In Reply to: spelling posted by nannamish on Thursday, 17. January 2008 at 06:49 Bali Time:
OK but this is not a verbal Forum as all communication is in written English.
There are rules in written English which most posters obey and that's the way it should be.
Some people don't spell well but that's no reason to write in lower case without punctuation.
You obviously don't think it important and you are perfectly entitled to that view but many can see a beautiful and rich language, which has evolved over hundreds of years to become the number one world language, degenerating into a kid's text language in the space of one generation.
Do the majority really want comic books to be the new classics and the language dumbed down to just a few hundred words written in text? I doubt it and poor old Willy S would turn in his grave!
I freely admit that it's a hobbyhorse of mine but I should be allowed this indulgence as I mean well and it does no harm.