Re: Terrible, Awful, No-good, Very Bad...spelling?
Oh, I hate that lack of punctuation too, especially when using a screen reader. I can't seem to process what the person is saying as well, and often find that I need to either slow down my speech, scroll through the mess of a sentence/post/what have you word by word, or both. I've always associated lack of punctuation with laziness to a point, and it sucks that I have to work twice as hard to make the effort to understand what the person is saying as they put into trying to get their point across.
As for writing in complete sentences, I do the same thing, and I hate it if I forget to capitalize something. The only time I get sloppy with this is in fast-paced games. I admit that I often don't put punctuation at the end of my messages then, and it does bother me. I also find myself making more spelling mistakes, simply because I'm typing fast so as not to hold up the game, or if I'm in the middle of a game and need to be quick with whatever message I'm sending. What usually happens is that two letters get swapped around or something, and I'll correct it as soon as I can in a separate message. I've often wondered if people notice that as well, but I try to console myself with the fact that we're all playing and presumably having fun, so I hope no one is actually paying that much attention. But, on Skype, or any other text-based medium where I'm talking to someone, I'm very conscious of how I present myself, and I've always had this weird idea that writing in complete sentences, and using proper punctuation to the best of my ability, shows that I'm invested in the conversation, and that I care about the person I'm speaking to. To me, it's akin to eye contact, which of course is the bane of every blind person's existance, or active listening, where you show that you're engaged in the conversation and that the other person has your full attention. I feel that if I'm making a bunch of careless mistakes, I come off as distracted, or worse, that I don't want to hear what you're saying. I get that I'm definitely in the minority with those views, but it's how I've done things for a very long time. When I was a teenager, I went through a phase where I thought it was cool to not use punctuation, particularly on AIM back when it was the king of instant messaging systems. I would deliberately not use any capital letters, and would strategically sneak in a spelling mistake or two, I couldn't quite bring myself to stoop to the level of spelling tons of things wrong. I thought everyone else was doing it because it was the in thing to do or something, but, in reality, I think most people just weren't that great of spellers anyway. Luckily, I quickly grew out of that. It was quite a stupid thing to do, looking back on it.
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