Why can people not use punctuation?!?!?!

[Galethorn]

The horse blinked.

"Dude!"

He blinked again.

"I didn't know you could talk!"

 

[Fenris]

This is driving me crazy.....the amount of people refusing to put quotes around speech is staggering. Yet they are the same people who insist on using color or bold for speech.......

Probably because they can't. You can only put quotation marks around speech.

 

[Piratecat]

Probably because they can't. You can only put quotation marks around speech.

Wrong. You can put quotes around speech. To wit:

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. ~ Mark Twain
speech
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde​

- Pedantcat

 

[Harmon]

This is driving me crazy.....the amount of people refusing to put quotes around speech is staggering. Yet they are the same people who insist on using color or bold for speech.......

Easy answer- I don't speak English, I am an American.

Truest of answers- barely got out of high school, and was never taught how to use punctuation.

I was the quiet kid in the back of the class that was just trying to survive an abusive family life, look for what little positive attention I could get, and game so that I could forget who and what I was for just a little while. Spelling, reading, writing, math skills, didn't seem all that important. I figure that there are a lot of people out there like that, now we are the majority and it brings the rest of the world down. For that I apologize- I am trying to further my education, but its a slow process and I ante all that smart.

 

[Dog Moon]

I don't know why, but reading this makes me want to read Flowers for Algernon.

 

[Fenris]

Wrong. You can put quotes around speech. To wit:
- Pedantcat

Yes you quoted, but you did not use quotation, you merely attributed the quote to it's author.

 

[WmRAllen67]

Somehow, all I can think of is Victor Borge's comedy routine...

I just wish I could find the whole thing on the net.

http://www.kor.dk/borge/puncsyst.ram

 

[Marius Delphus]

Yes you quoted, but you did not use quotation, you merely attributed the quote to it's author.

"Quote" is increasingly accepted as a standard synonym for "quotation" in American English.

So I figured that was just Pedant^H^H^H^H^H^HPiratecat making a funny.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Somehow, all I can think of is Victor Borge's comedy routine...

I just wish I could find the whole thing on the net.

Try here.

-Hyp.

 

[Dirigible]

Why can people not use punctuation?!?!?!

Because you're bogarting them all, mang.