THE OFFICIAL NETCEES "HOW IMPORTANT IS GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION IN TEXT?" THREAD

[Witty]

Originally Posted by sraL

Why the need for the whole magazine article that followed though?

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.

[dead man]

Originally Posted by sraL

Why the need for the whole magazine article that followed though?

cause split has an adderall prescription obv

[Destroyer]

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

[Split Eight]

Originally Posted by sraL

Why the need for the whole magazine article that followed though?

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

[Split Eight]

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

[Dominate]

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.

[Split Eight]

Originally Posted by Dr Dog

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cummings/Landles10.html

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

[Objective]

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

Originally Posted by Objective

The voting and criteria in a poetry league shouldn't be the same as in a topical or any other battle and I'm going to continue to put certain things higher than others (such as punctuation in this particular league whereas I could give less of a fuck in a topical and even non-existent in a battle) and put shit to light if I think there's places the piece could be improved.

Originally Posted by Objective

It [punctuation] matters to me because it seems more refined and polished. The way the poem is supposed to be read translates so much better and it just gives an overall better feel to me. But I’d only put grammar and punctuation up against each other if I couldn’t choose who to vote on as a last deciding factor to my vote.

Originally Posted by Objective

... I definitely do not let punctuation be a determining factor unless the battle is so incredibly close I have to nitpick on the smallest of things just to find something where someone might have an edge over the other. ... I try to let my votes be as to the point and harsh as possible because nowadays a lot of people have reached a certain level the nitpicking is almost (or close to) the only things left they can improve on

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

[Amen.]

Originally Posted by Hush

LOL at its important spell shit right
aight bet
lets cancel all these leagues and just hold a spelling b k?

or maybe we just do a words with friends tournament instead

PUNCHuations Tourny

lol

[Inno]

Jesus i dont know how des got lars to des tho

[Ghost1]

Des learning to throw his voice

Textriliquisim

Take notes my gs

This is the next evolution of text battlers

[Tic]

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.

[Destroyer]

grammar is immensely important
punctuation is worthless

[Amen.]

had no idea lars made this thread

only because

all his threads tend to begin with "LMAO"

this one didn't

[Geno]

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.

[Eŋg]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

grammar is immensely important
punctuation is worthless

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.

[Amen.]

so basically need mba in english in order to vote now

is what ya' saying?

[Inno]

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

[dead man]

Originally Posted by Dre

so basically need mba in english in order to vote now

is what ya' saying?

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

[Amen.]

Lol