Minimal Spelling and Grammar Options

[Saffy]

After a lot of talk and complaints I've been seeing, I believe we should instill a minimum level of quality regarding spelling and grammar. The most of us do use proper language on this forum, so I'm not going to say we're a cesspit of poor posts. However, there's a problem when understanding what someone has written is near impossible. I acknowledge typos occur. I'm certainly not suggesting we be Grammar Nazis either. But I and a few others are tired of seeing worthless, incomprehensible posts.

So please take the time to check your spelling and grammar before you post. Warnings may start going out to those who repeatedly offend spelling and grammar without any effort to improve. If your post looks like garbage, reads like garbage, then it will be treated as garbage.

Questions? Comments? I believe this action to be reasonable.

[Zen Clarke]

Sometimes I say *laughs* instead of LOL because I really DID laugh out loud. Sometimes, to me, writing 'haha' sounds like you're saying, "Ha. Ha. -_-" I dunno why, it just does. Yeah. I usually write OMG, because at best, I don't like writing 'oh my gawd.' It takes something extreme for me to say God instead of gawd. It just feels weird to me. I read LOL as 'el oh el' and OMG as 'oh em gee.' Brb and ttyl (which I only use when texting or IMing) I read as 'be right back' and 'tee tee why el' respectfully.

I try to use as best of grammer as I can, because I plan on being a writer. When I first joined the internet, it was atrocious (my computer doesn't have a spell check, sorry. :( ). Once I spelled 'embarrassed' 'imbarassed' or, actually, worse than that. It was scary bad. But writing for the past -- what, four years now? -- has gotten me to use much better punctuation. Like, I didn't used to use commas before saying someone's name (I'd say: Hey Crystal), or too (Me too!), and I'd use commas when they weren't needed ("What's that?," he asked.) I've gotten a whole lot better over the years. Occasionally, though, my spelling sucks....

EDIT: *eye twitches while reading through her post* Oh my gosh, my own examples of what I used to write is making me twitch! *resists urge to fix, as it would defeat the purpose*