So ashamed

[heightsyankee]

I often type without using caps. I saw how you guys hated on BananaHammock for doing the same and I am ashamed.

I do promise to never say "cuz."

Can we still be friends?

[blindyswife]

I admit to getting lazy about capitalization when on my laptop... I blame my iPad, which I use most often, because it capitlizes things for me. I will be ashamed with you.

[Deleted]

It actually doesn't always bother me. But I've never noticed that poster before today. So it's just rich that her first posts are in education threads and are terribly written.

[wawa]

I have come to grips with the fact that if I'm going to get any actual work done at work, i can't proof my posts. And the shitty old version of IE on my computer here doesn't support a spellcheck.

I'm sure some people judge my constant typos, blatent misspellings and comma splices. I hope not too much though.

[Deleted]

May 18, 2012 14:47:14 GMT -5 wawa said:

I'm sure some people judge my constant typos, blatent misspellings and comma splices. I hope not too much though.

Now this is just blatantly hilarious!

[heightsyankee]

I also love commas, and ellipses...

[Deleted]

May 18, 2012 14:40:36 GMT -5 @angryharpy said:

It actually doesn't always bother me. But I've never noticed that poster before today. So it's just rich that her first posts are in education threads and are terribly written.

This, so much this.

Also, I don't usually notice errors here and there. I promise I've never looked at the posts of most regulars and thought, well shitfuck, they suck.

But if you're waxing poetic about how education is meh, only kind of important while failing to capitalize at all, I'm gonna point and laugh.

[earlgreyhot]

The red squiggly like is my spellcheck, I don't really proofread, and probably use commas completely wrong. I do try, but not that hard.

[wawa]

May 18, 2012 14:48:09 GMT -5 @angryharpy said:

May 18, 2012 14:47:14 GMT -5 wawa said:

I'm sure some people judge my constant typos, blatent misspellings and comma splices. I hope not too much though.

Now this is just blatantly hilarious!

damn. see! I can't spell. I've been mocked for this my entire life. I was always the first kid out in the spelling bee. I'm just BAD at it. No matter how much my mom drilled me, I'm awful at spelling. I've been using my baby sister as a walking spellcheck since she was 7 and I was 12.

Sad/funny story - There is a note on the wall in our breakroom that says, "If you take the last of the coffee, make another pot for your fellow colleagues."
The phrase fellow colleagues bothers me. It's redundant. I reeeeally wanted to go all passiveaggressivenotes.com and leave a comment in red pen, but I wasn't sure how to spell redundant. So I couldn't.

[heightsyankee]

[wawa]

constant source of sadness i tell you

[Melissa W.]

Eh.. I still like you, wawa.

[beebeeeater]

The "w" on my keyboard is broken so in order to get a w, I have to keep one copied, I just "ctrl+v" every time I need to type it. I know this is stupid. But also, it means that I never have a capital w on hand unless I go find one to copy and paste. I either find a way to start the sentence with a word that begins with a different letter, or I use a lowercase w and it makes me NUTS.

[blindyswife]

May 18, 2012 15:05:07 GMT -5 beebeeeater said:

The "w" on my keyboard is broken so in order to get a w, I have to keep one copied, I just "ctrl+v" every time I need to type it. I know this is stupid. But also, it means that I never have a capital w on hand unless I go find one to copy and paste. I either find a way to start the sentence with a word that begins with a different letter, or I use a lowercase w and it makes me NUTS.

haha I am dying! Love this!

I'm lazy enough that I would be more likely to use two V's side by side.

vv= lower case w and VV upercase W

[secretlyevil]

When I type one-handed, no caps.

[basilosaurus]

Lowercase in short replies doesn't bother me, but it is actually hard to read in such long paragraphs.

I'll admit a little part of me judges misspellings, like priviledge or misusing your, but if someone has proven themselves to be otherwise intelligent, I barely notice.

If you're new on here, and your first posts are barely intelligible combined with asinine views? Chances are I'm going to think you're dumb.

[basilosaurus]

It doesn't matter how fast you type if no one can understand what you're saying. Speed of reading matters, too.

I think I'll take my 100wpm with proper punctuation, thank you.

[msmerymac]

Stuff here and there doesn't bother me. My company has a internal database/social network type thing. I once left a message for a coworker on her "wall" and used something like unaccurate vs. inaccurate.

The best part is that, technically, I'm responsible for all of the copy at my company. Which usually means proofreading and copy editing, but sometimes means writing it too. I is smart.

No, really, though, I obviously can't be bothered to make sure every little thing I write is completely perfect. Everyone here can communicate effectively, so I won't make fun of you.

I did just read a book where every other chapter did not use capital letters. In this age of the internet, it didn't bother me as much as I thought. But it was still slightly bothersome.

[Deleted]

I really can't fathom anyone who doesn't capitalized I when used in the first person. That gets an automatic write off as dumb dingydongdummydumdum.

You know, it would take me less time to use the bathroom if I skipped wiping my ass. But I don't recommend it.

[heightsyankee]

May 18, 2012 17:02:57 GMT -5 @habbsies said:

I really can't fathom anyone who doesn't capitalized I when used in the first person. That gets an automatic write off as dumb dingydongdummydumdum.

You know, it would take me less time to use the bathroom if I skipped wiping my ass. But I don't recommend it.

Random side note. I think I have been in GBCN too much recently. I just tossed my dog out the door and said "get out there, hot mess heifer."

[secretlyevil]

In all serious though since I write/edit for a living I tend to pay some attention but I have been known to be very lax and then I also get super anal. It just depends on my mood. If everyone was perfect, we wouldn't have gems like morAn.

[emilyj]

If no one here is going to hold me to the perfect standard of grammar, punctuation and spelling, than I'm not going to hold anyone here to it either. We're all busy, and if you misspell a word I'm not going to judge you. Now with the number of people using apps, occasional non-caps are probably going to creep in more.

For the most part though, this board generally 'speaks' in intelligent, well-thought out sentences. And I appreciate that.

But if you type in text speak, I'm going to judge the hell out of you.

[teflep]

Caps or not doesn't bother me, but not knowing the correct word (lose or loose) drives me baaaatty.

[AllieHound]

I'm usually responding from my phone, so I try to catch the obvious autocorrect issues and major misspellings, but if Ive typed a long reply and dropped a capital or an apostrophe, I'm just too lazy to go back to fix it. I will fix it when I'm on the laolptop though

[laurenpetro]

i don't use caps. i'm lazy. this is not a surprise.

[sporky]

May 18, 2012 21:18:56 GMT -5 laurenpetro said:

i don't use caps. i'm lazy. this is not a surprise.

this is me as well.

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

No caps is not as big of an issue for me. What generally turns me off against what someone writes is letter or number substitutions, or text speak. I hate "u" for you, 4 instead of for...that sort of thing. Unless you are Prince or the artist formerly known as Prince or whateverthefuck he goes by now, you are not permitted to do such things.

[basilosaurus]

May 18, 2012 21:18:56 GMT -5 laurenpetro said:

i don't use caps. i'm lazy. this is not a surprise.

This doesn't bother me. Long paragraphs with no caps, however, are awful.

[heightsyankee]

OK, so what about "bc" for because? I don't consider that text speak. I use it a lot and have always thought of it as internet short hand.

[ringstrue]

I cnt spel wrth crap and I'am stil herre!1

I think people who are just stupid all around get picked over for every little thing. I also think that when you are explaining your side during an argument, you should strive to write better than just casual "speak."