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I was expecting this thread to start with "Warning, Warning"...

Interesting...

As annoying as overused punctuation marks are.........................and I do find them quite annoying............they're preferable to the e c cummings prose style favoured by some posters; a style that is particularly common in text messages and emails from one of my closest friends who along with poor grammar and terrible spelling likes to chain together long sentences often inserting subclauses and conditional clauses without any helpful punctuation to assist the reader in making sense of his ramblings do any of you have any friends who do this every time i get an email from him i have to read it as though he is reading it aloud to make any sense of it and even then they often contain ambiguities that could be easily rectified with a little judicial use of a comma or a fullstop

or the threads asking whether they can achieve a goal?

like can i run a mara in 2:30?

AgentGinger wrote (see)

As annoying as overused punctuation marks are.........................and I do find them quite annoying............they're preferable to the e c cummings prose style favoured by some posters; a style that is particularly common in text messages and emails from one of my closest friends who along with poor grammar and terrible spelling likes to chain together long sentences often inserting subclauses and conditional clauses without any helpful punctuation to assist the reader in making sense of his ramblings do any of you have any friends who do this every time i get an email from him i have to read it as though he is reading it aloud to make any sense of it and even then they often contain ambiguities that could be easily rectified with a little judicial use of a comma or a fullstop

what a fool i've been. i obviously meant e e cummings.

Whats a ticket Millsy, are you refering to a spare place or race number

Whats an apostrophe, Tommygun2? 

I always look forward to a bit of M-Bingo in the run-up to the London Marathon, with lots of discussions about accomodation and using Immodium.

As someone who's guilty of overuse of ellipses, I must confess that I've always thought that it was OK to finish a senrice with one, without the need for a period.  Much the same as using a ? or !

Seems like I was wrong...

Or actually....

But I don't like that, it looks wrong!

40 minutes wrote (see)

As someone who's guilty of overuse of ellipses, I must confess that I've always thought that it was OK to finish a senrice with one, without the need for a period.  Much the same as using a ? or !

Seems like I was wrong...

Or actually....

But I don't like that, it looks wrong!

 

Hello you, I've just told Cole we're running tomorrow and he's happy.

Sussex Runner (NLR) wrote (see)

I think we all know who should read that. I found the over use of the ...........off putting to a point where I barely read her posts at all.

I wasn't actually thinking of that person this time, but yes, I can't follow it either.