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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marius Delphus" data-source="post: 2760817" data-attributes="member: 447">If you don't type a post in which you can make yourself understood, it doesn't matter how creative, innovative, intelligent, or whatever you are; your ideas won't flow into other people's minds, and your incisive, insightful, mind-expanding points will be ignored (or worse, misunderstood). [EDIT: It's that way with questions too. Nobody can helpfully answer a query they don't comprehend.] To me, that's just the way it is in a medium where typed words are your only way of communicating.So I'm with Henry. I try never to post merely to point out someone else's typing, spelling, grammar, usage, punctuation, or other mistakes of written English (though I seem to recall mentioning once or twice in the distant past that a particular post was hard to understand). Here on a message board, it's less about using correct English (American, British, International, whatever), per se, than it is about being legible. Turns out part of my *job* is correcting, editing, and retooling people's writing, so I'm not about to spend much effort on it during "me time" (unless that's what I feel like doing, as with the personal-use-only rules manual I'm compiling for the Pirates "constructible" game... I mean, I realize it's hard to get a complete strategy game on two sides of a 6x9 piece of paper, I understand that, but REALLY!).Ahem, I mean, sure I groan when I see "per say" or "wa la" for "per se" or "voila" (or the latest head-exploder: "vice" for "versus"... don't get me started)... et cetera... but that doesn't mean I take the opportunity to rub my hands gleefully and prepare an inflammatory response; that's going too far, I think. Quite the contrary: I ignore it and move on. If the rest of the post is incomprehensible, I ignore the entire thing. It may be a failing of mine, but I think it's a common one: if it doesn't look worth the effort, I tend not to spend any....</blockquote>

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