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The Internet sometimes feels like the battleground for the grammarians and the punctuation misusers. On one side of the field, you have the grammarians insisting that writing is writing, and a missing comma can cause just as much confusion in a blog post or tweet as it could cause in other settings. On the other side of the field, you have the punctuation misusers who insist that with only 140 characters to use in Twitter, they're not going to use up one on punctuation.
Let the battle begin!
Magnet for Foolishness has a great post about this, lamenting the fact that when people don't use correct punctuation or grammar in their blog posts or Tweets, it comes across as a lack of care; as if blog posts and Tweets are not as important as other forms of writing where we take the time to cross our T's and dot our I's.
I’ve been told before that I should lighten up but it’s hard for me to do so because there are so many built-in tools to help us achieve spelling and punctuation greatness! Besides running a deliberate spell check, we have the unignorable red and green squiggly lines, the auto-correct feature (which I recognize can sometimes do more harm than good), and the ability to engage in some plain, old-fashioned proofreading of stuff yourself.
Which side of the field are you on? Do you stand with the grammarians who beg you to add in those commas, or do you stand with the punctuation misusers who admit that they can't give up one of their 140 characters for something superfluous?
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