...to get really, really hacked off with people who use more than three dots!

[candyandyoga]

It's three dots only...not as many as you want to put.

Please people, use the point of ellipsis correctly! I can't stand all these extra dots.

[BrainzMeanzHeinz]

It's enough to drive you dotty.......

[Eilidhbelle]

Yep, YANBU. I hate more than one exclamation mark, it drives me up the pole.

[steppemum]

well.......
I quite like them!!!!!!!!!!!

[candyandyoga]

It makes people look THICK too...

Agree on the double exclamation mark too...

Stop!

[candyandyoga]

Why don't people use grammar properly? Do they want to appear thick?!

[Foosyerdoos]

!?

[ThisReallyIsNotSPNopeNotAtAll]

I know right, they is well thick....

Grammar is proper like well important init. Some peeps just don't get it!!!!!

[apostropheuse]

I really think you should have typed "I can't stand all those extra dots.

[Buzzardbird]

You're forgetting the people that use commas instead of full stops...

[lottiegarbanzo]

Punctuation ain't grammar. I'm always amazed at people who seem to care, who blithely confuse the two.

We were not taught about the ellipsis at school. I was very happy when I discovered it had a name.

[candyandyoga]

'These' is actually fine too actually.

[TrinityRhino]

those not these and some people don't realise what they are doing is incorrect

I get infuriated about certain grammar hiccups but I probably do other things wrong

I also can't stand pin number but probably say things that make other people stabby

[candyandyoga]

You're right, I should have said grammar AND punctuation!

Yes - people who use commas instead do come across as extra thick... ;-)

[TrinityRhino]

see I stand corrected

[ThisReallyIsNotSPNopeNotAtAll]

I honestly dont care. I dont get offended or annoyed by .... Or ???? Or ?!?!?!?! Or !!!!!! Or grammar

My grammar is shite but I'm here to type not be schooled on things like that. I'm here to learn about mooncups, blue waffle and Greggs

[candyandyoga]

No, 'these' is fine too.

[candyandyoga]

Blue waffle! Now, it's getting interesting!

[ThisReallyIsNotSPNopeNotAtAll]

Google it. Trust me it will cha ge your life for the better.

[NumTumDeDum]

WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE WHO SHOUT?

[JacqueslePeacock]

Yes, you said.

[ThisReallyIsNotSPNopeNotAtAll]

THATS FROWNED UPON BUT ONLY OFFENSIVE IF FOLLOWED BY!!!!!!!!! OR MAYBE?!?!?!

[lottiegarbanzo]

I do enjoy using the ?! combination sometimes. Feels wrong yet right.

[JacqueslePeacock]

!

[steppemum]

really, life is too short.

Formal writing, fine, be correct.

But in contexts like this, people use punctuation to express themselves, and often deliberately over/under use punctuation to add colour to their writing.

Who are you to say they shouldn't?

[reelingintheyears]

You are quite right,i will not do it again........................i sit corrected....