New "No Punctuation" Standard?

Zep said:
Bush is going Great!

Bush is going? Great!

Just one change...
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Context is everything. I would hope that anyone who posted that would put in something more to justify their opinion. Then even if the question mark is wrong you can work out what was meant. For example

President Bush is going? Great! All America should be supporting President Bush.

President Bush is going Great! Then maybe the next President will fix up the mess created by President Bush.
 
I recall one from Reader's Digest.

"Women without man is nothing."

Which said that women would punctuate it thusly:

"Women! Without, man is nothing."

Whilst the men would have all sorts of punctuation.

I was a bit skeptical of that myself - but it serves the topic well.
 
" Mr Speaker,
I said the honourable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honourable member may place the punctuation where he pleases."

Attributed to Richard Brinsley Sheridan, on being asked by the Speaker to apologize for calling a fellow MP a liar.
 
I've never heard of it but I swear to Good, if one more student turns in a thesis paper that has "your" when they mean "you're", "were" when they mean "we're", "well" when they mean "we'll", etc... You're gonna see me on CNN.:mad:
 
Redtail said:
I've never heard of it but I swear to Good, if one more student turns in a thesis paper that has "your" when they mean "you're", "were" when they mean "we're", "well" when they mean "we'll", etc... You're gonna see me on CNN.:mad:
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New to the profession, are we?

If those errors make you ballistic, you should seriously consider changing careers.

(Personally, I expected errors like that when I started teaching at a state university. What I didn't expect were students, born and raised in the US, products of American schools, who did not know to add -ed to verbs to make them past tense. I still have no clue how they graduated high school and actually made it into college.)
 
Piggy said:
New to the profession, are we?

If those errors make you ballistic, you should seriously consider changing careers.

(Personally, I expected errors like that when I started teaching at a state university. What I didn't expect were students, born and raised in the US, products of American schools, who did not know to add -ed to verbs to make them past tense. I still have no clue how they graduated high school and actually made it into college.)
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I'm three years in. (And I have to admit that my intentions were to just have a job while my fiancee is in gradschool but I've found I actually like it most of the time.) It's just that the first day of class I tell them don't do it but it seems they can't help it.

(Granted my favorite remains the girl who turned in here final paper with the website info of the site she downloaded it from still at the top of the page. I got called on the carpet by the Dean on that one. Seems you can tell a student "You are too stupid to be here." When her parents have donated a lot of money to the school.)

ETA: (Well until one has tenure.)
 
Redtail said:
(Granted my favourite remains the girl who turned in here final paper with the website info of the site she downloaded it from still at the top of the page. I got called on the carpet by the Dean on that one. Seems you can tell a student "You are too stupid to be here." When her parents have donated a lot of money to the school.)

ETA: (Well until one has tenure.)
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What! After one has tenure you canNOT tell a student "You are too stupid to be here." ? But it is OK to say so BEFORE one has tenure? Please explain this. I am very confused.
 
I think he meant "can't," as in "seems you can't tell..."
 
Please you must excuse me. I am drunk.

Yes I know what he meant. As I said in post 42 above context is everything. But to criticise other people for getting the grammar slightly wrong then saying the wrong thing yourself...< censored ><CENSORED> <CENSORED>.

I think people should be more tolerant of minor errors. Lest you make an error yourself.
 
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Sounds like when I recently emailed a student here in Japan (where they do not space between words either) that I did not think she was ready for graduate study in the United States:

"But if you are interesting in attending a language program first, I would be willing to write you a recommendation."

Yeah. I was drinking at the time. But I'm still an idiot.
 
Crowbot said:
We should name the punctuationless standard "myspace"!
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Oh, you'll be sorry in twenty years when we're all speaking "Myspace Standard English".

Or, as they will call it, "mySPC STANdARD NgLiSh". The bolding, underline, and itallics are part of the proper spelling.
 
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