There Is a Reason It Was Invented...

hi...i thought i wuld right a post on how confusing it is when pple right like this and i am buying more gerbils next week...punctuation is very stupid because they're going to be black and white and yellow...do u like snow...guess what...i had to shovel a few days ago...we didn't get the snow blower too work but a neighbor got they're's two chug...........

You know exactly what I was talking about, right? What do you mean it took several times of reading (or at least slow reading) before you could decipher the meanings of all my random phrases/sentences?

Well, after reading several gerbil "business"- related emails--and re-reading--, I came to the conclusion that, yes, it does matter whether you use punctuation, paragraphs, capital letters, and correct homonyms.

The earliest writings had no punctuation, no spaces, and no capitalization. Until the eighteenth century, punctuation was only used for people who were reading aloud. Eventually, however, people become so confused about whether you were talking about the winter or the bear, that punctuation was also used for people who were reading silently to themselves. Whether you're shouting or whispering, you shouldn't have to read things over and over in order to finally grasp the meaning (unless they're writing in a high vocabulary level). Punctuation actually developed dramatically when large numbers of Bibles were being produced. These Bibles were designed to be read aloud, and the copyist began to introduce a range of marks to aid the reader, including indentation, various punctuation marks, and an early version of capitals. Having all this punctuation helped greatly in the clarifying of things written.

Unfortunately, many people have taken to writing everything the "fast, easy" way. Doing this probably actually takes more time to be processed when you think of how much time the recipient of the writing spends reading a single sentence.

Homonyms! Bye, by, buy; to, too, two; there, their; they're; etc. Believe it or not, it does matter whether you use the right homonym or not! Do you have any clue how confusing it is to read something when the writer used the wrong homonym? Very. "Next vacation I'll go with them to by some clam chowder. >:\ It was two bad there car stopped working last trip. "

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There. The lecture for the week. Hopefully somthing more interesting soon.