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Posted: 8/19/2018 12:14:35 PM EDT

[#1]

Thes es fuked upp thang :to saa ,

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:16:39 PM EDT

[#2]

I'm sorry your grammer lost.

Posting casual shit on the web is serious business?

Some of you fucking guys, are so anal.

Take a deep breath and repeat after me, it's just the internet.

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:17:27 PM EDT

[#3]

OP

U aint the boss uv me!

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:21:45 PM EDT

[#4]

OP, the answer is obvious. Everybody here is just drunk all the time. Why don't you try spelling correctly when you're on a bender!

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:23:49 PM EDT

[#5]

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I have noticed a precipitous drop in grammar, syntax and punctuation here on ARF. Some from well established and intelligent posters.

Is it because many are posting from their phones with tiny screens and auto correct, or are posters just getting dumber?

It's maddening.

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1) Phones/text-talk
2) Kids/Millennials/post-Millennials
3) Adults trying to be "cool" like the Kids/Millennials/post-Millennials

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:25:51 PM EDT

[#6]

Dont know what op is talkin about.

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:28:20 PM EDT

[#7]

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I have noticed a precipitous drop in grammar, syntax and punctuation here on ARF.

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Interestingly, you used passive voice and omitted the Oxford comma in your first sentence.

It's like nails on a chalk board to me.

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:29:10 PM EDT

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So proud of a 26 dollar participation trophy

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It’s $24.

You’d know that if

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:30:05 PM EDT

[#9]

yOu Aint' mY Boss>

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:32:32 PM EDT

[#10]

I just do it because I know bad grammer spellin nd punctuashun causes some nerd to go into spaz mode.

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:32:59 PM EDT

[#11]

I learned English from BBC News.

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:42:01 PM EDT

[#12]

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I'm sorry your grammer lost.

Posting casual shit on the web is serious business?

Some of you fucking guys, are so anal.

Take a deep breath and repeat after me, it's just the internet.

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Train like you fight. Fight like you train.

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:44:13 PM EDT

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I have noticed a precipitous drop in grammar, syntax and punctuation here on ARF. Some from well established and intelligent posters.

Is it because many are posting from their phones with tiny screens and auto correct, or are posters just getting dumber?

It's maddening.

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Thank you OP.

It needed to be pointed out. It will, however, change nothing.
When a man has no pride in how he presents himself, it becomes easy to throw out smokescreens like blaming autocorrect, or keyboard size. Always blame one's tools for one's shoddy work. It's the ARFCOM way.

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:44:13 PM EDT

[#14]

WHaT wood we du with out grummer Nazis

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:45:06 PM EDT

[#15]

OP, instead of a period after your first sentence, you should have a semicolon (;) or a dash (-).

What goes around, comes around

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:45:20 PM EDT

[#16]

I spell gooder than some and betterer than you was thought. Get off my jock.

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:48:57 PM EDT

[#17]

I do it on porpouse just to piss the Nazis off.

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:49:47 PM EDT

[#18]

The people who do this are probably on their phones. They are probably being influenced by the 13er crowd as well.

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:50:16 PM EDT

[#19]

i never spealled shit write to benign wif.

Posted: 8/19/2018 12:54:17 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/19/2018 1:01:09 PM EDT

[#21]

This is the internet and this is a forum. This isn't English 202, or Composition 101. None of that shit matters.

If the designers of this forum were to go so far as to make it mandatory that all sentences have the proper structure before the reply was posted, people would be leaving this site in droves.

Posted: 8/19/2018 1:02:41 PM EDT

[#22]

How about the guys who don't know enough to add an "s" at the end of a word like LEFTISTS, COMMUNISTS, GUESTS, and other singular words that end in "st".
A classic example is "The leftist are taking over the country." Exactly which leftist are they talking about?

Posted: 8/19/2018 1:04:16 PM EDT

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Qualify your statement please. I am always willing to learn.

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OP grammar flame flames out in second sentence. lol.

Qualify your statement please. I am always willing to learn.

Your second sentence is a fragment.

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I have noticed a precipitous drop in grammar, syntax and punctuation here on ARF.

Interestingly, you used passive voice and omitted the Oxford comma in your first sentence.

It's like nails on a chalk board to me.

LoL. And I'm sure OP proofread it 25 times before posting, to make sure it was absolutely perfect.

Posted: 8/19/2018 1:05:38 PM EDT

[#24]

I usually type on my phone, which often makes me look drunk. I do not drink.

Posted: 8/19/2018 1:07:50 PM EDT

[#25]

Proper title should read, There's a massive decline in grammar and punctuation on ARfcom.

