For the love of God there is no such word as "alot"!

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Or "abit" or "infact" or "inbetween". No, really. They're not words.

And please stop putting random spaces before punctuation. (Unless you're writing in French, in which case carry on.)

And "your" is not an abbreviation for "you are".

(Sorry - I'm probably BU, it's just a forum, no digs meant at anyone who's dyslexic or who has other learning difficulties, etc., etc. And I'm sure my grammar isn't perfect, and I certainly shouldn't begin sentences with a preposition.)

But, please!

And I'm sure my grammar isn't perfect

Your write, it isn't.

I agree with the others, infact it feels like you have just started learning your coordinating conjunctions as you are using them to start sentences alot.

I hate this too - especially in emails. I sometimes correct them when replying.

Hi OP not wishing to be pedantic either, but infact you began you're sentences with coordinating conjunctions. Their not prepositions. I would of expected someone with fabulous grammer like your's too of used them inbetween independent clauses instead.

Hope that helps you alot.

What's the point? Your delivery, OP, is supercilious and hectoring. Posters will post the way they do without recourse to you and your unsolicited 'teaching'.

You will though, make people feel like shit. I guess that was the plan?

Infact this thread is alot of bull

So much so that you've already contributed six times.

I do see 'alot' but not the other examples. Your for you're is common but I think many errors are because people do not proofread their posts and some things slip through.
Endless sentences lacking any punctuation are also frustrating - they can become nonsensical.

It matters.

Charles the first walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off.

Versus

Charles the first walked and talked. Half an hour after, his head was cut off.

Makes a massive difference

Its to show how ridiculous this thread is and im piss taking.

Wearywithteens, I've not see any posters say that spelling and punctuation isn't important. The only posters I see talking about it at all are the ones who start threads like this - and the ones who jump in to pat their backs... and tell people to 'google rules and learn them'.

I really dislike these threads.

Makes a massive difference

Your example is absolutely nothing like the OP's gripe.

Hi OP not wishing to be pedantic either, but infact you began you're sentences with coordinating conjunctions.

Yes, you're quite right, I meant conjunctions.

The same people who say that alot and abit are ok and evolving are probably the same apologists for all SPAG issues.

Is pedants corner closed today?

Your delivery, OP, is supercilious and hectoring.

Much the same as your favoured style of posting, then.

You will though, make people feel like shit. I guess that was the plan?

No, not at all.

And "your" is not an abbreviation for "you are" Saw an advert recently beginning "If your looking for high quality tutoring ..."

Saw an advert recently beginning "If your looking for high quality tutoring ..."

Did it continue, "...then look elsewhere"?

@tinnitusagain

I remember our English teacher in year 8 getting worked up about "alot".

He said none of us wrote "afew" or why did we write "alot"?

I remember it every time I write "alot", and I write "alot" alot.

Perhaps so, OP, but I don't post specifically to put other people down which is what you and your ilk are doing.

This is not language evolving, it's putting two words together and creating meaningless made up words.

Being able to write coherent sentences is important. It's one of the ways we communicateI.

Tinnitusagain's post is interesting because the, deliberate, mistakes render a lot of it meaningless and therefore make it harder to follow the writer's meaning.

It isn't important on a social networking site but for something important, such as a job application, it could be the difference between getting an interview and your application being thrown in the bin before the reader gets beyond the word 'alot' or some other similarly made up words.

The fact that so many people write 'alot', abit and so on, probably means that many actually have no idea that they aren't actually words.

This is not language evolving, it's putting two words together and creating meaningless made up words

I think this is the direction the English language is evolving in, perhaps under the influence of textspeak (itself a compound word). I often see "instore" as one word too, pretty sure it was always two words 10 years ago. There will be other examples too but that's just off the top of my head. "Nevermind" is another:
grammarist.com/spelling/never-mind-vs-nevermind/
"Spell checkers will flag nevermind, but it is used once for every two times never mind is used, which means it’s pretty popular. It is only a matter of time before it is added to the dictionary as an official listing."

And spellcheck vs spell check is itself another!

Being able to write coherent sentences is important.

Yes because no one would know what you're talking about if you wrote alot instead of a lot ................

conjunctions conjunctions.... so op you admit you made a mistake?!?

tut tut... you shall be punished!! join the end of the line go on... alot of your nonsense already