I think it's a recurring theme of the magazine to have an article about elements of writing, and punctuation was already being discussed so it made sense to put it in the mag.

cause split has an adderall prescription obv

who would you have voted for, D, if you don't mind me asking?

no need

sometimes writers are subtle, if you read academic literary criticism you'd see how

Case in point: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps...Landles10.html

I think educating people here, maybe 10% of what you throw at them sticks unless they're learning on their own

Imo it makes you a better writer

I'd be lying through my teeth if I said I didn't pop a max legal strength Concerta before writing that mag

If the mistake is clearly intentional or the writer is using slang it doesn't bother me, but if it's clear the mistake has arisen through the writer's lack of knowledge I do tend to look down on it a tad. Commas or lack or them to help the reader catch the flow are OK with me too.

Eg:

"ur verse trash dawg" instead of "your verse is trash, dog" is fine by me, but "you're verse trash dawg" isn't.

would like to add: if you vote like this in the league you will be permabanned

@sraL: My stance on this issue (punctuation and grammar) is found scattered around the LGPA mag and chat:

Also word @Dominate with the ''your'' & ''you're'' shit. Without further adieu I'm ending the post with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32p8d6OudgU

PUNCHuations Tourny

lol

Jesus i dont know how des got lars to des tho

Des learning to throw his voice

Textriliquisim

Take notes my gs

This is the next evolution of text battlers

I think it matters more in topical than text battling. There is a lot of Hip Hop slang, so using that in text is fine. It has to make some sense though.

grammar is immensely important
punctuation is worthless

had no idea lars made this thread

only because

all his threads tend to begin with "LMAO"

this one didn't

Its never been important to me unless the shit was totally butvhered. I believe i misspellings so that the word be pronou ced AS ITS WRITTEN to coincide with syllable matchibg and arrangement. Also to give a more slang feel and hiphop vibe to what im writing. After all. This is hiphop were talking about. Not fucking poetry and haikus and shit. What i write is meant to portray what you would hear in a cypher on a street corner or at a playground or ballcourt with a group of street sense type of hiphop lovers. So in my opinion. Punctuation and grammar are not important and should not be cause to frown upon someones work.... unless its sooo bad with mispellings that whats been written is hard to understand. Then yes. It becomes important.. but ibthink as writers and as people of intelligencewe should all know and understand when and why that line between both exists.

lol no. punctuation can inform grammar. they're unequivocally intertwined.

even in the stricter linguistic sense for grammar, which i don't think you mean, structure is a focal point.

my first post shows how a single comma can change the meaning of an ostensibly identical phrase considerably, albeit with two homonyms, but still. to say one is worthless and the other vital doesn't work when they co-exist. ultimately we all write here, so however much we think our pengame relates to the aural, we're initially reading (not hearing).

punctuation can be used to do some clever shit. punctuation can also be misused to do some clever shit (word to whoever posted e.e. cummings). but here, on this forum, i think punctuation/grammar matter only as much as each individual (writing or critiquing) wants it to: it's their right - fuck prescribing to another's values.

so yea you're dumb. no i haven't read the battle.

so basically need mba in english in order to vote now

is what ya' saying?

Know nigha bout doe yu wina reed a hole virse lick tghis?

yeah bro

that's what he's saying. you got it.

what's your address? let me mail you this here mba in reading comprehension

Lol