Hey, all. This isn't aimed at anyone in particular. Quick lesson on punctuation. An apostrophe is never used to make a word plural. No exceptions. Looking at the topics in the general section I see the words "era's" and "Rogue's". The plural of era is just eras. The plural of rogue is just rogues. Some people think that to make an acronym plural, like DVD or VCR you use an apostrophe. Not true. The plurals are DVDs and VCRs. If you have this rule down then you have a majority of punctuation problems licked! A moron that writes well looks smart, and a genius that writes poorly looks unintelligent. Know how they say wearing vertical stripes is slimming? Mastering this simple rule will do the same thing for how you look in e-mails and other written communications. It adds 5 or 10 points to your IQ overnight! Thanks.

Are you trying to say VCR's play DVD-s?
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I find the long paragraphs with little use of punctuation and random use of capitals to be far more annoying.

You'd hate American History or reading the Constitution, then; those Colonial-Age paragraphs go on forever! More often than not, a half-page paragraph will be two sentences! I think you'd also hate the German language, because they've decided that it's correct to randomly capitalize certain nouns in their sentences (no offense intended toward Germans, just good humor).


Umm... I hope you're joking, because there's no "rule exception" here; "that's" isn't plural. It's a contraction of "that" and "is." Also, just to clarify, "it's" is a contraction of "it is," and "its" is possessive, not the other way around.

Another lesson: sentences never start with "and," "but," "so," nor any other conjunction, nor with a preposition, unless the preposition starts a dependent clause at the beginning of the sentence. Example: Of the minis I have, that one is the coolest.

Thanks for posting this by the way, bkchi. Not many things annoy me more than poor grammar (you're not doing good, you're doing well!) and poor punctuation ; I don't own a cell phone but, if I did, I would text in full sentences... with punctuation (*gasp*).

"Vosotros" is used like "ustedes." However, this form is primarily only used in Spain. [I took Spanish the past 3 years in high school (unfortunately I didn't have enough room in my schedule for a 4th year this year), and my most recent teacher was actually from Argentina, which was pretty cool.]

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I used to be required to write monthly reports for my Youth Work job relating things to the board of the Church. My shining glory, however, came when I wrote a full-page report that had no punctuation whatsoever... just one long as sentence. They never asked for another report...

Don't get me started on the AA! (That's Automobile Association, right? Those car-driving b*ard-members) (The * is in place of an 'o')

Eat's that!

Sorry Guy's , I'm a perpetrator of all the above mistakes. I will try and Improve though.

I'm not sure why you feel this should be locked, but I believe it should be moved to Off-Topic at this point as it has gathered quite a few responses.

I don't think I've ever seen actual "spam" here, which frankly is a bit surprising.