Norm, I think "coma" should be "comma". :o) Isn't all this fun? :o) 'Course I think I AM going into a coma over all this.
Ed Janssen mailto:ejans...@chipsnet.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norm Seel" <norman.s...@verizon.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 4:40 AM Subject: Re: KR>capitalization and punctuation > "day, and got several"- I don't believe there should be a coma after day, > unless the sentence reads "and I got". It is probably time for me to get > flamed. Norm > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> > To: "KR builders and pilots" <kr...@mylist.net> > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 8:07 PM > Subject: KR>capitalization and punctuation > > > > NetHeads, > > > > I made a fairly snide remark about keyboards and periods the other day, > and > > got several comments on it. Most thought it was long overdue, and quite > > appropriate, but one said I'd been way too hard on the guy, that I must be > > some kind of frustrated English teacher, and he basically thought I was > out > > of line for "flaming" him. > > > > I understand that some people just can't spell. Engineers are famous for > > that. But I simply can't believe that there are people who can't grasp > the > > concept capitalizing the first word of a sentence, and putting a period at > > the end of a sentence. If you can read, surely you can manage these two > > feats. But I'll take his word for it and offer the following advice for > > those who didn't learn the basics in second grade: > > > > Sentences are groups of words that express a concept. The beginning of > each > > new sentence has a "capital" letter. That means that you hit the "shift" > > key on your keyboard right before and during striking the key that will be > > the first word of your sentence, and you'll end up with a large "capital" > > letter beginning your sentence. The other thing to grasp is that when > your > > concept (sentence) ends, you put a period, or dot (located near the lower > > right corner of your keyboard). These two visual queues greatly > facilitate > > (help) the reader to understand what it is you're trying to say. > > > > However, I suspect that it is not ignorance, but pure laziness and > > inconsideration that leads to this behavior. The writer is too lazy to > > bother spending the extra few seconds it takes to capitalize words and end > > sentences with periods. He saves a few seconds on the message, and then > > causes four hundred readers to scratch their heads and read the paragraph > > four times to decipher their code. Often, the reader walks away having > no > > idea what the writer was trying to say, or deciding that whatever it was, > it > > was probably senseless anyway. If you add up all the time that was wasted > > trying to read these posts, you end up with at least an hour of wasted KR > > productivity, all so some inconsiderate dolt could save a few seconds > > pecking out a message. It all boils down to pure inconsideration, in my > > humble opinion, and ignoring the other "rules" of this list are right up > > there with it. > > > > Some day I'm going to snap, and start throwing people off the list for > > refusing to delete the previous five posts to which they are replying. > > Again, pure inconsideration for the other members of the list. I'm not > far > > from giving up here... > > > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL > > N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > > see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html >
