Grammar in posts (Was: What comics did you buy today?)

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Re: Grammar in posts (Was: What comics did you buy today?)

Post by swirlythingy »

Phoenix wrote:
Raven wrote:(The Return - or Enter - key is quite simply the key that takes you onto the next line for you to continue there.)
I have one of those, and I use it regularly, but not regularly enough, apparently.
Your last few posts have been written in a clearer style, especially the longest one, so I thank you for making the correction.
Phoenix wrote:
Raven wrote:I didn't think he meant intellectually difficult to follow - just visually difficult, if it's a big, unbroken paragraph. I may have misinterpreted, though.
Intellectually or visually, I'm sorry but I don't accept that Swirly finds any difficulty whatsoever.
I meant purely visually, in that without paragraphs I have trouble keeping track of my place, and since I am so easily distracted, if I cannot scan through the first couple of words of every paragraph to judge whether or not I have already read it, the length of time required for me to finish reading a post increases dramatically.

This post provides an excellent example. I remember when reading it for the first time, I resorted to Phoenix's habit of writing comic titles in bold as a kind of substitute paragraph break, and kept track of my position in the text relative to the point about halfway down where he referred to The Dandy.
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Re: Grammar in posts (Was: What comics did you buy today?)

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Did you notice that the following poster, in that quoted thread, made an apology directly to you? Did you give an apology in return?

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Re: Grammar in posts (Was: What comics did you buy today?)

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Topic locked. It's really going nowhere.

Everyone has made their point. Let's leave it there.

I thank you.

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