AIBU to mourn the loss of punctuation and capital letters on MN?

[DarrellRivers]

The world is continuing to go to hell in a handcart.

Come on I think its a bit old fashioned to think that every person is sitting at a little desk with a keyboard in front of them,concentrating hard on what they are doing. 90% of the time I'm using the internet on my iphone. I might be sitting waiting on the school bus, checking it between meetings, or having a quick look while I'm drying my hair. Thats the way people do things, everyones multi tasking. I'm sure when its really needed we can all punctuate.

fartingFran.....I love your name. I once told someone they were as predictable as a fart in a baked-been factory. .....no it was not HMQ

I suppose it's because I'm probably one of the older mums on here, (or maybe because I was born a pedant) but I do agree with the OP.
I automatically start sentences with capital letters and end them with a full stop, whether I'm using a pen, a keyboard or a phone.
If they're not there it just really jars with me.

(But I'm only mentioning it because someone else raised the issue...)

If i didn't correct my posts, noone would be able to understans them (i only had to correct 2 things in that sentence, then i messed it up by correcting about 10 in this one)
(make that 11)
(and another one)

(gah!)

Just make sure you read all of my wonderful posts. I am a veritable stickler!

arse

I'm with Nancy66 on whilst.

But at least though it makes you sound archaic I suppose it's not wrong though it should be

Worse is myself, yourself, themselves for me, you and them.

I used to work with someone who'd announce: 'I feel myself, personally...' before each pompous observation. At least he wasn't asking anyone else to feel him

Oh, and people who use I when they mean to say me.

Not that fussed about capitals in nicknames...

Oh, and however was banned where I used to work, but I don't know why. However, I use it a lot in writing but am always careful to feel ashamed of my ignorance.

Manhood was compulsory when writing about penises (or is that penii? If we'd have been allowed to use the word I'd know). Use of the term willy used to earn a severe rebuke that said more about the man in question's sense of proportion than anything else.

I once wrote 'mighty hunk of lustmeat' and he merely changed it without comment. I often used to wonder about his homelife.

I always try to give those posters the benefit of the doubt and assume they are typing on a smartphone or some such.

The thought that they might be on PCs with actual keyboards and still manage to produce lowercase typo'ed up to the eyeballs posts is too much for me to contemplate.

I really dont give a hoot, I'm the worlds worst at my English writing, but honestly who gives a hoot, as long as its readable and not all ehdbjwkebyewbdxjhbxewdbewh,Ijbdnewhjdbjasbx hevdhsbx jakbxhscvx or txt spk innit babeez

I don't care.

It might be off topic but I'm on a roll now about insane rules.

A women's magazine I worked for had a supplement about sex that had to be sealed even though it was pretty tame.

The person with the job of pulling all this together was told at the last minute that she couldn't use the word 'erection' as the male editor thought it unseemly in a publication for ladies. He didn't tell her this himself because that would be awkward, but let it be known through a female underling. He might have passed her a note.

My colleague wondered what euphemism to substitute for the liberal sprinklings of erections in her piece.

The message came back: 'sexy feelings'. Therefore she wrote the advice: 'your husband may wake up with sexy feelings. This is a physiological response and nothing to do with you.'

This was in the '90s. 1990s.

limitedperiodonly - what about oral sex?
that was always 'pleasuring' in the publications I worked for.

H

Nancy66 'pleasuring' in publications aimed at ladies and 'a sex act' in papers aimed at the mid-to-lower classes and the Telegraph.

Starting newsroom discussions about the wide range of pleasurable sexual acts available would get you marked down as what used to be known in the News of the World as a nympho.

I think puncuation and spelling matters in some arenas but not so much on mumsnet. It should be, and is, a mixed ability thing here.

There has been research which shows people can understand all sorts of
omissions and slang etc.

I will try you with a bit of garbled scouse.

The quality of Mersey is not strained, wack, it drips all over the piggin waterfront....

Shakespeare would recognise that pronto; and contact his solicitor.

talking of which Limited. There is a prominent picture of Clarkson on todays DT front page.

i wonder what that could be doing there Scousy.

Btw while watching the ManU/Chelsea match with DH yesterday I was jolted out of my boredom when a 20ft banner was suddenly unfurled in the crowd. Imagine my disappointment when it turned out to be a benign message about ManU.

Ryan Giggs played a blinder yesterday, as the presenters kept pointing out.

At least I take it to have been benign, because that's what the presenters said. It didn't stay on screen long enough for me to read it.