Does no-one care?

Yes I do care. I dislike poor punctuation and spelling. Enormously long sentences and no paragraphs.

It's fair comment from Gabriella.

This is the place for pedants, and there are threads full to the brim with things that get on peoples (or possibly peoples' nerves)

Mostly people with accents like mine, it seems, because I'm lazy and uneducated, as were my parents.

Can you provide a link to this rambling sans punctuation please OP?

Isn't the comma wrong in the OP?

Very, very wrong

Or perhaps that be very very, wrong

I thought this was pedant's corner, thus one is able to make the sort of comment I posted without being vilified

No, GabriellaG it is Pedants’ Corner

Stones and glasshouses. .

I think it is wrong too.Can you justify it Gabriella ?

“why can't anyone recognise that some just can't spell or have any concept of punctuation”

I believe that’s a question as opposed to a statement and therefore requires a question mark as opposed to a full stop.

No comma needed in OP
#justsaying

Without being vilified but ok to do the same to others ?

SirChenjin Tue 08-Oct-19 21:42:46
“ why can't anyone recognise that some just can't spell or have any concept of punctuation ”

I believe that’s a question as opposed to a statement and therefore requires a question mark as opposed to a full stop.

Actually, I see that example as a rhetorical question, which I don't think requires a question mark.

This is only a social forum so as long as the meaning is clear, 'frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn'. Life's too short.

SpringyChicken…

Oh, maw I was planning to make the glass houses comment!
You beat me to it!

SirChengin, I take back my last comment. Having just looked back at post containing that sentence, I see that it wasn't used rhetorically at all, so you were right.

I should have checked the context properly before commenting!

Sorry - SirChenjin

Is this the right corner to point out that rhetorical questions can have a question mark, a full stop OR an exclamation mark?!

Of course rhetorical questions were named after Rhet the famous Butler who said, 'Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.'

Alima

I agree regarding official documents and poor spelling does jump out at me; however, I refuse to be pedantic about poor grammar because I wonder sometimes if I'm guilty myself.

Since I had a new device I notice that it auto-corrects and I post something grammatically incorrect occasionally.

Feel free to correct me if you wish - live and learn!

Grannsooz I do know people who speak like that, saying brought instead of bought, 'I borrowed him my pen', 'I lent a pen from him', 'hospickal', 'lickal' not little.

Annoying but perhaps people write online as they speak.

Of course, using a spell checker doesn't pick up wrong words in a document as long as they are spelt correctly!

And, of course, as someone has pointed out, dyslexia could be a reason.
There is no spell checker on GN.

Gabriella no, there should not be a comma in the OP unless, of course, the rules have changed.

Many of us do care, GG, but what we are supposed to do about it, when we are certainly not sufficiently ill-mannered to point out other people's mistakes, I really don't know.

I still cringe at the memory of a very 'superior' (in her own estimation) person pointing out on an open writers' forum that someone else had used a Latin phrase incorrectly. I dare say the person would have preferred to know, but why on earth Ms Superior couldn't have sent her a private message I don't know. Except that I do, I suppose - she wanted to make a point about her own superiority.

Oh BradfordLass You are naughty!
There are going to be people out there who believe now that rhetorical questions are named after Rhett Butler!!
For the benefit of anybody who does , here are some boring examples to put them straight
(PS I don’t think OP used one)
Rhetorical Questions
“A rhetorical question is a question for which no answer is expected. A rhetorical question is typically asked to make a point or to introduce a subject.”

A rhetorical question can be used to make a positive point:
What's not to like?
(It's like saying "I like it", which is a statement.)
Who doesn't love pizza?
("I love pizza.")
Wow, who knew?
("This is surprisingly good.")
A rhetorical question can be used to make a negative point:
Does it look like I'm bothered?
("I'm not bothered.")
What is the matter with kids today?
("Kids today have issues")
What have the Romans ever done for us? (from Monty Python's Life of Brian)
("The Romans have done nothing for us.")
Why should you take by force that from us which you can have by love? (from the 1607 speech to white settlers by Chief Powhatan, father of Pocahontas)
("We'd have provided for you if you'd asked nicely.)
And so ad nauseam

I suppose this is a thread about a post ?

Police...where are you?

Some folk on this forum need to get a life. Either that they really dont have much to worry about.