is it that you simply can't wrap your heads around differences in poster's styles of expression or that, yours is the only way that is right regarding anything at all?
No, it’s that such “rambling stream of consciousness style” tomes
are just too difficult to read. When you get what is essentially one
long, page-length paragraph which is a string of sentences where you
can’t tell where one sentence ends and the next one begins, it’s
just a real struggle to make sense of what the writer is even trying
to say.
Putting a full stop at the end of a sentence, inserting a space,
capitalizing the first word of the next sentence and pressing the
return key twice for a paragraph break takes no extra (or not a
significant amount of extra) time when writing a post, but it makes
all the difference when it comes to ease of reading.
Even my dyslexic daughter uses correct formatting of paragraphs and
sentence construction, and she finds writing English difficult. She
would, however, find it impossible to read the badly formatted posts
that often appear on Orchid, as would those for whom English is a
second language.
Orchid is a wonderful forum and yes it is full of freely-given
but that doesn’t mean that we should be lazy in our
English when responding to people’s queries or offering advice.
Helen Hill
UK
http://www.hillsgems.co.uk
http://helensgems.ganoksin.com/blogs/