Re: keep having same problems

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LabRat wrote:

Gordon voiced his/her/it's humble opinion in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support on Tue 28 Nov 2006
10:37:38a:

nass wrote:


May His/Her Langua not Englisa,

The English would have been perfect, if it had had punctuation and
capitalisation. I suspect just lazy.

So who are you? The Grammer Nazi?


As far as I'm concerned, it has nothing to do with being a "Grammar Nazi." I
really don't care whether the grammar, spelling, usage, or anything else in
a question is perfect. But I do care whether I can understand his message
without jumping through hoops. And if the person asking the question is
smart, he too will care whether his message is intelligible.

I have a limited amount of time that I can spend here helping people, and if
the poster has been so lazy with respect to using punctuation and
capitalization that the message is difficult or impossible to understand, or
requires extra effort on my part to decipher it, I just pass it by and go on
to the next question.

I'm not the only one here who feels that way, so anybody who doesn't take
the trouble to make his questions as easily understood as possible, by using
appropriate spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and usage (or at
least as good as he's capable of--I *will* make an extra effort for someone
whose first language obviously isn't English), might not get the help he's
looking for and does himself a real disservice. He doesn't hurt me by
writing this way; he hurts himself.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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