Punctuation is your friend

[patience0830]

Texting has a place in this. My kids were sent to private school and they both graduated. They know and understand the structure of a sentence.
Since texting has become the norm over actually speaking to someone this has all went into the toilet.
I will say my use of punctuation has slipped over the years. I mis-use it more these days like.............???????

Has all went? Really?



Troll.

 

[JettaKnight]

Christmas is over. Time to take the decorum down.

And my pants?

 

[BugI02]

... Its called an [STRIKE]ellipses[/STRIKE] ellipsis. Three dots. (sometimes 4 but apparently only in certain legal documents) Not five. Not thirteen. Three. Spaces before/after are optional so I'll let that slide.

FTFY

 

[nakinate]

FTFY

Correct! Singular is ellipsis. Plural is ellipses.

 

[historian]

And my pants?

They were up to begin with?

 

[historian]

... Its called an ellipses. Three dots. (sometimes 4 but apparently only in certain legal documents) Not five. Not thirteen. Three. Spaces before/after are optional so I'll let that slide.

They are used to truncate worthless information (basically, all of INGO could be contained within a set), but if they are at the end of a sentence they have four. If they are internal in the sentence they have three.

 

[BugI02]

Punctuation counts. If you are sloppy in little things, it is unlikely you suddenly get better on the big things. I don't runaway in horror when someone prattles on without the benefit of basic rules of English, but it doesn't help their "content."

I do tend to get annoyed about "discreet" and "discrete". When expressing a concept that is so common and central to the gun-carrying community, we should really use the correct one.

runaway - a person who has run away, especially from their family or an institution.

run away - to leave quickly in order to avoid or escape something