Originally Posted by Threak
ThunderSS from reading the Forum Guidelines you can get away with your most common English grammatical error of ending a sentence with a PREPOSITION. In addition, your first sentence is a fragmented question. These are usually acceptable in verbal speech, but not written speech.Are your shift keys broken? Where in the hell are the capitals at in your sentences?
However, there ain’t no Forum Guidelines for English Grammar on this here website.
(1) Grammatical usage, as you’ve outlined, is more about syntax or style - and many of those finer points can be debated.
(2) Capitalization, on the other hand, is more akin to punctuation, which is seldom ever debated.
(3) One could also argue - due to the very format of our exchanges - that this isn’t really “written” speech, in the truest sense (to be sure, we’re not holding hard copy in our hands). As this forum is without audio capability, I would (loosely) argue that this is more or less “verbal speech.” Ergo, the forms of Standard English don’t necessarily apply (in terms of a terminal preposition).
(4) As you’re probably aware, there are 3 main categories of English - Formal, Standard & Informal(sometimes called “Non-standard” or even “Vulgar”). As you’ve correctly pointed out, Thunder’s usage falls below Formal, whereas you’re glaring punctuation errors fall below Standard.
:)