punctuation

I know it's bad form to complain to much about punctuation, spelling etc. on an Internet message board, but it seems to me there has been a drop-off lately on some pretty basic conventions on ISF. There are some comments I have to read twice to figure out what they are saying. Some of it is...

A teacher was describing how she wanted our reports to be formatted, font, line spacing etc. and one of the students asked, "Do you want punctuation or the new standard without punctuation?" I thought the guy was nuts until the teacher answered him as though he was talking sense. As a result...

I hope this is the right place for this. It's not really a JREF-related question, but I figure there's got to be someone around here that knows the answer: I have a simple question about punctuation marks and quotations. I'm working with a document in which terms like true and false as well...

The government of Turkey has handed out fines to people who had the audacity to illegally use the letters Q and W at a Kurdish New Year's Celebration. On the one hand, this is part of a concerted drive against the human rights of Kurds, and the EU is properly all up in arms about it. On the...