to flinch when people use random capitals in sentences??

[GreenSepticStumpsleeves]

as in "I told her we were going to buy a Guinea Pig, but all she did was scream and ask for a Rabbit"

Stop it, all of you!! Stop it now!!

So it's guinea pig not Guinea pig?

actually I think it might be Guinea pig.
greeny does it annoy you when I put random capitals in my name? it really annoys hunker and you are similar rabid pedants.

Inverted commas when written or typed can be annoying - but it is vomit-inducing in the extreme when people demonstrate inverted commas by holding up both hands and wiggling the first two fingers on both hands, saying: I am "in love" or whatever. Heave.

yes HC, it makes me squint and purse my lips, every time!

Guinea pig was perhaps a bad choice... any apologists for Lunch Box, or Chicken Breasts? No?

When people do that finger-wiggling quotes thing I always want to kick them really hard in the crotch, while their hands are out of the way

Greensleeves - do you find the "kicking in the Crotch" does "The Trick"?

Well - stand still -

BE-DOOF!!

Any different?

Oi, piddle!! I can do my own crotch-kicking, thank you very much!

The mn grammar pedantry does sometimes get on my nerves. Sometimes I feed my baby and type posts with one hand. I can often see the odd mistake but post anyway as the mistake is not material. It is a shame if the flow of thought is destroyed for fear of being hauled across the coals by the mn grammar police. I think it probably prevents some people posting which is a shame. Sometimes the spelling of a post is not material to the value of the information contained in the post.

IME grammar pedantry police only tend to patrol the pedantry threads -- and if you are going to post on a pedantry thread you need to be extra careful to be above reproach, I think.

"rabid pedant", harpsi?!

Me?

Shurely shome mishtake?!

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Yes It prevents Me from Posting sometimes as i spend ages Doing a spell and grammar cheQue that the thread has Dyed bye the Time I get around 2 posting.

Sorry But U R Being unreasonable!!!

lemonaid - agreed. If it was a pedantry thread then the spelling and grammar would be material to the thread. If you want a quick cure for your baby's sickness and dia-reeeaahhh, it should not matter .

Caroline I'm sure the other posters wouldn't be referring to you or any other posters on here but RL irritations.

I suffer from digital dyslexia & often get my words muddled up & forget capitals & stuff. Annoys me only cos I don't see it when I preview & then blow me it's there when I post!

No, it's a pile of hogwash

If you make a mistake, bloody delete it and type it again, you lazy moo.

But I don't always SEE it that's the point Greeny!!

.....and sometimes I jsut can't be aresd

oh, unless you've got a baby exploding at both ends in your lap, of course. Which I'm sure all the txtspkers and hunnies and "what can I do with a Fish Finger and three Rusty Nails" brigade have, permanently

I recommended mn to a friend who is a writer. She was put off (or "Put Off") and said that she was confused about what it was for: was it to exhange ideas or was it to show off about how well you can type or write.

i WanT A raBBit..i might even "SCREAM" for a BUNNY

Previewing your messages is a bit like constantly looking in the mirror checking your hair is OK. Isn't it just a bit up your own arse?

Does that mean you MUST use capitals at the start of a sentence, hmm, greeny?

Or just not use them?

I'd just like to know if your pedantry is consistent, or it really is Just Other Things People Do That You Dont that irks you

Some German posters do it

I like it when that happens

To be completely honest, when I am typing something, I am not writing an essay, or studying English language.

I am having a C O N V E R S A T I O N.

Now, the internet being as it is, whereby you can't always detect the tone of a post, means that I punctuate it as appropriate for ALL to understand a bit better how I am actually saying it.

Which is why I use quotation marks, capitals, lots of ..... and !!!!!!

It expresses more clearly how I actually talk.

Since this is not a classroom it is a talkboard you cant stick your inconsistent pedantry up your Greensleeved Back Passage