Is this thread going to contain too much pedantry

[swee'pea99]

Indeed. If one cannot play with one's words when one is making a play on words, then we might as well abandon the entire system and return to smoke signals and hieroglyphs.

My apologies...hadn't followed the thread properly, fell foul of my taste for low-hanging fruit...

 

[Archie_tect]

Tell you what, next time you see something that you anticipate will cause me to say it, pm me a better fresh line.

I'd better not, there's probably a daily limit on private messages.

 

[just jim]

I've just gone into pendant mode.

 

[gbb]

the ones i find most annoying are the very long unpunctuated posts u now the ones where there are no capitals no commas no fullstops no nuffink and go on and on with out a break some of them are clearly made up of distinct sentences some are not it is very hard to tell sometimes what is being said or meant even a paragraph or two might help but no there arent even those to break up the long block of text i now that it is sometimes difficult posting on a phone but when i post on a phone the only thing i cant do are the smilies i dont now the codes to but there is no excuz i found it really trying when i woz teaching and had to mark essays written like this as especially with technical stuff it can be very confusing i now this is a cycling forum and not an english lesson but still there is little excuz for it quite often i see a post like this and i don 't even bother to read it as it is too difficult to scan or work out what is being said quickly enough to see if it is of interest to me maybe someone can explain why it happens perhaps google translate should have a section or languge for translating it into something that is properly readable and makes sense to the rest of us the occasional typo isn't a problem but the regular spelling faults can change the way a sentence reads and so it is important to get that right where ever possible even by edits and corrections after the event more people should do that and so it will be easier for the rest of us

I felt my inner anger welling up just reading that

 

[Archie_tect]

NT- you're not trying.