Posted: 8/19/2018 1:21:27 PM EDT

[#26]

The pro-gun vote of someone who makes spelling errors is just as valuable as some pompous cunt, and I'd prefer not to drive them off, or shame them into silence.

Posted: 8/19/2018 2:21:10 PM EDT

[#27]

Does it really matter? If it's there or they'er or to , too. The idea of writing is to get a point across. Spelling, punctuation, and grammar are not important. Flame away.

Posted: 8/19/2018 2:24:34 PM EDT

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Does it really matter? If it's there or they'er or to , too. The idea of writing is to get a point across. Spelling, punctuation, and grammar are not important. Flame away.

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Posted: 8/19/2018 2:26:25 PM EDT

[#29]

Is it "in grammar and punctuation" or "of grammar and punctuation"?

Eta like arfcom, you chose both.

Posted: 8/19/2018 2:27:34 PM EDT

[#30]

Just a lot of hillbillies with internet access since the president promised to get internet out to rural areas that don't have internet access.

Posted: 8/19/2018 2:27:34 PM EDT

[#31]

Because when we don’t punctuate it means we don’t know grammar and punctuation right for when we communicate on social media in a format like this and be aware of when to pause like a comma or get get run on sentences that are like you know harder to read without knowing this.

Posted: 8/19/2018 2:28:41 PM EDT

[#32]

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OP grammar flame flames out in second sentence. lol.

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A man's gotta know his limitations.

Posted: 8/19/2018 2:29:52 PM EDT

[#33]

Why does it matter? Most people here don't read too good noway.

Posted: 8/19/2018 2:33:22 PM EDT

[#34]

I got lazy and my eyes got old.

Please forgive me old great grammar Nazis!!!

Posted: 8/19/2018 2:34:24 PM EDT

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28650 posts and no membership OP?

Really?

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Hey them grammar nazi jobs just don't pay what they used to:

Posted: 8/19/2018 2:41:52 PM EDT

[#36]

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Thank you OP.

It needed to be pointed out. It will, however, change nothing.
When a man has no pride in how he presents himself, it becomes easy to throw out smokescreens like blaming autocorrect, or keyboard size. Always blame one's tools for one's shoddy work. It's the ARFCOM way.

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Unfortunately for all of us, it's now the American way. We can no longer have any standards because the inferior folks are not allowed to be judged.

Posted: 8/19/2018 2:41:54 PM EDT

[#37]

I have two excuses. I have fat fingers and the keys are tiny and English is not my first language, and every English teacher told me so.

Posted: 8/19/2018 2:43:47 PM EDT

[#38]

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PIMF--Preview Is My Friend. Go back and proofread what you just wrote before you hit the submit button. It's not hard, people.

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That's what she said.

Posted: 8/19/2018 2:45:36 PM EDT

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Does it really matter? If it's there or they'er or to , too. The idea of writing is to get a point across. Spelling, punctuation, and grammar are not important. Flame away.

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Ambiguity invites further ambiguity. Eventually, the “well, you know what I’m trying to say,” excuse won’t work. Since when was it the burden of the reader to decipher your gibberish, anyway?

Posted: 8/19/2018 2:46:29 PM EDT

[#40]

don't tell me what to do bro, this is the internet lighten up

Posted: 8/19/2018 2:50:32 PM EDT

[#41]

No, but I have noticed a significant uptick in the number of frustrated English teachers lately.

Posted: 8/19/2018 2:51:19 PM EDT

[#42]

My vote is phoned, auto correct is also a pain in the ass

Posted: 8/19/2018 2:53:15 PM EDT

[#43]

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No shit! Some can’t even add a “I” on the beginning of a sentence.

Come on, guys. A sentence requires a noun AND a verb.

Stop being so fucking lazy.

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"At the beginning of a sentence", rather than "on the beginning of a sentence", is a better use of the language...imo.

Posted: 8/19/2018 2:57:15 PM EDT

[#44]

your not my supervisor

Posted: 8/19/2018 3:00:24 PM EDT

[#45]

Pic of OP lectring GD a about grammr.

Posted: 8/19/2018 3:01:39 PM EDT

[#46]

people dont think GD be like it is

but it do

The OP could use a lesson or two...

Posted: 8/19/2018 3:18:37 PM EDT

[#47]

Who cares

Posted: 8/19/2018 3:26:14 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/19/2018 3:27:42 PM EDT

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Autocorrect has a lot to do with it, I reckon.

It’s shit software with shit human engineering. Give me some squiggles to let me know something looks funny.

Don’t change my type of “disturbance” from “disrtibnce” to “did stir Bin Laden.”

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This, plus working from a small phone doing entertainment, informal writing. Why people get so wound up is beyond me.