instead of adjectives to modify agree, since it is, after all a verb.

Giving the apostrophy devil its' due, I'll say goodnight with, "it's a nice night wouldn't you agree"?

Afterthought:

To paraphrase some silly navy proclamation-slash-motto, "damn the red underlines, full speed ahead".

Mopar, you should have asked if she was twite's sister! LOL

His crazy what?

WARNING: The consumption of alcahol may Mack you tink you can tipe real gode.

Here's another few irritations

1. "a lot" is actually two words
2. If you're going to use acronyms like AGP, at least get it right, not AVP or any other deriviation
3. "i" is actually not a word, "I" is
4. Posting "my friend's PC" is not actually a computer spec.
5. Saying the computer is a PC, can actually mean anything (laptop included)
6. Using usernames like Im-new (or similar) doesn't sound like you'll be around for long
7. Actually knowing zero about computers and terminology, can be annoying
8. Asking howto post or reply to a post is a contradiction in itself
9. No one likes reading a long winded paragraph

And No. 10 on the list of anoyances in creating a new thread. Drum roll...
10. Creating a new thread, under a specific forum should actually come close to being related to that forum, Introduce yourself forum being one of the best examples of this, usually being used to ask tech questions

I have experienced at least another 10 or so, more general examples of poor thread creating. Actually I believe we need a new thread just to post "Todays Anoyances" it would run hotter than the "Hot" (pun intended!) Mobile password thread, I feel.

I have to say I agree, I've passed and left a lot of threads when the spelling of the title is wrong or isn't a proper title, some bad titles like "Help" and even if they have written the title correctly if I read the post and see all the words like "iz", "dey" etc, then normally I just leave it.

You may think something is wrong with me being young I must be some of the last few who always has to have correct spelling I hate putting wrong spellings and incorrect grammar in my posts and always check them before I post on the thread. I for one would like to see a thread like kimsland has mentioned about Annoyances.

But also English is being dumbed down a lot, the tests we take here in the UK have got easier and easier. I looked at a Test Paper which was about 5 years older than the 1 I took and I would have struggled to get the same Grade I got, I might have been a Grade or two lower than what I actually got in my tests.