Basic punctuation

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Is it just me, or does anybody else find that so many MN posts are written without a full stop, that they need reading twice? I normally have to read them at least twice putting the full stop in to make sense of the post. My local Next Door group are worse again. I can barely understand some of the posts on there as they are littered with mistakes, yet devoid of punctuation. Somebody on ND also recently wrote Audacity as Ordasaty...

Touché. People should really re-read before posting.

You're not wrong! And sometimes people put that they can do something,, and it becomes obvious that they meant to write 'can't' do it.
I don't think that every text or FB post needs to be written like a Jane Austen novel. Different rules apply, people are in a rush, predictive text cocks up, dyslexia, etc. But yes, a few full stops and capital letters would be nice. After all, it's about communication - if your readers don't understand you then you've failed.

Bring back the semi-colon! (So many comma splices everywhere . . . . )

@ Pocketfullofdogtreats -

You’re not wrong about people writing that they “can” do something when context makes it clear that “can’t” is what they meant to write! I understand that a poster knows what they mean, but as you say, it’s all about communication - there are some posts I give up on because they’re just so garbled!

On Nextdoor, their, there and they're seem to be always written as there.

On my local Freegle today, someone is offering a 'Rotten cupboard'.

I'm trying to work out a rotten cupboard. Is it a piece of modern kitchen equipment that I wouldn't know about, even if it were correctly written?

Rattan? It's all I can come up with....

Slightly different but I saw 31th July on breakfast news. 31th! WTF! Who checks these days?

Apostrophes in plurals really wind me up too. Don't use the dyslexic argument either. It's basic knowledge. Cat. Cats. If you don't know how to use an apostrophe - don't!

I don't get the difference between a colon and a semi-colon and I'm educated - apparently - so I don't use them. A simple full stop will do!!!!!

All the spaces are driving me bonkers.

What do you mean ? This . Why are they doing it ?

Yeah, I've noticed that across the Internet. Sentences don't exist anymore!

I just saw someone say my Bras' on a thread, meaning her bras. 😞😞😞

@OrkneyGirl , colons are useful for introducing lists.
I use a semicolon if what follows is related to the part of the sentence before the semicolon.

The cupboard looked like it was seagrass; the person who advertised it probably meant rattan.

I don't understand the dyslexia argument for apostrophes but I don't know much about dyslexia.

When someone has learnt English as a second (or third, fourth, fifth...) language, it depends on how they learnt it. If they were taught it, their English tends to be good. If they learnt it from immersion, it tends to have errors like 'his' instead of 'he's' , 'could of' and so on.