The Kintyre Forum

ionnsaigh wrote:An wit aboot seriousness - in humour threads.

Ionns, some of us have noted that you are not using a question mark in your sentences when they are clearly needed. Punctuation is a very serious matter and if it doesn't start appearing, I'm off! Please apologise!

My dear girl,
please except my sincerest apologies. Personally I see little point in punctuation - however I won't have a question mark - full stop - come between us. ./,,;;..??'''@'

Thank you Ionns. You must appreciate the extent to which certain standards have to be adhered and lack of punctuation may cause some of us to report you to the mods. I am only acting in your best interests you understand and not acting like some colonial overlord who knows better than the poor, ignorant-of-punctuation people from the old country.

Govangirl wrote:Thank you Ionns. You must appreciate the extent to which certain standards have to be adhered and lack of punctuation may cause some of us to report you to the mods. I am only acting in your best interests you understand and not acting like some colonial overlord who knows better than the poor, ignorant-of-punctuation people from the old country.

I think that it is time to start a punctuation thread.This is a serious idea.I am not attempting to be frivolous so I do hope that no-one takes offence at my first statement.If I have upset any-one on the forum by suggesting another thread then I abjectly and un-reservedly apologise.I would also wish to apologise for apologising.That`s all folks!

FOLK DO REALISE THAT MY PREVIOUS POSTS ON THIS THREAD ARE MEANT TO BE FUNNY AND TONGUE-IN-CHEEK, DON'T THEY????????

Roger, this is a wee 'aside' so be warned that I'm about to go off-thread for a minute - ooh-er missus,we don't allow that - I suspect you might be joking about the possibility of a punctuation thread but maybe not (see Ship, you are exactly right that we often misconstrue humour, this is a perfect example as I REALLY couldn't guess there). I would welcome the idea of a serious thread on punctuation - I'm quite obsessive about it actually (maybe I have OCD issues - or CDO as I like to put it in alphabetical order,the way it should be ) and care very much about the loss of it in our society today. So I might actually start one off as a new topic. Would that be ok with you?

Shouldn`t that be capital O full stop,capital K full stop?

No. Quite simply, no. So that's you banned from The Punctuation Thread already Roger!!!!!!!

I beg to differ.Surely O.K.is an abbreviation and should therefore be punctuated?

I would love to learn.

FFS, you lot are going off topic already. This humour is serious stuff and you need to stick to it The whole bloody universe is unraveling now - I can feel its essence just seeping away......

Malky

I think that it is time to start a punctuation thread.

And speling.

LANDROVER ROGER wrote:I beg to differ.Surely O.K.is an abbreviation and should therefore be punctuated?

Roger, would I question your authority on Landrover exhaust-thingies?

Please take my word for it. It is OK, believe me. And taking your own signature at the bottom of your posts - 'Trust me, I'm an English teacher' - there is never a full stop between letters of the same word. Do you put D.r. or R.e.v.d. or c.m. or e.t.c. or even s.t.
So why ok????? Okthen? Ok? Ok?

Govangirl wrote:

LANDROVER ROGER wrote:I beg to differ.Surely O.K.is an abbreviation and should therefore be punctuated?

Roger, would I question your authority on Landrover exhaust-thingies?

Please take my word for it. It is OK, believe me. And taking your own signature at the bottom of your posts - 'Trust me, I'm an English teacher' - there is never a full stop between letters of the same word. Do you put D.r. or R.e.v.d. or c.m. or e.t.c. or even s.t.
So why ok????? Okthen? Ok? Ok?

Is he not referring to Opportunity Kintyre?

No, he was picking up on my use of the word ok. However, if it WAS Opportunity Kintyre, then it would be an initialism and therefore must be written in capitals with no full stops - as in OK.

And it should have been in another thread....

Malky