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I think this thread was a great idea Joe! A little light humour goes a long way!
The point of all this typing is to communicate and if it can be done using abbreviations, acronyms etc and still get one's meaning across then the essential criteria have been met.
Yes, the 'grammar-police' do need another hobby. I have no issue with things said in jest, but some people do get a bit too serious about things that don't matter, after all, we are mostly discussing our addiction to stargazing.
I doubt that any of us are in the running for a Nobel Prize for Literature.
"Last week I couldn't even spell 'illiterate' now I find I are one!
Come to my tutorials, I'll learn you english!
(Actually English is my second language, being born in Finland with the world's most difficult language to learn, I subsequently had to learn Swedish, Italian, German, Indonesian and English, no doubt grammar was the last thing on my mind)
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