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[futureguineamom]

My biggest pet peeves on this forum are failure to capitalize the first letter of your sentences, not capitalizing an "I" and using ... or smilies to end a sentence instead of a simple period/full stop (.) and chat speak.

Guilty as charged (more so with the "..." and smilies at the end of a sentence. Whoops!

The reasons for the rules are simple. People come here from all over the world and post. If their native language isn't english and if they can't read the posts easily, they can't get help for their pigs.

I agree completely. Especially if somebody needs to use a translator. How is a word going to translate if it is spelled incorrectly? It isn't. I think there are also some programs out there for blind people that read off what a person types. I'm not too sure though. I know of a few disabled people who can't type, so they speak into a microphone and the computer types for them. I assume there is a similar thing for people who can't see. Good spelling and grammar are important. We all slip up every now and then (I'm sure I already have in this post), but it's the constant errors that are tiresome. Anyway, just my two cents (I get to say that a lot lately don't I?).

[CavySpirit]

I find this remark and feel like I'm in Hitler's rule, never mind school extraordinarily foul and insulting. Don't come back.

[futureguineamom]

I didn't find it very appropriate either, but I wasn't going to say anything.

[The Magic Taco]

Why do I suddenly feel this feeling of Plonkerism?

[Ly&Pigs]

Guilty as charged (more so with the "..." and smilies at the end of a sentence. Whoops!

I mean when members use smilies to end a sentence in place of proper punctuation, not when they put them at the end of a sentence. Here is an example of both.

Hi, how are you (no punctuation at end of sentence, smilie is used to end sentence, unacceptable)
Hi, how are you? (punctuation used then a smilie, acceptable)

[daftscotslass]

This annoys me. Why bother bringing dyslexia into it? I know many people who are dyslexic. Most find it easier using a computer to type. It is often the physical process of converting what is in your head to handwriting on paper. I completely agree with VJ on what she said.

Though I'm sure you're not welcome now, I would love for you (OP) to come back and justify your not-so-choice use of language. I sincerely hope you never say something like that to someone who cares in a real-life situation and have it thrown back in your face. Completely and utterly inappropriate.

If you don't like the rules, make up your own forum.

[ilovpiggiesthei]

i have dyslexia and find it sometimes ahrd to spell read ect on a pc.

[Sabriel]

I had a wonderful art teacher who was dyslexic and left handed. She was my teacher for 4 years! Do you think she got her double major (The arts and modern languages I think) and became head of two departments at one point making excuses all of her life? Heck no.

Other then the occasional backwards slide and her backwards check marks (but that's a lefty thing. I know many lefties do that) you wouldn't even know. The only reason we all knew is that she appologized for putting all the slides in backwards and then told us her problem.

[happimommaof2]

I know I am not the only one who has noticed that the woman who started this thread has not responded at all. Does this seem like a waste of time I mean obviously she wanted a rise out of us. Maybe we should just leave it at that and not be concerend with it anymore. Thats my "2 cents".
Thanks Take Care,
Amanda

[CavySpirit]

Yes, thanks. Enough said on this thread. It's closed.