QUESTION MARK, DAMMIT!
Do you know what a question is. Do you understand how to indicate a question to someone else. Have you ever heard of a question mark. Did you ever go to an English class in school. Or are you just stupid.
QUESTIONS END IN QUESTION MARKS, DAMMIT!!!
::deep breath::
I feel better now.
What are you trying to say.
(d&r, fast)
Jesus, what’s your problem.
Question Mark who?
this reminds me of my roommate in college who was mad that I was ‘playing euchre too loud’ and came into the living room and said:
“I have a question…I’m always quiet when you’re trying to study”
and that was all.
Still waiting on that question of hers.
That would be “…and the Mysterions.”
Are you just trying to increase your post count.
Is this rant about someone who doesn’t use question marks as punctuation, or is it about someone who doesn’t know how to phrase things in the form of a question when speaking to you.
That’s why I chimed in. Not that I’m mortally offended, but there is the outside chance that the OP was directed at me, or at least that I might be in the group of posters to whom the OP was directed.
The thing is – I know all about grammar and spelling and punctuation, but I still fuck it up half the time. – especially ?'s. I don’t know why, but ?'s exist in some sort of ionization blackout space for me. I miss them more often than not.But, fuck it, I’m not writing a term paper here.
On the other hand, getting all knicker-twisted because someone pisses on me for it doesn’t solve anything either.
I’m often guilty of this in my first draft of whatever I’m writing? But I usually catch this and make corrections upon proofreading?
Oooh, just wait until Vinnie Virginslayer gets in here. He’ll show you all what a question mark looks like.
Heh. Sorry, y’all. It’s just that as I was reading the boards today I kept finding posts with questions without question marks. Once, twice, three times, I overlook it. Fourth time, I start to notice it. Every one after that just annoys me more. Couldn’t tell you who it was in each case but it just started to build on me. It’s a pretty basic form of punctuation, it’s not like a missed comma or something, so you’d think people would realize that the question mark goes there.
And as I was writing my OP I kept think of ? and the Mysterios…
AIEEE!
It’s “Mysterians.”
Hmph.
Whoops… my bad.
Good god, I just said “my bad.” I’m going to have to slap myself.
Oww; cut it out! What are you people trying to do me? It must be something weird about the way I read (and I don’t if it’s this bad for you, racinchikki), but missing question marks or misplaced apostrophes actually hurt me. I’m reading along nicely, and BAM! my brain hits one of these potholes and it hurts my head.
You left the comma out of this sentence.
And the reverse verbal equivalent - ending statements with that rising interrogative, or whatever the heck it’s called:
“Hi, my name is Bambi?”
“I like to watch soap operas?”
AAAAGGGGHHH! Are you asking me if your name is Bambi? Are you looking for confirmation here? Do I need to check your driver’s license for you?
(No offense intended to anybody named Bambi.)
I apologize for any pain that caused. Evidently, I’m not bothered by missing words that also appear elsewhere in the sentence.
This one time. At band camp.
Should be: Do you know what a question is**?** Do you understand how to indicate a question to someone else**?. Have you ever heard of a question mark?** Did you ever go to an English class in school**?[b/] Or are you just stupid**?**
I’m sure that was intentional, but I enjoyed it either way.
PS Can someone tell me why my coding did not work on this post? Looks right to me, but did not post right. Weird.